After last night’s slight detour we got up and checked out of our hotel around midday (another shout out to Shamrock Hotel for saving our skins) and headed straight to our new home for the next 5 nights on Hong Kong Island.
The undergrounds and trams here are pretty efficient and cheap, and the trams in particular are a good way to see bits of the city as you jerk through.
As soon as we’d gotten ourselves re-situated we headed out to properly explore the city for the first time.
Hong Kong seems completely different by day than by night and it’ll be fun to explore more of both, although it’ll inevitably lead to more being lost, which has become more of a comfortable norm for us anyway.
Speaking of which we also managed to find some green spaces amongst the hustle and bustle.
The markets and small shops are a sight in themselves and we could spend so much time going round them and still not see everything.
We also managed to stumble upon the Man Mo Temple, a beautiful tribute to the God of Literature (Man) and the God of War (Mo).
This is definitely somewhere I’m glad we found and it’s absolutely worth a visit.
There were a bit of mix between people there to worship (us) and those who were just a bit nosey, although we tried to pay our respects. There were also a few people doing routine upkeep on the temple, it seems to require a much more trained hand than the usual janitorial gig.
Once we were incensed out our next stop was a spot of lunch, perhaps it’s a homing beacon but apparently we can find avocado toast anywhere in the world.
Refuelled, we continued on our journey to Nowhere in Particular and found ourselves on the travelator up the mountain. It gives good views of the street and a quick way to get to a new part of the city without actually having to walk up a hill, funny that.
An ever present feature in Hong Kong is construction and possibly the most noteworthy things is the scaffolding. We all know it’s bamboo, but guys; it’s bamboo
Coming up is another Green Interlude as we also happened upon Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens where we walked around some more green.
We decided to walk back down (because gravity helps with that bit) and head to Victoria Harbour for our last stop of the day.
Today was a great glimpse into the city and everything it has to offer. We look forward to trying to squeeze in as much as we can over the next few days!
Hatti x
What an amazing place Hong Kong looks X good job they have plenty of bamboo 😂
It certainly gets everywhere here! Plenty of food for pandas 🙂 x
Wow! Fantastic views. And well you know what they say about bamboo 🙂 Spreads fast…..