30-31.03 How Hong Kong won me over
Hanoi had been great. I loved the place and the party. I was sleep deprived yet feeling fully revived. China was next on the list and I was excited; how massive would the language barrier be? I added a stop-over at Hong Kong at the last minute. The city somehow had not appealed to me when I was planning my tour but I thought to give it 24 hours. And OMG, how wrong can a person be; Hong Kong is terrific!
It wasn’t love at first sight though, because my hostel was not at the place it was supposed to be. I hear you [the guys] already think ‘yeah, that’s a typical women’s issue (and I gracefully admit that my map reading skills have been an issue on several occasions…) but please take into account that I was lost at 10 PM at night, in an unknown country, in a wrenched area, with no data on my phone, not speaking their language and them not speaking any of mine, and all the hostel’s phone numbers that I had were somehow out of service. Now that is a recipe for disaster. But help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it, so I managed. I rushed to my room which was, ehhmm…. petite. I had never guessed that 4 m2 can accommodate 9 people plus luggage – but yes, it can 🙂
I headed straight to the Ritz Carlton. This hotel hosts HK’s highest viewpoint which happens to be a bar, one of the trendiest in town. How lucky is that? I ordered a Mohito -my favorite and their signature cocktail- and got the tastiest fluid ever. Most expensive ever too; 25 euro for a half glass. Worth every cent and the view was amazing!
My time was limited so I got up at 7 AM to ‘do a city the Chinese way’. Camera ready, I jumped on the hop on/off bus, clicked hundreds of pics and got efficiently dropped at the entrance of all memorable places enabling me to see it all, or at least which I thought worthwhile… In 122 hours, I managed the star ferry, the maritime museum, the Peak, touring arround the sky scrapers and the seaside and its lovely bays and walked in some famous areas such as Soho and the escalator area.
My excursion ended with dim sum, Hong Kong’s famous food (Claire!). Mouth watering and delicious. I guess that’s where it happened; Hong Kong had won me over. Fully. Oh how I wished I could have postponed my flight!
