I think i mentioned already that there is a timedifference between Austria and Hong Kong. It is 6 hours later. Therefore at 4 o clock in the night we are totally awake but at 11 in the morning deep deep asleep. It happend as foreseen we totally overslept on day 3. We woke up at 2:30 Hong Kong time!! Consequently half of the day has had already past. Therefore we needed an activity that would not need a whole day's time.
After all your suggestions we decided to see the giant metal outdoor Buddha. This huge Buddha statue is located at an island close to the main island of Hong Kong in between hills and montains. It can either be reached by cable care (tourist way = tourist price) or bus. Before we arrived there I suggested to hike up there (because: sports + cheap + fresh air + the way of suffering is supposed to lead to Buddha [and in that case actually does]) this idea was stricly declined by Fabian and after I saw the path from the cable car I was happy about it. To treat ourselves we went for the cable car uphill but downhill by bus! As we kind of overslept we arrived rather late and saw the huge Buddha in the final sunrays of the day.
I was quite surprised to find out that this Buddha is not an ancient thing that was built by slaves with their bare hands but by the modern Chinese with cranes and building machines!!! The Chinese figured that they are slowly running out of outdoor Buddha statues and therefore they decided that it was time to stock up!!!
Giant Buddha in Lantau!
Close to the huge Buddha there is a nice temple which we visited as well. Afterwards we decided to go for some enjoyment = going out in Soho. This is supposed to be the best partying area in Hong Kong. If you know the Soho in New York or London, you are full of expectations and crazy hopes. Unfortunately those won t be satisfied in Hong Kong. This "crazy" party area offers a couple of bars and quite a few eat and drink restaurants (quite stylish) but not exactly crazy (i would rather say a little posh). Apart from that basically only European Expats are hang out there, trying to reproduce some home memory from mostly good old England :-)
Ahhhh sorry i forgot about the food: by the time we came back from Buddha heading for Soho, i sort of died from hunger, which could be felt by my declining spirit and mood. Therefore we had to pop into a small Hong Kong Street kitchen..... can be good, but doesn t have to be. This time unfortunately the latter. I had "Fish Ball Soup" !!!! hmmmm round thingymees made of fish-something. Felt like Cautchuk (rubber) but tasted hmmmm different... though not too nice. Fabi was and is still dying for some rice. After 3 days in Hong Kong we did not yet manage to have some rice!!! Everything is either served in a soup or with noodles. Fabi = not happy !!!
Okay day number 4:
today we decided to visit the OCEAN PARK!!!! yyeaahh absolutely cool!!! rollercoasters, giant pandas, dolphines and whiskers show, many different kind of fish and birds, cable car again and a train adjusted to the theme. I really liked it. We did some really horrible rollercoaster rides. I certainly do not care for those things but had to join as Fabi only enjoys it if a girl is panicly screeming into his ear :-)
Pandas are cute, dolphines and whiskers super smart + cute. Below i have put a foto of all the Asians in the stadium = massive!!!!! ups i haven t done so, acutally i put one of me and fabi in the raging river! anyway the other foto just shows loads of asians in a stadium!
Fabi and me in the Ocean Park riding the raging river!
After 7 hours in the themepark we were quite tired and decided to take the bus home. At that point you could really see that Hong Kong was occupied by the british: Thousands (well many...) of people were waiting for the same bus.. but totally organised in a perfectly formed queue!!! If one would jump the queue or be out of line, a supervisor would immediately take actions :-)
Okay finally arrived at the metro station ready to take the metro: this one is especially for you sara!!!! I arrive at the platform and what do i see? Millions of Asian who AGAIN queue in front of the gates of the metro to enter the metro. I had to wait for 4 trains until i could finally bord it, as there were soo many of them. Pls Sara check the picture of the crowd!
Crowds waiting for the metro in line!!!
Tomorrow we are going to Wuhan! That is going to be impressive as we will be officially entering China (were according to stories English-speaking people are very scare)! We have found a hostel, called pathfinder hostel (scout hostel) which fits perfectly as i have been 12 years a member of the scouts. To direct the taxi driver i took already a photo of google maps (which is partly in mandarin). Let s hope it will work!!!!!
Okay my last words from Hong Kong: I) really loved it here! Amazing place, lots of things to do, quite international but with Asian flair!! Anybody who has ever the chance to visit, pls do so!!!!! If you get the chance to be an expat in HK with good salary and driver.... pack your bags immediatly!!!!
With love from Hong Kong
Astrid and Fabian
Skyline of main island taken from Kowloon, taken from the walk of stars in HK main island
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