Hong Kong 2012 - Chapter 5: Cruising along Victoria Harbour

Continuing from where I left off, this post will feature the amazing night view of Hong Kong, which is something you must not miss if you do visit!! We gathered at the lobby at 4.30pm to take the bus that would bring us to Temple Street or 庙街. My colleague who didn't join us in the morning was still feeling sick, so she skipped the whole itinerary, poor thing.. (no refunds for skipping the tour some more, luckily it was a company trip).

Forgot to take a picture of the first bus, so this will have to do, it was a long and boring journey before we got to Temple Street because there were a few stops to pick up tourists from other hotels.. XD

Luckily the weather was good, can you imagine if it rains while you are on an open-top bus.. haha

Finally made it to Temple Steet~

Personally I preferred Ladies Market much much more, this was too obviously a tourist trap, and prices were higher for the same things compared to Ladies Market, and it had much fewer stalls, with many stalls selling fake goods, I got bored of it after a short while. Luckily we were only given about 45 minutes to walk around..

After Temple Street, we switched to this open-top bus, everyone enthusiastically rushed to the upper level, except my boss, hehe... it was so fun to zip around the streets with the cool wind in our faces, until we came to the bigger roads that is..

Not only were the streets crowded, the upper levels are all crowded with signs too XD

After we got to the open areas without buildings on both sides to block the wind, everyone nearly got their noses and ears frozen off, hahahhahaha.. it was really cold, until I didn't know where to put my hands even :S but the view was all worth it! :D

This was the best I could do without a zoom function but luckily my colleague had brought her Canon along, so no worries~

We were quite far away actually at this point, so she had to zoom and zoom @.@

This was taken with my camera.. pretty neh, if i may say so myself.. :P Its the International Commerce Centre Building, the tallest building in HK with 108 floors, also the 4th tallest building in the world by the way.

The Peninsula Hotel, a super duper expensive hotel that we can only dream of staying in one day @@ The room that made it to the top 10 most expensive in the world list costs USD5k a night~

Finally made it to the harbour with our numb faces, as you can see, it was cold!

Next up was buffet dinner aboard a cruise, where we could also enjoy the Symphony of lights show which is on every night at 8pm~ When we got on the cruise it was already 7.55pm, so we all rushed to grab some food and headed to the upper deck to watch the show..

With the music and the lights on the buildings all around going in tandem with the music, it was just amazing to watch~ Can't imagine how long they took to coordinate everything, and its a free show too, how awesome!!








We were very lucky since we were there at the end of chinese new year, all the lighted billboards with the fancy greetings were still up, you won't get to see those during the rest of the year I guess~

Here's a short video just to let you know what it felt like, with the music playing and everything.. I only thought of taking videos towards the end, how stupid.. I think its something that no tourist in HK should miss.. Can't wait to go again just to see it~~

We only returned to the hotel at around 11pm, and we were all longing for our beds.. but we had to check in on our sick colleague first. Instead of getting better, she had gotten worse, alternating between freezing and having hot flushes. She was too weak to even get a glass of water from the kettle, but she was adamant that there was no need to see a doctor and she would feel better after getting some sleep. So we forced her to down some porridge and left her to rest for the night.. Oh well, you can guess what happened the next day~ on to Day 4...