Was Hong Kong ready for us?

Our two heroines (Marilyn and Bindy) traveled to Hong Kong to conquer the island of adventure. They had one week to accomplish every activity that Fodors, Early Planet, Moran and the Hong Kong Tourist Association has written describing Hong Kong and her surrounding islands.

Did they do it? Please, you must read on . . .

Friday/Sunday April 5-7, 1996

• Leave on Singapore Airlines nonstop to Hong Kong
• Arrive Hong Kong, Airbus to City Gardens Hotel.
• Walk around block before checking in. Went bakery, food market and MTR station.
• Shower/slept
• Ate at Panash
• Attempted Peak Tram but bailed due to long queues
• Star Ferry to MTR
• MTR to Apilue Street
• Golden Arcade Shopping Mall
• McDonalds dinner
• Temple Street night market
• Regent Hotel harbor view
• Star Ferry
• MTR to Fortress Hill (hotel's stop)
• Seven Eleven to buy breakfast

Monday, April 8, 1996

• Order Grey Lines tour to China at lobby desk
• went to Central District
• Peak Tram Bus to summit for breakfast
• Interviewed by school kids
• Peak Tram down mountain
• Botanical Gardens
• Hillside Escalator
• Flaming lunch (Singapore Style noodles)
• Hotel for Nap
• Missed 65 bus to Stanley at Fortress Hill
• MTR to Central
• Bus 65 to Stanley
• Chinese dinner
• Market shopping
• Bus to Central
• Walk around City Garden Square
• Called Patty

Tuesday, April 9, 1996

• MTR to Sheung Wan to Macau Ferry Terminal
• Jet powered Catamaran to Macau
• Bus ride to city central square
• Lunch, shopping
• Return to HK on 2 p.m. ship
• Kowloon - Golden Shopping Arcade
• MTR to Fortress Hill
• Shopping for dinner, breakfast and lunch
• Developed film
• Called Gary

Wednesday, April 10, 1996

• 6:30 a.m. bus to China (Shenzhen and Guangzhou)
• Grey Line tour pick up at Hotel
• 10 tourists, 2 guides and 1 driver
• Shenzhen - Border town, new special economic zone that allows free trade in community
• 15 year old city, 3 million people, super highway 1 year old
• Terra Cotta Soldiers Museum
• 2 hour ride to Guangzhou (Canton)
• Guangzhou - oldest city in China (2,800 years)
• Lunch at Star Hotel
• Dr. Sun Yet Sen's Memorial Hall (he over threw the Qing Mancu Dynasty (Last Emperor)
• Bus ride home, arrive 10 p.m.

Thursday, April 11. 1996

• Bus 63 from Fortress Hill to Stanley
• Dim Sum breakfast
• Shopping
• Bus to Aberdeen - McDonalds prayer women on toilet
• Mini bus to Star Ferry
• Star Ferry to Ocean Center (Gortex Store)
• Ocean Center to Bird Market
• Golden Arcade Shopping Center
• Lost the Internet Store
• Central Plaza Observation deck
• Developed film
• Dinner at Panash
• Called Rich

Friday, April 12, 1996

• MTR to Ferry terminal, Ferry to Lantau Island
• Bus #2 to Big Buddha (40 min. ride)
• Met Cambodian couple from Virginia
• Vegetarian lunch in Monastery
• Bus to Ferry, Ferry to HK
• Star Ferry to Kowloon
• McDonalds lunch
• Rode #1a bus on its entire route (Star Ferry to New Territories and back - 2.5 hour ride)
• Temple Street night market (Marilyn's bag buyout)
• MTR to Fortress Hill
• Bought noodles in drug store
• Packed bags
• Called Patty

Saturday, April 13, 1996

• Marilyn's 39 hour Birthday
• Tram ride to North Point then back to Central
• Western Market
• Din Sum
• Hotel - Shower and 3 p.m. check out
• City Garden Plaza shopping
• developed film
• Airport Bus to Kai Tak
• Flight home - Leave HK 9:45 p.m., arrive SF 5:45 p.m.
• Gary picked us up from airport