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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
okay it's been 2 days since i touched down from hong kong..which means my holiday is OVER! but it has to end somewhere right? well well..what can i say? holiday was good! who says one has to go on a tour group? we went ourselves and went to so many places that i bet the tour group would most likely never go. 1st 2 days at macau was quite fruitful stayed at metropark..hotel wasn't fantastic what do you expect..it was like 80 plus SGD per night i think..and we touched down early flight was at 6 and the check in time to the hotel was at three!!so we found our way around asked the concierge how to get to the ruins of st paul..took a bus and walked there..nice area quaint square with lots of shops like sasa and esprit and of course the ruins was packed with tourists snapping shots ate at this nice road side stall some siew mai harkow and the best carrot cake ever! it smelt of radish for once! grabbed a bottle of nail polish from sasa- revlon for 15 hk dollars!headed back to the hotel FINALLY we could check in but only our room..and i must say that hotel isnt very effecient it took some calling to finally have our parent's room. At night met aunty sharon who is working in macau for dinner at some macaunese restaurant and then she brought us to the venetian, which was really like venice! took a gondola ride with a very entertaining female gondalier! Next day we crossed the border and headed to zhuhai and spent like from 7 hours alone in the shopping complex gongbei before heading back to macau! lunch was really good at a chinese restaurant for only 75RMB which was like 15 SGD! And of course we bought alot of stuff with mummy as the chief bargainer(many shop keepers called her li hai!)Day three, ferried to kowloon and cabbed to our hotel which really blew us away! papa didn't know it was newly refurbished when he booked it and i must say that we loved the hotel! our first day at hk was a waste of time. took the iconic star ferry to hk island but ended up a little lost so we took the tingting(tram) to central with the intention of going to midlevels but ended up in front of the peak tram station..so we decided to go there..took the tram up the peak and that was where papa felt unwell so we visited tussads but didn't really enjoy the trip..the view was breathtaking though..but the queue for the peak tram back was sooo long and the wind was chilly..cabbed back to tsim sha shui mummy settled papa and then four of us went exploring our area..found the esprit outlet..grabbed a few shirts and tried their street food!well ihave so much more to say because it was one week but i shan't say more because its very ime consuming..but all i can say is that i love hk and will be back soon! and oh.. am i proud to say i took almost(except the KCR) every mode of transport avaliable in hk..the star ferry, the taxis, the mtr, the citybus and the minibus..
stefie just scribbled this down
12/04/2007
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