Our last days in China!

We are still in Hong Kong but will be leaving for Seoul tonight so we need to enjoy as much of Hong Kong as possible in these last few hours!Yesterday we managed to get up a bit earlier and after breakfast made our way to the island of Kowloon for some exploring. Thanks to the Hong Kong MTR (metro) it was an easy journey -- although expensive...they have the octopus card here, much like the oyster card in London so it is cheaper for those that live here!

First we stopped in Yau Ma Tei to visit the Tin Hau temple there. It was an incense temple, where you could buy huge incense triangles (red or yellow) for your ancestors that you would then hang on the ceiling to burn. We also visited the Chin Lin Nunnery in Diamond Hill with its beautiful lotus gradens...you could tell it was women that run the place, it was all very clean and very well maintained :) After we strolled through the Lin Nian Garden which is also very nice and seems to be quite recent. Hong Kong has quite a few green spaces for people to "leave" the chaotic city life and just enjoy!

For lunch we went to the Hollywood Plaza's food court - I dont think they get a lot of foreigners there because it was the first time in Hong Kong that we did not see the menus in Chinese so we just had to point and see :) In the Hollywood Plaza there was a huge toy manga convention going on so that was amusing to watch :)

Afterwards we made our way back to Yau Ma Tei to visit the Temple street Night Market which is a really lively place filled with antiques, fakes and just about anything you need! Jo took his tripod there and got quite a few nice photos, with of course, an audience behind him. We also had dinner there at a corner restaurant where they were serving great seafood! Byt the time we reached the end of the island in Tsim Sha Tsui it was already quite late (considering that we stayed in the market for quite a while just to take pictures...correction...for Jo to take pictures :)

Today we are going to visit the Peak and then see what else we can do with the time that is left us!

Next time you hear from us we will already be in South Korea, so until then Zaijian!