To celebrate Malaysia Day, me and wife decided to spend it in HongKong. Irony. The real thing is that I was attending official function there, so wife decided to might as well make it into our trip. It was bit rush since I am attending events in the morning and afternoon. We were only able to run around in late afternoon or evening but as long as planning is good, we manage to cover most of the place we intended to.
Day 1: central, sheungwan + peak
Arriving in the late afternoon, we immediate start our trip after checking into our hotel. Leaving the hotel at about 4, we had the whole day to go around. Taking trip on star ferry, it was a ride to remember. Hitting on central, just walk around. Initially we wanted to follow the heritage trail recommended by HK tourism, but we found that it was bit long. Walking to sheungwan and turning back to central again, we pass by hollywood road and SOHO. We even manage to grab a light dinner by a rather famous roadside stall for wantan mee. Yup, the wantan mee is really good. Then we walked all the way to tram station and took the tram up the peak. Remember to visit Madam Tussaud wax museum, although the ticket price was bit steep, it was worth it. The horror house did gave me nightmares for the coming few nights. View from the sky terrace alone was worth the ride up. However, the place is so packed that one need to be bit rough to get a place to enjoy the view. Our initial plan was to take the ting-ting tram down in central but we were too tired to do so.
Day 2: lantau island, avenue of star, symphony of lights and all the night market
We manage to start our day 2 journey in late afternoon so we decided to travel to tungchung and pay a visit to NgoPing 360 where PoLin monastery and the big Buddha awaits. It was rather nice cable car ride up. We were not keen on Disneyland at all since we seldom hear any good review of the place so we decided to give it a miss. We still manage to visit Citygate outlet but were unable to buy anything. Both of us are kiam ayway. Hitting back to Kowloon at 8, just in time for symphony of lights at avenue of stars. The building across in HK island lights up to designated music and the sight was something to behold. Ending that show, we paid all the famous night market a visit. We were bit late to Apliu street to buy electronic goods, but still made it in time to Tungchoi and Saiyeungchoi street. We end our journey to Temple street. The night market here is not much different from the ones here in Malaysia, so it was bit of letdown. The food was not so much different and lacks the variation one would find in Taiwan night market.
Day 3: Macau
This had been a adventurous decision. Going to Macau at noon, the first stop was to Ruins of St Paul and all the nearby heritage buildings. We underestimate the whole journey, we should had allocated more time for this. We had to rush through the museum and buy some famous biscuit back home. We still manage to visit Venetia at night to find Lord Stow's Portuguese egg tart. It was nice, but definitely not worth the journey from Macau town to Venetian.
Day 4: epilogue
We initially plan to visit Wongtaishin before leaving, but we were so tired from all the running for the past 3 days that we abandon the idea. We simply went around our hotel area for dimsum, but fate had it, the restaurant we chosen, despite fair review online, did not impress us at all.
Overall, I would agree that HongKong is impressive but one need not spend too many days here. On the other hand, I would like to spend more time in Macau but just unable to . Food there also were bit different and probably more impressive.
Ratings: 3 half poink!
comments: be kiasu again, do visit so you can tell people I've been to HK and Macau. But both of us enjoy Taipei more.
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