Getting to the Philippines can be a pain in the butt. Any way that we tried to arrange it, we were stuck with some kind of lengthy stopover… With our plane tickets, it really didn’t make a difference if we stopped over for 2 hours or 2 days (exact same cost)… so we figured we might as well check out this little town called Hong Kong along the way. Hong Kong is a great town. It’s super walkable (or escalatorable for the hills), and is pretty compact as the city is hemmed in between Victoria Harbor and the very steep Victoria Peak. We stayed across the harbor in the Kowloon district which is where most of the shops and stuff where. Staying across the water was definitely the way to go, as the views across to Hong Kong island are pretty awesome. The city skyline is pretty recognizable from this perspective, especially at night where the Bank of China building lights up in its distinct lattice of interlinked triangles and the IFC building claws skyward to Victoria Peak. Our main goal here however was to sample some local Chinese food… as I declared to Keith over the phone last week. Keith was a bit skeptical about my proclamation: “Mosko, you can’t fly to Hong Kong for a day just to have Dim Sum!” Ah, but you can Keith! All of the “sightseeing” stuff is just an elaborate pretext for a fantastic brunch. Nothing wrong with that.
Check out our pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/richmosko/HongKong
and here is the location of Hong Kong on the Map.
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