Monday, April 23, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip 2012 - Day 2- Taking the Cable Car to Ngong Ping 360

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We decided to visit Ngong Ping 360, so we took the MTR and alight at Tung Chung MTR Station. It was quite a distance from our hotel. On arrivial we saw Citygate Outlet just beside Tung Chung MTR Station. Saw a familar Singaporean food court "Food Republic" on the top floor of the mall.

Lots of signs in the MTR Station to direct us to the cable car station to Ngong Ping 360.


Although I have a fear of height, I decided to take the cable car to Ngong Ping 360 and come down by the public bus.

We took the escalator to the cable car station to purchase our tickets, although there's a queue but the queue is moving so we got into the cable car very quickly.
The weather is very misty but when the sun is out, it was really very hot on the top of the mountain.

Spotted some people that actually trek all the way up to the mountain. OMG, what a long walk.


For more information about Ngong Ping, you can view their official website


Sunday, April 22, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip 2012 Day 1- Tsim Tsai Tsui

Saw this beautiful hotel cum shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui. It is known as 1881 Heritage, I think it was old building converted to be a hotel.  It is really very beautiful.
I visited Hong Kong several times and I never missed shopping at Tsim Tsai Tsui.
Some changes to ParkLane Shopping Mall, some boutiques are not the same anymore.
Saw this huge hand sculpture in front  of Park Lane Shopping Mall. The gesture represents 'thank you' or just a way to show respect.
Hahaha this sign looked funny. In mandarin, it meant pedestrian area during certain hours.
This night market looked lively, it located  near Jordan MTR Station. This trip round, I wont be visiting other night market in Hong Kong cause I only had two days in Hong Kong.
Saw this shop selling some roast meat, it looked so delicious and yummy. Even non chinese are purchasing it.
Strange the shop beside the popular shop selling same food but lack of customers.
Lots of eating places around here but cannot make up our mind what to eat lol.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip 2012 - Day1 - Taking the ferry from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon

We decided to take the ferry from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon.
The ferry terminal seems to have shifted. I think they reclaimed some land. It was much closer to the Central MTR Station when I last visited.

It was easy to purchase tickets for the ferry. They had both English and Mandarin instructions on the machines.

The trip was only nine minutes and the sight from the ferry was beautiful and the cool air blowing towards us from the sea was a bonus.
Finally we arrived at Tsim Tsai Tsui ferry terminal.
Just beside the ferry terminal was Harbour City. It is a huge shopping mall with more than 700 shops.
Time to do some shopping in Tsim Tsai Tsui.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuha/Macau Trip 2012 - Day 1 - Off Day for foreign workers in Hong Kong

The first day we arrived in Hong Kong happened to be a Sunday which is also off day for foreign workers. Saw many of them resting in Central and Causeway Bay.
There was a foreign workers festival here too and think hubby and me were the only tourists mingling around there hahaha.
Oh I love watching the Tinikling Bamboo Dance performed by some Filipino. It reminded me of my first trip out of Singapore to Philippines back in 1983.
A short video of the dance.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip 2012 -Day 1- Taking a tram ride in Hong Kong

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Although I have been to Hong Kong so many times, this is the first time, I went for the tram ride. It is also known as Ding Ding by the locals cause instead of horning, the driver will ring the bell that sounds like ding ding to warn people not to cross in the path of the tram.
One have to enter by the back door of the tram and pay only at the front where the driver is. The fare is HK$2.30 for adults, HK$1.20 for children under 12, and HK$1.00 for senior citizens 65 and above regardless of the distance. You got to have the exact amount cause the driver wont be able to return any change or you can use the Octopus Card.
It was interesting to sit on the top of the tram and sightsee but the tram is very slow but lucky the weather is still very cooling we can feel the cool air inside the non air conditioned tram.
A tram station at Northpoint
Some short videos of the street scenes viewed from the inside of the tram, do not put your hands or head out of the window cause of incoming tram from the opposite direction.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip 2012 - Day 1 -Making our way to IBIS Hong Kong Hotel Northpoint

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We made our way to Northpoint MTR Station and looked for the sign to direct us to our hotel, we exited at A1 and after climbing some stairs, we turn right and IBIS Hong Kong Northpoint Hotel is only few steps away.
The colourful building is IBIS Hong Kong Northpoint Hotel, took these shot from the harbour opposite the hotel.
The hotel room is quite small and cramp but as hubby and me are budget travellers, we tried to save on hotel rates but occassionally we would pampered ourself with luxury hotel stay. It would costs twice the rate for hotels on other parts of Hong Kong especially in Kowloon. The room had recently been renovated and clean. Hubby and me are quite small size so the room is suitable for us.
We booked the room with the view of the harbour. 
Took this photo of Kowloon, Hong Kong from the harbour opposite our hotel. We could also able to go to Kowloon via the ferry instead of the MTR train.
Spotted a dog park near the harbour.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip 2012 - Day 1 - Arrival at Hong Kong Airport

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Finally after three and half hours flight, we arrived safely in Hong Kong. Lots of signs in the airport to direct us to the immigration and baggage claims. For those who wanted to skip the immigration and go directo macau instead of Hong Kong, there are signs to direct you to board the ferry without going through the immigration in the airport.

After clearing the immigration and claiming our luggages, we made our way to the ticketing counter to purchase our tickets to board the airport shuttle train to city.
We bought two tickets at HK$160 (about S$26 i.e. about S$13 for each of us)
The seats are comfortable and we just rode to the end of the line i.e. Hong Kong Station where we would transfer to the MTR line to reach our hotel in Northpoint MTR Station.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Planning for HongKong/Zhuhai/Macau Trip

Finally hubby and me booked our trip to Hongkong/Zhuhai/Macau for six days.

Our itinenary is such:

Day1 & 2: Singapore to Hongkong by Tiger Airways and stay two nights in Hongkong.

Day 3 : Take ferry to Zhuhai from Hongkong and stay one night in Zhuhai.

Day 4 & 5 & 6: Walked over the border of Zhuhai/Macau and hitch free shuttle bus rides to hotel and stay in Macau for two nights Finally we would take Tiger Airways back to Singapore from Macau. We managed to get good deals on the airfares and hotels. We followed with more details and photos in later posts as soon as I sorted the photos.