Sunday, July 15, 2007

quickie from hong kong!

have been in this HOT & HUMID city for almost 2 days now, and will be for another day before i fly home (!!!) tomorrow night.

my room here is tiny, but that's normal for hong kong standards. same with the bathroom, if i'm having a shower my toilet and sink are also completely wet that's how tiny it is haha!
during the day it's about 35C here, but the humidity is the thing that makes this heat k-i-l-l-i-n-g, keep running in & out of shops & shopping malls to escape the heat, luckily that's not a problem here.

so what have i been doing here?
well, yesterday i took the star ferry to hong kong island, my guesthouse is on the other city island called kowloon, wandered around there and then took the peak tram up to...the peak, the highest point on hong kong island from where you have a great view over the city.
today i went outside of town to visit the big buddha and accompanying buddhist temple, pretty cool (even though it was even hotter there than in the city)!
tonight i'm going to one of the night markets here in kowloon, tomorrow i'm gonna try to get up early to find some old chinese man in the park doing their daily tai chi routine, after that i'm going to find more buddha's...about 10.000 of them!
then at night it's the bus back to the airport, a 12 1/2 hour flight and i'll be back in amsterdam by tuesday morning :D

will post pix of hong kong next week!

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