My current hostel has some marvellous software, enabling me to write this blog entry and beat the system!
I had a great week in HK staying with my cousin Kate and her husband Nick. I did as many touristy things as possible during my stay, including taking the star ferry, watching the symphony of lights, which is where all the biggest buildings put on a synchronized light show every evening to some terrible Chinese music, and taking afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel (delicious!). I also took a day trip to Macau, which is a small part old Porguese town, big part Las Vegas of the East. Very strange but worth a visit!
After leaving HK I travelled to Guangzhou, and stayed for 24 hours before heading onto a 26 hour train to Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan province. On my first day I met up with Nikki and Kiara again, which was really nice to catch up. Nikki and I have now agreed to meet up again in Vietnam which should be really good, it's been a long time since it was just the two of us!
My first impressions of Kunming were that it's just another city, but with very little to do. What I discovered is that the main thing to do is sit around and drink! So, naturally, I gave that a go. I'm staying in an excellent hostel called Hump (hehe!) and have met loads of people here. A couple of days ago, we tried to go to the Dwarf Empire. Basically it's a little villiage in the mountainside where hundreds of dwarfs live, and they put on a daily show. As you can imagine, I was very intruiged, but after an hour's journey, we arrived to find a ghost town. It was raining, so the show was cancelled! I was devastated. Our driver tried his best to make us happy by going into the block of flats where the little people all live and banging on the doors to get them to come out and say hello to us! It was so embarrasing, and so so wrong. Like I've said before, it would only happen in China!
I had a great week in HK staying with my cousin Kate and her husband Nick. I did as many touristy things as possible during my stay, including taking the star ferry, watching the symphony of lights, which is where all the biggest buildings put on a synchronized light show every evening to some terrible Chinese music, and taking afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel (delicious!). I also took a day trip to Macau, which is a small part old Porguese town, big part Las Vegas of the East. Very strange but worth a visit!
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| The symphony of lights show in HK. |
After leaving HK I travelled to Guangzhou, and stayed for 24 hours before heading onto a 26 hour train to Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan province. On my first day I met up with Nikki and Kiara again, which was really nice to catch up. Nikki and I have now agreed to meet up again in Vietnam which should be really good, it's been a long time since it was just the two of us!
My first impressions of Kunming were that it's just another city, but with very little to do. What I discovered is that the main thing to do is sit around and drink! So, naturally, I gave that a go. I'm staying in an excellent hostel called Hump (hehe!) and have met loads of people here. A couple of days ago, we tried to go to the Dwarf Empire. Basically it's a little villiage in the mountainside where hundreds of dwarfs live, and they put on a daily show. As you can imagine, I was very intruiged, but after an hour's journey, we arrived to find a ghost town. It was raining, so the show was cancelled! I was devastated. Our driver tried his best to make us happy by going into the block of flats where the little people all live and banging on the doors to get them to come out and say hello to us! It was so embarrasing, and so so wrong. Like I've said before, it would only happen in China!
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