Hong Kong

We took our first trip over to Hong Kong this morning and jumped on a tram that heads nearly all of the way up to the top of one of the mountains on the island. The view of the city and victoria bay was incredible from the top of the observation deck as you can see from the picture. It seemed a little strange to me but a large area of the island doesn’t have anything on it, the majority of the buildings are on the north side across from the Mong kok area which is a little less spectacular but still has it’s charm. You can certainly tell the difference that years of British rule had on the island compared to the mainland.

Later in the day we looked a little more indepth into our travel plans to get up to Lhasa, it’s a little hard to get the straight facts from anyone here so it’s a little frustrating sometimes. Luckly we have heard from some people that getting into Tibet is a little easier than it’s made out to be sometimes. Hopefully their right! Now were hiding in our room trying to get away from the crowds, somewhere in our building is a recording studio that blares music all day until around 10 so we’ve been trying to stay away as much as possible. Thankfully tonight it’s pretty quiet so were taking advantage of it and relaxing.

Mike

Moving around…

So yesterday we just a bit of a relaxing day, moving from one hostel to another and not really doing any sightseeing. We like the hostel that we’re in right now, but I don’t think we’ll stay in it again. For one, there’s no wireless, and when you have a laptop you like to be able to access it anywhere. Two, they charge you for pretty much everything here – it costs money to take a shower and to use the stove! How ridiculous is that? There seem to be a lot of places to stay in this area though, so we might go check them out today.

We’re thinking about wandering around the area that we’re staying in right now today, there’s some shrines and a toy museum and there might be some sort of outdoor market in our area today. Nothing too much else to write about right now but hopefully we’ll put something else up tonight!

Carolyn