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| Hong Kong Christmas lights |
On our return to our hotel in Hanoi we checked back in, to find we'd been upgraded to a very swish suite - and again our bed had been decorated with a large heart of red rose petals. Again, we took our lives in our hands to go out and look for a restaurant that had been recommended by our guide, the 'Green Tangarine'; we did find it, but it was fully booked - so we revisited the restaurant from two nights earlier, on a rooftop overlooking Hoan Kiem Lake, high above the chaos.
Yesterday morning we were driven to the airport to catch our flight to Hong Kong. We had a short delay due to a plane change but before long we were on our way to our final destination of this trip - Hong Kong. It was only a 90 minute flight and we enjoyed some amazing views of Hong Kong as we came in to land.
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| Reunion |
Hong Kong Airport was a very welcome breath of fresh air (quite literally) after the Vietnamese airports we'd been through and everything looked so clean, friendly and well-organised. Unfortunately, for the first time on this trip, nobody was there to meet us when we arrived, and we had an anxious time trying to contact Laura before Sally spotted her waiting for us in arrivals - about an hour too late and without her phone!
We took the train to Kowloon Station with Scott and Laura, and then a taxi onto the apartment we'll be staying in for the next 10 days. It's in a large block overlooking the waterway between the mainland and Hong Kong island and on the 30th floor, so it does have some impressive views, but is quite tiny - which is the norm here.
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| Hong Kong waterfront view |
In the evening we took a stroll along the waterfront enjoying the spectacular views of the buildings and Christmas lights and then had our first non-asian food for some time. I love asian food and really enjoyed almost every meal in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - but the burger I had here did make a very welcome change; the price of a beer didn't though - £6 a pint instead of the £1 I've been used to paying lately!
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