This post is several days late, day 4 is December 19, 2010. We slept until 3am today, yeah! Our night manager (we see him a lot since we are either touring or asleep during the day) recommended a restaurant that is close, cheap and serves American breakfast. We had French toast, eggs, chicken hot dogs and ramen in broth. Noodles and rice porridge (congee) are incredibly common for breakfast.
We visited Victoria Peak. The #1 attraction in Hong Kong according to Fordor’s. We rode the tram up to the peak which offered a spectacular view of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Victoria Harbor.
Afterwards we took a taxi to Mo Man Temple. It was so interesting!
The haze is from all the incense smoke!
Spirals of incense constantly burning!
Offerings of incense, fruit and meat are made. The temple was full of locals praying and offering.
We walked the streets and stumbled upon a local market.
The produce is amazing, huge and robust. I’ve never seen produce like this at HEB. Note the meat just hanging, especially the goat in the background. Tons of fresh and dried fish, shellfish, octopus etc.
Yeah, they love their suckling pig here!
We then rode the escalators up (terrain is steep like San Fran) the escalators give everyone much better access to the steeper streets/shops.
We transported ourselves to the train station via 2 taxi’s. Went through Hong Kong customs and boarded the train which was similar to herding cattle on the train when headed to market. Crazy! We had all our luggage because we didn’t understand that luggage consignment meant check your bags! After going through Chinese customs again with body to body crowds, our guide Helen (may I add St. Helen) met us at the airport with a hotel shuttle. She ordered Papa John’s pizza for us which tasted just like home! She gave us a briefing of our schedule for tomorrow and got us checked in our hotel. We get Maggie in less than 24 hrs!
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