Day 1. Lantau Island - Hong Kong Island
From the airport in Lantau island, we took the Airport Express to Hong Kong Island Station, where a shuttle bus picked us up and dropped us off right at the doorstep of the Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay. After settling in and freshening up, we took the train to Central Station and walked down Chater Road through Chater Garden to the Peak Tram station. We then took the historic Peak Tram to Victoria Peak to enjoy the twinkling lights of bustling Hong Kong below us. Dinner was at Tien Yi restaurant - everything was yummy! And the waiter kept saying "Salamat" even when we were the ones who were supposed to be thanking him, haha! Then we went up to Sky Terrace and had souvenir photos taken with nighttime HK in the background. It was too late for Madame Tussaud's, though, which was a pity.
Dinner at Tien Yi: No table with a view for these walk-ins. Food was excellent though.Day 2. Hong Kong - Lantau - Hong Kong
Wednesday was reserved for Disneyland, which is in Lantau Island. Again, we took the train to Central Station, then changed trains and took the Tung Chung line to Sunny Bay station. From there, it was a couple of minutes' ride on the Disneyland Express to Hong Kong Disneyland!
Mickey fever on the Disneyland ExpressDay 3. Hong Kong - Kowloon - Hong Kong - Lantau
Our last day was pretty packed. We took the train to Admiralty station where we changed trains and took the red line to Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon. After walking a few blocks we decided to proceed to the Ladies' Market in Mong Kok, also in Kowloon, just a few stops away from Tsim Sha Tsui. After a bit of shopping, it was back to the hotel where we picked up our luggage and proceeded to the Hong Kong Airport Express station. We checked in our luggage and took the Airport Express to the Airport station back in Lantau and literally ran from the cab to the Ngong Ping cable car station ticket booth, beating the closing time by 5 minutes. We took the cable car to Ngong Ping village and took the last bus back to town, making it back to the airport with less than 2 hours til boarding time. Whew! Good thing we checked in our luggage earlier so we already had our boarding passes. That still gave me barely enough time to have our Octopus Cards refunded before we left for home (that was an adventure all by itself, haha!). By the time I got to our boarding gate, it was the final boarding call for our flight and my poor mother was worrying herself crazy.
Buy money to spend money
It's a Ladies' Market all right
Savoring the last few minutes of our getawayFinally, it was back to reality in Manila. We got home around 1 am, where we gratefully took our forty winks before getting back to the salt mines in the morning. By sunrise, our planes-trains-and-other-land-transportation 3-day island-hopping HK adventure has faded into a dream.
Oh, well. What good is a dream anyway if you don't wake up every so often, right?
2 comments:
Aside from being Dumbledore's pensieve counterpart, these blogs have really allowed poor old feeble friends like me to still be updated about what's happening to furiously frenetic friends like you.
Thank you! =)
(Such high drama, 'no? but seriously, thank you for writing.)
I have had to split my blog to pieces, cause it would have been too long and I wouldn't be able to finish. Stay tuned for more!
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