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| Kowloon park |
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| Kowloon park |
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| Sky scrapers with style |
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| Mong Kok...just a few people! |
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| Want some fresh fish? |
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| Kowloon park |
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| Street kitchen |
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| More Sky Scrapers |
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| Kowloon park |
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| @ the chinese new years fair |
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| Lots of "orange" trees for good luck, they appear everywhere, on campus in the student halls ect. |
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| In Kowloon park |
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| New Year Decor |
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| Water, lights and sky scrapers |
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| From the top of a shopping mall |
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| A view from of Victoria harbour from RED |
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| Symphony of lights from cocky bar |
Wow, time has gone fast....the first few weeks went into exploring the city and getting uni stuff sorted out, at this time I allso had a cold, so every time I wasn't out I just went vertical on the bed. In the end I had to just go to the doctors, which by the way costs only 15 HKD inclueding all the meds, so they gave me a big pile of pills and some cough mediscine, whitch seems to be what they do to everybody!
Some interesting things...when you have buildings as tall as they are here, you really have to get used to waiting for the elevators, seriously you might spend easily five minutes waiting to get into the elevator! This makes you seriously consider walkin up or down the stairs even if your in the 11th floor!
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| Sunset from my room window |
The system for the visually impaired is quite advansed around the city, I only figured it out now after a month of staying here....you don't only have those beeping things close to escilators, but lines and ruff surfices all around: in buildings, stations, on some of the streets and different kinds of surfaces depending weather you have to / can turn or if there is a step!
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| The little transport boat |
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| First view of the island |
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| Happy, getting closer to paradise island |
And so before I knew it, the chinese new year was here. So after going to see the new year's fair friday evening, we did some last minute shopping on saturday mornig in the shopping district Mong Kok, witch was stuffed...somtimes to the extent that you coulden't really change direction of travel, we escaped the multitude of people the next night to the Philippines for a short five day holiday! So after a whole day of getting ready our flight finally left at 01:35 on sunday, didn't really get any sleep on the plain and arrived at Cebu airport around 4am, where we had a private car and van waiting to pick us up and take us to the resort on Malapascua! So after a three hour jurney on the small roads to the north of Cebu island, btw still had no sleep, we got to do the water crossing witch consisted of three stages. Cince there were no piers so that you could go stright onto the bigger boat, at both ends we had to take a tiny boat to to and from the land!
And so finally after a whole night of travelling we arrived on the island around 9am, where we had people waiting for us to give us a welcome drink and breakfast!
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| A "big" hut/house of one of the locals |
It was a massive change of scene to first fly out of one of the worlsds biggest financial centers filled with scyskrapers to a third world country, where the tallest buildings are 10 storys high and even these are some of the few luxury hotels around, whilst the avarage buildings were only one or two storys high. After this going to a tropical paradise island with dive centers, white beaches and turqoise water!
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| Leaving Malapascua on a rainy day |
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| White sand on the "main street" of Malapascua |
Hmmm, gotta go again....I'll try and write some more soon!
This time there is more pictures than words, enjoy!
Hmmm, gotta go again....I'll try and write some more soon!