For our last day in Hong Kong we headed over to Lantau Island, where the airport is based, to visit the Tian Tan Buddha. We hadn't realised before hand that the day we had chosen to go was a public holiday, and we hadn't pre-booked our tickets, so we had to queue for over an hour, but it was well worth it. To get there we had to take a cable car to a village called Ngong Ping, and we chose to take the glass bottomed cable car! This was a bit scary, as we were so ...

Today we met up with our friend Mat, who we haven't seen since we all finished uni and Joel and I moved back to Guernsey. Mat is living in Hong Kong, but has only been here for a month, so we met up in Kowloon to explore. After spending around an hour looking for somewhere to eat, and getting completely lost, we decided to make our way across to the Centrral District on Hong Kong island. We made our way to the Mid-Levels Escalators, which are a set of escalators ...

Today we had a bit of a lie in to fully recover from travelling, and then we set off to explore Kowloon, which is across the harbour from Hong Kong Island. We started off by getting the Star Ferry across the harbour, our boat was called Twinkling Star and it only cost $2.50 to get across, which is about 20p. Once we were there we walked along the water front, which gives really good views of Hong Kong's Central district, then made our way along the Avenue of Star...

We've made it! After 2 full days of travelling, (which were long!), we are now in Hong Kong. The flight over was ok, the seats weren't great but we had hundreds of films to choose from to pass the time. When we finally got to HK we were pretty shattered, so we just got on the bus to our hotel and had a rest. Then we went for a wander around the area we are staying in, North Point, found a local market which was nice to look around and then found a chinese restaur...