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香港旅之三: Our Journey To Hong Kong Day 3

Day 3, our destination will be Ngong Ping 360 and the famous landmark in Lantau Island. Woke up this morning and the weather was quite nice. GOOD!

We headed to one of the famous HK noddles shop, 佳佳粉麵店( 港式車仔麵) and had our breakfast. The noodles shop located at Tai Kok Tsui, Mongkok Area. It was recommended by my colleague. Overall the noddles were nice, tasty.

After the breakfast, we took a train from Mongkok MTR Station to Lai King to change Tung Chung Line, and then we stopped at Tung Chung MTR Station. Reached Tung Chung station, find exit B and you’ll see the huge Citigate Outlet front of you, walked past the mall and there is the entrance for the cable car terminal.

We purchased the Single Trip for Standard Cabin Car which costs HKD80 for adults and HKD41. Each cable car can fit up to 17 pax (10 sitting and 7 standing) but 7 of us occupied the whole cabin car. This is the longest cable car ride about 5.7km. My In Law afraid of heights and felt scary during the whole journey. From the cabin car, we had the opportunity to view the scene of lantau Island, Giant Buddha from far, and also Hong Kong International Airport. It was awesome!

Reached Ngong Ping Village, heavy rain again! Damn bad luck! So we decided to have dessert at the Honeymoon Dessert House to escape from the rain. Ngong Ping Village provides its tourists with a diverse array of western and eastern food. We didn’t really have much chance to explore Ngong Ping Village due to raining. We walked to the Giant Buddha under the rain. To reach the Buddha statue, you have to climb 268 steps up the long flights of stairs. Benny and parents did climb up those stairs except me. :P Because I need to take care Chloe .. Her Milk time!

Our next stop will be Tai-O Fishing Village, which is just across a river from Lantau Island. We took bus No 21 from Ngong Ping Village to Tai-O Village. Upon arriving at Tai-O, we take a short walk to the docks where boats depart regularly to go dolphin spotting (famous Chinese white dolphins). It costs HKD20 per person. After the ride, we walked to the village, numerous shops sell dried fish, fish products, and some tourists souvenirs. We had lunch at one of seafood restaurants here.

We took a bus ride back to Tung Chung station, Citigate about 5pm. This is what a girl’s gotta do – SHOPPING! Spend 2 hours inside the mall, various outlets holding much designer fashion, shoes-wear, children wear and others.  Bought a Coach wallet for my mother, and shirt from Ralph Lauren for Hubby while I went home empty handed.

Took MTR from Tung Chung to Mongkok. Backed to the hotel, Hubby and Chloe were too tired and took a nap. So I took the opportunity to shop at the nearest H&M outlet J , bought a nice pair of earrings from Agatha outlet. We ended the night having a late dinner and again, shopped at Mongkok Ladies Street night market.

 

香港旅之二 : Our Journey To Hong Kong Day 2

Today is the 2nd day of our Hong Kong Trip. Today we will only go to one place, which is the Disneyland! Chloe was so exciting, “Mummy ..Mummy.. go see Mickey , Buzz…”! We all woke up early morning and realized the heavy rain as looked through the window.

We had our Dim Sum breakfast at the London Restaurant (倫敦大茶樓) @ Good Hope Building, Nathan Road near the hotel we staying. The London Restaurant is a fantastic, authentic Dim Sum place. How could you go Hk and not eat Dim Sum right??!! When we entered the restaurant, crowded man! As you can see from the crowd, most of the people are old uncle and aunty, enjoying their sumptuous dim sum.

After the breakfast, we took a train from Mongkok MTR Station to Lai King to change Tung Chung Line, and then we stopped at Sunny Bay MTR Station. Upon reaching the Sunny Bay station, passengers will only need to walk across the platform to interchange for the Disney themed Train. Chloe was so exciting when she see those cute Mickey handlers. Everybody rushed out after arriving Disneyland.

DISNEYLAND, CHLOE is COMING!!!!! Disney music are everywhere, after the Disneyland main entrance, we need to walk in about 4 minutes, we saw Mickey is surfing!  Daddy was busy snapping Chloe photos at the entrance. Luckily we doesn’t need to queue to get the tickets as we bought our tickets at The Peak. There were lot visitors waiting to buy the tickets at the entrance counter.

There are basically 4 lands in the Disneyland, Main Street USA, Tomorrow Land, Fantasy land and Adventure land. Every land is designed and constructed based on its own theme. At Mainstreet USA, there were lot shops, café, souvenirs etc.  While Daddy and Chloe were queuing to snap a photo with the Minnie, suddenly heavy downpours and we need to stay inside one of the souvenirs shop. After the rain stopped (about 45minutes), we took an excursion style train , which goes around the whole Disneyland.  Stopped at Fantasyland, and we went for the “Mickey 3D show”.  The 3D show was so entertaining, the sound effect and addition of splashes of water makes everyone laughed.

After the show, it was already 230pm and we looked for a place to settle down for food. Exhausted! After lunch, we saw a lot of people gathering at a place, everyone is queuing to take photos with Minnie! We also took the opportunity to take the Minnie J Chloe so happy J too bad I don’t see Donald Duck.

Then we proceed to the fantasy land. We went to the ‘It’s a Small World”, is a musical Fantasyland boat ride around the countries of the world in Disneyland Park, it populated with cherubic dolls singing a song of world peace -世界真是小小小. Don’t miss the “Golden Mickeys” musical show of all Disney’s films. Great performance.

After the show, proceed to Tomorrowland. Chloe wanted to see Buzz LightYear. Inside, we were waiting for our turn to play the shooting game. We act as the space rangers and help the Buzz lightyear to protect the universe. The shooting game is quite nice, among 3 of us, Chloe score is the highest, HAHA not bad ah!

We were really tired and went off about 630pm, afraid the MTR will be too crowded. We reached the Mongkok station at almost 730pm, headed back to hotel.

We shower and rest in the hotel room. Dinner @ 930pm. We went to Mongkok Ladies market for some shopping. It is the most popular shopping street markets in HK. It is opens from noon until 11:30pm. It is a must visit destination for fashion lovers, bargain priced for handbags, clothing, and toys.

Hubby and Chloe accompany me to Sasa, Mannings and Boujour to shop for my face masks and some facial products. And Hubby managed to get a nice jacket from G2000.

Backed to hotel about 1145pm. Absolutely exhausted, especially my Chloe Little.. Sleep ZzzzZz……

 

香港旅之一: Our Journey To Hong Kong Day 1

27th June 2011- Chloe was burning up some fever > 37.2deg, we were panic and we may have to cancel the trip if Chloe is not getting better.  Next early morning (3a.m.), I gave her fever reducer and hope so she would not be having fever.

On 28th June 2011, Hubby, Chloe and parents flew off to Hong Kong! Our flight was at 7.10 in the morning so we had to be at the airport at 510am. Felt relieved, Chloe temperature was at 36.8deg, she is getting excited and happy in the airport. She kept telling me- Chloe want aero plane!!   We were having breakfast at McD, LCCT. Soon after, we had to board the plane.

We arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport about 11am. After clearing the customs and immigrations, first off purchased the Airport Express ticket, from HKIA to Kowloon Station, adult fare is HKD$90, and also Octopus Card for 7 of us. Octopus Card is an electronic money card which you can pick up for 100HKD and charge up as needed. We use the card to get around on the subway during our stay in HK.

It only 20 minutes travel time from HKIA to Kowloon station. Kowloon station is situated in the Tsim Sha Tsui area. Took cab from station to hotel, we had booked a standard room in “Hotel Stanford” in Mongkok Area. Hotel Stanford is strategically located near the Mongkok MTR station which is also very near to the Ladies market (女人街), tourist attraction. Checked in to Hotel about 1245pm, and the room was pretty comfortable.  After settling down at the hotel,. So we headed for our lunch at Kam Wah Café @ Prince Edward. It started raining on our way to the café.

We will be visiting The Peak (http://www.thepeak.com.hk/) this evening. We purchased the combo tickets for the tram up to the peak and Madame Tussauds (伦敦杜沙夫人腊像馆), didn’t go for Sky Terrance because it was raining. We queue up for the ride J AS the tram move slowly and steeply up to the top, we able to view the beautiful city skyline of Hong Kong. Felt dizzy when I was in the tram. L

We visited the Madame Tussauds which exhibits over 100 local and international celebrity wax figures. You can meet your SUPERSTARs there!!! We have chance to take photos with our favourite idols. Hubby was busy snapping pictures while I were busy chasing Chloe in the center. Chloe also took photos with few celebrities Jwe also managed to buy the HK Disneyland ticket here (HKD350/adult). Didn’t stay long at the peak as it was kinda crowded and cold after the rain, so we went for dinner instead…

We didn’t want to take the tram back down so we decided to take shuttle bus (No 15) from The Peak back to Central MTR Station. The road is curvy, lots of bends. We headed back to Mongkok area for dinner @ Fuk Kee Congee. Food served wasn’t very cheap as well. After dinner, we walked back to hotel which is only about 10 minutes walk. The night scene of HK with lots of Huge billboards and the whole city is full of lights and laser shows.

TIRED …. SLEEP ZzzZzzz…

Family Holidays: Hong Kong 我们的香港之旅

SORRY for the late posting ! Here’s my  latest posts on my travel journal Hope you guys enjoy :)

Hong Kong is a very beautiful place for family. They have a very complete location where the father, mother and children will enjoy much.  Our parents has never been to Hong Kong before, so Hubby and I plan to have a holiday in Hong Kong in June 2011 with them, 6 adults and 1 kid.

My firsy visit to Hong Kong was 5 years ago and it is a business trip, there’s not much eating and shopping. I was disappointed to say at least. Threfore, this round i’m really looking forward to Hong Kong, EAT-SHOP!

So cutting short my stories, let’s move on to my travel summary.