EPTAnyways, if you do not like shopping, you can still visit some beaches, historical sites and museums... or go hiking if you like to see natural scene
Hong Kong for a day! - Page 2
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DarkwindHK
Hong Kong343 Posts
Anyways, if you do not like shopping, you can still visit some beaches, historical sites and museums... or go hiking if you like to see natural scene | ||
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The_LiNk
Canada863 Posts
On January 09 2011 19:50 Funnytoss wrote: That's something I'm a bit curious about - I can't speak any Cantonese at all (except swears), but I can read fluently... and I kind of assumed I could still get around pretty easily, but who knows. Many people in Hong Kong know mandarin; especially the younger generation, because of the triple language schooling. They aren't totally isolated from the mainland, especially since 1997. | ||
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myfriendspro
United Kingdom51 Posts
I went to HK year before last and loved it. My recommendations for tourist attractions would be going up the peak and also the giant buddah. Both of those were pretty cool, the views are awesome on a good day. I think coming from the UK it was more enjoyable because of the total contrast to here. The star ferry is pretty cool too. I mean its nothing that special but its historical and cheap and a fun way to kill time if thats what you're doing. I liked looking across at HK island from Mong Kok at the sky scrapers it was pretty sweet, especially the bank of china building i <3 it. Also IFC 2 is pretty nice, but if you're used to seeing the 101 building idk if you'd find it as cool! There is also a pretty nice place on HK island if you're going to go up the hill, i think it was called victoria peak gardens. Its a pretty nice little place and is sorta like a mini zoo or something. Has some cool animals there. I also went to Taiwan, spent most of my time in Taichung, boy do you guys love mopeds ^_^ . Ate in some pretty ballin restaurants in Taichung. Hope you have fun! Edit: added below and some more stuff above! With regards to getting around, its super easy really. So much stuff is in English and tonnes of people speak English, at least from my experience. Even when they don't its pretty easy to get by. The MTR makes it really easy to get around, its clean, spacious and efficient (at least in comparison to the London Underground). Really easy to get to and from the city/airport on the MTR. I picked up a map somewhere that was mega useful with all the places marked including MTR stations etc. Anyway enough of my ramblings, i hope you can tell from this post that i <3'd HK. Edit 2: Also i went to the hong kong history museum which i thought was really good if you like that sort of thing. The beginning bit was a bit boring (for me) geological development and cultural history but then later on it moved on to more modern generalised and political history which I enjoyed. | ||
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