Besides giving me a much coveted Silver status with US Airways, Hong Kong offers an array of day, night, and weekend adventures. You can choose to stay on the island or pop over to the mainland to partake in some excellent knock-ff shopping in Shenzhen or feast your eyes on the glittering prize of Macau for [...]
One of the most amazing things in HK is the skyline. You can see it from a number of spots, Victoria Peak and from the posh residential section of town up in the hills. You can also sit back and watch the jagged mountainous skyline go by on a ferry ride. Watch more Hong Kong [...]
Hong Kong, love it or hate it, but you have to respect the awe that this city’s skyline inspires. HK has more than 7500 high rise buildings, that’s more than NYC. Its’ majesty extends into Kowloon across the bay and when you go up to Victoria Peak, as every visitor does, you can see the [...]
Hong Kong is a dichotomy of yesterday’s culture and customs being slowly crushed by the gleaming glass buildings of the new economy. Old ways are dying with it residents as a new shopping centers spring up like the weeds in my garden. No trip to HK would be complete w/o a 70 cent ride on [...]
Shopping is a national pastime and is impossible not to find a store in which thousands of HK dollars and thousand more in US $ can be spent. All hotels and office buildings have built in shopping malls and not just average stores like the Gap or Banana Republic, I am taking high dollar mortgage [...]
Little know fact that over 250k Filipina maids work in HK. They work such grueling hours that their only reprieve from the 14-hour shifts 6 days of week is SUNDAY. This is a day that can easily freak out the most seasoned traveler if they are not expecting it. In keeping with the Sunday tradition [...]
Outside of Hong Kong, is the world’s largest sitting Buddha. As you guessed it, it looks like a sitting bronze giant about the size of well I don’t know a giant sitting Buddha. It is perched upon a hill on Lantau Island, about a 25-minute ferry ride from HK Island. After taking the ferry, you [...]
This is the heart of Eastern gambling country. And so you know, Macau qualifies as another country as I was whisked through passport control leaving, arriving, and returning. We can attribute 4 stamps in my passport for that excursion. Macau is about a one-hour fast ferry ride to the mainland, China that is. Costs about [...]
