Hong Kong Trip (Day 1)

Went for a 4D3N Hong Kong holiday for my graduation trip last week with Dear, Marcus and Sarah. Took some time to process the photos and now I'm ready to blog about it. Our United Airlines flight was 6.40am on the Tuesday morning, so we were at terminal 3 in the wee hours to check in. Marcus and Sarah booked the tour earlier and was flying by the cheaper Jetstar instead. We paid 40plus bucks more but got meals on board so overall it's worth the money. Plus we didn't have to take a shuttle bus to the meeting point at Hong Kong Airport. =)

We arrive in Hong Kong at 10.30 am after a 3+ hr flight. Aijia did the staring girl look on me on the minibus which brought us to our hotel from Hong Kong Airport. Our hotel was somewhere in New Territories, both 40mins away from the airport and the Tsim Sha Tsui downtown. So we spend quite a bit of time travelling between places. Other than the location, the hotel is very good in terms of facilities and highly recommended.

After a short rest, we had a KFC lunch (!!! why KFC?!? cause we in a bit of a rush and couldn't find a better alternative) at a shopping centre nearby. Caught the hotel shuttle service downtown and our 1st stop was to be Mong Kok for some shopping. The transportation system in Hong Kong is very efficient and finding our own way around is pretty simple.

Saw some minibuses (a distinctive form of transport in Hong Kong) lining up to pick up passengers. Apparently, there are 2 kinds of minibuses, one type with red rooftop and another in green rooftop. If I recalled correctly from Dong (He's in Hong Kong for an internship, more on him in a later post), the green rooftops stop at designated bus stops while the red ones allow passenger to get off anywhere they want along the minibus route. We covered a lot of shopping places like Temple Street and I got a pair of Adidas soccer boots for HK$319. My tummy was feeling too well and we went back early to catch the 10pm hotel shuttle. This marks the end of 1st day. More to follow....