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China Ancient Trip, Day 1-2: Hong Kong

I wuz here, HK airport!
We went for a holiday to China between October 18-28, 2013. Our holiday often will visit at most 3 cities where we will be staying at least two nights in each place. Historic sites, museums, landmark and so are places that not only do we visit, we will explore the best possible given that we have the opportunity to be there. As being said, tourists take pictures, the travelers keep the memories.. :P
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We landed at Chek Lap Kok airport in the late Friday evening, The flight MH432 to Hong Kong took nearly 4 hours, and it has the same time zone in Malaysia, No jet lag or whatsoever, but we still feel the fatigue of travel. Anyhow, brisk immigration procedure at the HK airport made things easier. We had booked in advanced a round trip Vigor's shuttle bus that cost HKD $103 for 3 persons. The ride crossed the Lantau Island and Kowloon before reaching the Hong Kong island.

It was raining heavily at KLIA, I had a lasagna and a cup of coffee
The hotel's front desk was so glittering
The room was rather cramped for three of us. Considering its location to the city center and nearby Hong Kong's MTR subway station, the Best Western hotel wasn't bad at all. We had to walk to the Sheung Wan station about 25 minutes, and it'd be interesting if we can truly blend with the locals.

Am I lost?
It was early in the morning, but seems like MRT station not so busy
On our way to the HK tower!
HK may be geographically small, but seeing it all in one day is tough. Kowloon itself has so many things to do/visit, and so we only managed to explore the central city only. Obviously, we give a pass to HK Disneyland. Really hope that we can make a come back and have a day trip to Macau.

We had purchased in advance, the 3-in-1 combo tickets costed HKD $778 that includes entrance to Madame Tussauds and Sky Terrace 428, as well as the Peak Tram return tickets. We were so lucky, it was a long queue at the ticket counter. It saves us a lot of times!

Bank of China Tower, a.k.a HK tower
The lower Terminus of the Peak Tram
Woohoo... what a long queue!
It is something like Bukit Bendera rides
Upon arriving at the peak tower station, Nu'man refused to get into the Madame Tussauds once he saw Bruce Lee's wax figure. Oh boy... It's just a real-like mannequin! Over 100 wax figures were exhibited and each one looks so real. At least, there were at least two kids zone like kung-fu zone and fantasy zone. And then we spent almost until noon at the Peak Galleria and the 428 Sky Terrace. It is the highest viewing platform.. the panoramic view across the Hong Kong was simply splendid!


At least Nu'man was smiling at Kids zone
It looks like a pot, does it?
The Peak Galleria
It was a Halloween season!
Looking for a better view...
I love you!


Stunning view from the top
Touted as the longest people mover in the world, the Mid-Level escalators runs down to the lower part of the Victoria Peak. We gave a chance to walk down starting from the neighborhood and found mane souvenirs shop and food stall along that way. The central Mid-Level escalators runs downhill for 800 metres. There were several galleries on Stanton street that we skipped, but we did stop at the Jamia mosque to rest.

This was at the central Mid-Level
The best way to burn your calories!



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