Mongkok

Hello! We had our first day of exploration today, and it's just been amazing. When I eventually woke up we headed out towards Mongkok, one of the busiest places in the world.



This photo is the inside of Langham Place, where we will be working in a week's time. It is just one of hundreds of shopping malls around the area, offering expensive shops and a welcome respite from the blazing heat outside thanks to the air conditioning.

We spent about eights hours walking all over Kowloon...it's easy to forget time when there is so much to see.
We were roughly aiming for the harbour to catch a glimpse of Hong Kong island. We arrived in the evening just at the start of a light show, when lasers are beamed from the buildings on the island in time with music. It was beautiful to say the least. Tim then spent about an hour trying to take the perfect photo of the view below. His results are much better than mine, but you get the idea!


We wandered around the expensive end of Kowloon after that, weaving in a complicated and more to the point wrong series of directions that led us right off into Hung Hom and Kowloon City unintentionally...my lowest point so far this trip has been seeing the street name 'Whampoa Street' successively 4 times, in the space of two hours as we tried to find our way.
But at least we found a great cake shop and bought a small sackful of pastries and small cakes for our tea, costing us about $15 (£1)...


It's hard to write a blog about what we've done today; there has just been too much to see! Flower markets, fish tanks full of fish in supermarkets, chopper motorbike gangs (Triad for sure!), parks, flamingos, people, trees, cockroaches, strange old men, expensive hotels, huge Nintendo toys, empty turtle shells, the university campus (about five times when we got lost and went in circles), a building sized Louis Vuitton suitcase, huge concert halls, Starbucks, Wellcome, Park and Buy, 'K', cake shops, metal workshops, jade markets, birds, golden dolphins, junks, lasers, wealth, slums, malls, people, buses, dangerous taxis, toys...and of course a fair bit more.

So far I'm once again extremely tired but happy...we think we'll head to Hong Kong island tomorrow. Time for some jasmine tea in my glass Muji cup and then perhaps a little sleepy.

Bye for now x