A Trip to Hong Kong : Day 2
This is a part of 5 presentations in essays with pictures. During December 29, 2009 to January 1, 2010,
I and my family, Pracob, Natti, and Palm had a trip to Hong Kong During the New Year 2010 Vacation. We spent 3 nights and 3 days in Hong Kong. Day 1, we visited Venetian Macau, the world largest Casino complex, with gambling areas, shopping area, and food service area. Day 2, we visited some places in Hong Kong, including the Kawloon side, via traveling by MTR, the Hong Kong subway, and taxi. Day 3, we went to shopping malls did some shopping and exploring more food. I also present the transportation - how to travel to Hong Kong and in Hong Kong. We also concluded our viewpoints about Hong Kong in a very short summary - with some selected keywords. We are grateful for the useful materials from Wikipedia,the free enclycopedia.
Pracob Cooparat
E-mail: pracob@sb4af.org
The followings are the final part about our Day 2 in Hong Kong traveling by the MRT, the subway of Hong Kong to the famous shrine and shopping areas, exploring foods of some variety:
December 31, 2009
7:30 am, I woke up and went to toilet room Took a bath with also hair shampooing, shaving, quite fresh to start a new day
View of the City
Picture - Hong Kong in the morning, view from our room window
Picture - Mandarin Oriental was surrounded by high rise buildings of Hong Kong
Picture - Hong Kong in the mist
9:20 am, we all went down for breakfast, waited for awhile to have available seats Food of all kinds were delicious, I took limited quantity , for last night I took more than I should.
Breakfast at the Hotel
We had our breakfast at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong.
Picture - Natti and her breakfast
Picture - Natti and her breakfast
Picture - Yokurt in a small jar
Picture - Yokurt in a small jar
Picture - Veal, omelette, mushroom, and variety of beans
Picture - A plate of veal, slice ham, mushroom, tomatos, coffee, juice, and yokurt
Picture - A plate of main dish for breakfast
Picture - Smoked salmon, sliced ham
Veal, mandarin duck sausages, dim sum, coffee and milk, salmon, in limited quantity.
10:00 am ready to get out
Picture - International Finance Center
The tallest building in Hong Kong
The Mass Transit System
A day trip unlimited access for the MTR Hong Kong was HKD 50 per person.
Picture - Natti on an MTR train, in Hong Kong
Picture - Pracob on an MTR train, in Hong Kong
The city's rapid transit system, MTR, has 150 stations, which serve 3.4 million people a day.[128]
Hong Kong Tramways, which has served the territory since 1904, covers the northern parts of Hong Kong Island and is the only tram system in the world run exclusively with double deckers.[129]
Double-decker buses were introduced to Hong Kong in 1949, and are now almost exclusively used; single-decker buses remain in use for routes with lower demand or roads with lower load capacity. Most normal franchised bus routes in Hong Kong operate until 1 a.m.
Public light buses serve most parts of Hong Kong, particularly areas where standard bus lines cannot reach or do not reach as frequently, quickly or directly.
We selected to buy MTR one day tourist tickets at HKD 50 each, or HKD 150 for 3 of us.
The MTR
There are all together ten lines in the MTR system, with a total of 83 railway stations and 68 light rail stops. The ten lines are East Rail Line, Kwun Tong Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Island Line, Tung Chung Line, Tseung Kwan O Line, West Rail Line, Ma On Shan Line, the Airport Express and the Disneyland Resort Line. Eight of the lines provide ordinary metro services, whereas the Airport Express provides a direct link from the Hong Kong International Airport into the city centre, while the Disneyland Resort Line exclusively takes passengers to Hong Kong Disneyland.
The Light Rail possesses many characteristics of a tramway, including running on streets with other traffic (at grades) on some of its tracks and providing services for the public in New Territories West, including Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.
All trains and most MTR stations are air conditioned.
On the subway, day trip ticket
Wong Tai Sin Temple
Picture - The gate of Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kawloon
Picture - Natti and Pracob at the gate of Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon
Picture - Crowd at the Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon
Picture - Pracob took the picture to reflect the crowd atmosphere, Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon
Wong Tai Sin Temple (Chinese: 黃大仙祠; pinyin: Huáng Dàxian Cì) is one of the most famous shrines in Hong Kong. It is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong. The 18,000-m² Taoist temple is famed for the many prayers answered: "What you request is what you get" (有求必應) via a practice called Kau Cim. The temple is located on the southern side of Lion Rock in the north of Kowloon.
Pacific Place Shopping Centre
Picture - the Pacific Place, Hong Kong, with the atmosphere like the Central World in Bangkok, Thailand
12:10 hrs, Mom went shopping, Palm and me went to walk along the walkway of Hong Kong Sig sig Yuan worship, kaoloon Got to the Walk of Stars The promenade, along the sea shore, tsim Sha Tsui Promenade Tsim Sha Tsui, the whether was at 16 c, quite perfect for strolling along the walkway
13:00 spot for meeting, Mom, Palm, me at Starbucks Coffee Usual blended ice coffee, medium size Toyota Crown, Comfort, LPG for nearly all of them Double deck buses, double deck trams
Lunch
To be in Rome, live like a Roman. Be in Hong Kong, eat and live like a Chinese in urban area, in a very crowded restaurant of Kong Kong.
Lunch at a Local Restaurant, quite a crowed restaurant
I ordered “Hainan Chicken Rice, or in Thai “Kao Man Kai Hailam”, at HKD 50, with ice tea with milk.
Natti ordered “Rice and Curry”, or in Thai, “Kao Kang Karee”.
Palm ordered “Rice Noodle Soup”, or Khew Tew Sen Lek Nam”.
Picture - Rice Noodle Soup with Fish Meat Ball
Picture - Rice Noodle Soup with Fish Meat Ball, and a plate of Chicken Curry and Rice
Picture - Chicken Curry and Rice
Picture - Hainan Chicken Rice, at HKD 50 per set, remind me of a set like this at Greyhound Restaurant, Villa Market, at the Ari BTS Station, Bangkok, Thailand.
Picture - A set of Chicken Curry and a plate of rice
Picture - Chicken and Curry, and a bowl of Rice Noodle
Picture - Rice Noodle Roup, with Fish Meat Ball, Tawfu
Picture - Ice Tea, Chinese Style, in Thai it was called, "Cha Yen".
Picture - Tea
Picture - My digital camera and coffee
MTR. System Map, Airport Express, East Rail Line First Class,
16:00 hrs Pacific Place
Picture - Pacific Place
Pacific Place is a complex of office towers, hotels and a shopping centre in Admiralty, Hong Kong.
Pacific Place is a shopping mall in Hong Kong which opened in 1989,[1]. A division of Swire, which built the property, continues to manage it. One of its main competitors for retail space rental in Hong Kong is Times Square.
Tsim Sha Tsui East
Tsim Sha Tsui (English pronunciation: /ˌtʃɪm ˌʃɑː ˈtʃeɪ/; Chinese: 尖沙咀), often abbreviated as TST, is an urbanised area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay east of Tsim Sha Tsui. The area is bounded north by Austin Road and in the east by Hong Chong Road.
Geographically, Tsim Sha Tsui is a cape on the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula pointing towards Victoria Harbour. Several villages had been established in this location before Kowloon was ceded to the British Empire in 1860. Tsim Sha Tsui in Chinese means sandy mouth. It was also known as Heung Po Tau (香埗頭), i.e. a port for exporting incense tree.
Picture - Statue of Bruce Lee, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Picture - Walk of Stars, in recognition of movie stars of Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Picture - Pracob at the waterfront, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Picture - The statue - Movie Director
Picture - Hong Kong in the Mist, view from the waterfront, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Picture - A Venue of Stars, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Picture - Hong Kong in the Mist, view from the waterfront, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Tsim Sha Tsui is a major tourist hub in metropolitan Hong Kong, with many shops and restaurants that cater to tourists. Many of the museums in the territory are located in the area.
Tsim Sha Tsui is also a great place to watch Christmas lightings during December every year. Tall Buildings in the district will set up light bulbs on their walls with Christmas patterns, which is also a famous scene that is well known.
18:00 hrs reunion then go back to the hotel, Mandarin Oriental Hotel - waiting with sore legs and practicing typing - Brand names - Burberry, Gucci, Chanel, Versace, fendi, Dunhill - London, Daks- London, Tod's, prada,
18:00 hrs, back to the hotel by taxi, HKD 18 Natti soaked her feet in the hot water. I relaxed my soar feet by raising them up high.Dinner at a restaurant near the Mandarin Oriental Hotel – quite grand dinner to celebrate our new year.
Coffee at the Mandarin Coffee Shop
We came back to our hotel, took a hot bath, and watch TV looked for the New Year Countdown. However, we all went to sleep much earlier. For the last day of the year 2009, it was a tiring one, walked a lot and got some fatique from not having enough time for sleep.
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