Day 5 Hong Kong and Macau
5 Jan 2007 could be one of my most adventurous mission so far. I woke up at 7am, had my breakfast on HKUST canteen and started my trip at around 8am. Brought along the Hong Kong map (you really need to carry one along if you wish to travel around. Unless you can speak the Cantonese dialect well. English and Mandarin is not very common among the Hong Kong folks although some can speak). I spent some time at the HKUST bus stop because I wasn’t sure which bus to take. There’s bus 11, 11S and 11M. In the end, after some analysing, I took the green minibus-11 from campus to the nearest MTR (Hang Hau station). One of the reason I kicked off my day early because I want to join in the morning rush hour in Hong Kong. Trust me, you wouldn’t really want to be in one of the crowds. The train is super pack, especially the Hong Kong Island Line. But thankfully, the MTR comes every two minutes or so. If you miss the train, you can hop on the next one without having to waste too much time. But every train is always full at that time. You’ll just follow the crowd to get around.
Place of Interest:
I took more than one hour to get from my hostel to Tung Chung station in Lantau Island. Why do I want to come such a long way? There’s this quite nice sight seeing place in Lantau Island; the Ngong Ping Village where the biggest outdoor Sitting Buddha is located. Before that, I alighted at one station to take a look at the Disneyland train. It looks cute, with the Mickey’s shape windows. You can go to Disneyland if you have a day to spare. It’ll take up one whole day if you really go around Hong Kong’s Disneyland. Click here for the official website. I think the tickets cost between HK$ 295 and HK$ 350.
But I didn’t go for Hong Kong’s Disneyland because I want to go to California’s which should be much bigger than HK’s.
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