Wednesday, October 24, 2012

planes, trains, and automobiles

over columbus day weekend, a friend and i took a quick trip to hong kong.  it's only a 2.5 hour flight from Okinawa so we were able to go for a long weekend without too much time traveling.  we made the most of our time time there.  

we took a ridiculous number of kinds of transportation.  we walked (and walked and walked), rode a bus, took the subway, rode the ferry, took a tram, took a cable car, rode a train, rode on rickshaw, took a plane, and rode in taxis.

here is a rundown of our trip:

went to hong kong museum of history. 




shopped a ton at flea markets.

had afternoon tea at the peninsula.

got a foot massage.





went to temple street night market and ate fresh steamed crab.

took the star ferry to hong kong island.

took the tram to victoria's peak


went man mo temple.

ate at lin gueng tea house.

walked the tsim sha tsui promonade/avenue of stars.

got a foot massage  at a very questionable salon and ate mcdonalds.





lds temple and church

went to lantau island, saw big buddha, and went to min lo monestary



took a ferry to macau, ate at clube militar de macau, took a rickshaw ride









we had a really busy but really fun trip.  i'm exited for my next adventure!

3 comments:

  1. Wow! You fit a lot in in a long weekend!

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  2. I love the pix of you and the two dudes that are wearing what I will call turtle shells! Awesome!

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  3. You can do so many things in a few days! I am happy you visit our Night Market at Temple Street. I am searching for bloggers who have visit and enjoy our market as we are proud of it. It is a real part of Hong Kong that is not spoil by making it too "clean"! I am making a web site to help to explain why Temple Street Night Market is special for Hong Kong. I hope you can mention it in your blog one day so that your reader can know about it if they visit HK as well. Thank you very much.

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