Yesterday I started my day by walking to the Star Ferry Terminal. Found signs to Central/Hong Kong Island and used my Octopus card. The 10 minute ferry ride cost about 25 cents (US). Landed at the ferry terminal and started walking from the ferry terminal on the elevated pedestrian foot bridge. By "accident" I found myself in the ultra expensive International Finance Center(IFC) mall which houses stores like Gucci and Channel. Needlessly to say, I did not do much shopping there. Connected to the mall was one of the Airport Express Transit Metro Stations. You can check in to flights and check your luggage up to 24 hours before your flight so you don't have to lug it with you on the metro. How amazing is that! (Maybe this is why the Hong Kong airport was voted the world's best airport in 2007.) From there, I meandered my way around the busy congested streets with outside vendors which was in such contrast from a few blocks away. I visited Man Mo Temple, (one of Hong Kong's oldest temples), the central escalators, (the world's longest elevated covered escalator running above street level), Saint John's Cathedral and Hong Kong Park. At 3 PM I walked to the Central metro. I splurged the 90 cents (US) for the ride back to the hotel. I did a little shopping around the hotel and at 7 PM ventured out to dinner with Jason and his colleagues. (This morning Tuesday 18 March, I awoke early to Jason working hard typing away on his laptop. I asked him if I could take his photo for the blog. He said "no"!, so I am using one he took of me earlier in the trip.)
17 March 2008
What Laura did yesterday
Yesterday I started my day by walking to the Star Ferry Terminal. Found signs to Central/Hong Kong Island and used my Octopus card. The 10 minute ferry ride cost about 25 cents (US). Landed at the ferry terminal and started walking from the ferry terminal on the elevated pedestrian foot bridge. By "accident" I found myself in the ultra expensive International Finance Center(IFC) mall which houses stores like Gucci and Channel. Needlessly to say, I did not do much shopping there. Connected to the mall was one of the Airport Express Transit Metro Stations. You can check in to flights and check your luggage up to 24 hours before your flight so you don't have to lug it with you on the metro. How amazing is that! (Maybe this is why the Hong Kong airport was voted the world's best airport in 2007.) From there, I meandered my way around the busy congested streets with outside vendors which was in such contrast from a few blocks away. I visited Man Mo Temple, (one of Hong Kong's oldest temples), the central escalators, (the world's longest elevated covered escalator running above street level), Saint John's Cathedral and Hong Kong Park. At 3 PM I walked to the Central metro. I splurged the 90 cents (US) for the ride back to the hotel. I did a little shopping around the hotel and at 7 PM ventured out to dinner with Jason and his colleagues. (This morning Tuesday 18 March, I awoke early to Jason working hard typing away on his laptop. I asked him if I could take his photo for the blog. He said "no"!, so I am using one he took of me earlier in the trip.)
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