Over on the island, we headed straight to the nearby bus stop to catch the bus to the bottom of the cable car to get up to the peak - didn't get quite the right one and got the bus to the top of the peak which was actually a better ride.
It was still incredibly hot at the top and we went for the circular walk around the peak. Fantastic views around the bay. Caught the tram down from the peak into the town and bus back into the centre. Then walked to the bottom of the escalator, apparently the longest in the world, to take us back up to the Mid-Levels. Another walk from there back down going through the botanical gardens and Government House.
Paul had told us about the Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant in Aberdeen so we caught another bus over there - the buses and underground (MTR) are absolutely fantastic. All are clean & safe, buses run every 10 minutes, the Octopus card is easy to use. And most important - they're all beautifully air conditioned!
Caught the ferry back to Kowloon in time to see the start of the nightly light show again. Then walked to the Temple Street market which is full of stalls selling fake Gucci, Oakley etc.
From there caught a bus back to the hotel where we discussed some exceptional offers on a new camera we'd been offered on the way around the markets. Decided to go back and take up the offer - probably a big mistake. Best not to go into details, but we do have a couple of good cameras even if not the bargain we'd thought they were.
End of another long day and bed was very welcome.
Helen says -
Very busy day today!!
Went to starbucks for breakfast had a gorgeous blueberry muffin that was absolutely delightful lol and had a berry slush thing for drink because it was soooo hot and that was at like 10 in the morning (it was almost 30 degrees).
We got the ferry over to Hong Kong island (we are staying on the other side of the river in a place called Kowloon) then got a bus up to the top of the mountains and went on a walk and it was soooo hot i cudnt believe it. In england i was using an umbrella to keep the rain off but in HK I was using an umbrella for shelter from the sun - it was normal every1 was using umbrellas. There was a building on top of the mountain and we climbed to the top of it and went on the roof and it was too hot to stay up there! normally wen we go away it wud b this hot but i wud b in a bikini lying by a pool not wlkin around and climbing up mountain etc.
we went bk into the town and went on loadsa escalator type things bk to the top of HK island (it was bui;t on the mountain so is very steep hills tooo steep to climb) then we climbed dwn the hill again and wlkd thru the zoo, most of the animls had the rite idea and were lying in the shade having a siesta while we were wlkin thru the middle of the city with the boiling hot sun burning dwn on us :-(
we caught another bus to a side of the HK island called Aberdeen (they use a lot of english names out here it felt so weird saying that we were catching a bus to Aberdeen wen we were almost half way around the world lol.
we ate more chinese food but this time on a boat which was elaborately decorated in the middle of the river.
We caught the ferry back over to Kowloon and lookd thru a nite market wiv loadsa fake designer stuff (There are loadsa real designer stores here aswel i wish i had eough money jst to wlk thru the doors lol) i didnt buy nething there bt i did buy a new camera so andrew is gettin my old one.
One thing i hav to say is that the public transport here is amazing it is so reliable and because we had octopus cards kinda like bus passes we jst wlkd strait ona nd off the buses wen we wanted and we always manged to sit at the front on the second floor (all buses were double deckers) the transport in england shud b more like this
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