So I just came back from Hong Kong three days ago. It was a trip I went with my family because it had been a long time since we travelled and we failed to book a chalet for Christmas.

Day 1 - Arrival


After watching some Hong Kong shows, I'm sure everyone knows how the country looks like, but for some reason, I was expecting something like Taiwan. So, when reality set in and we arrived at a place that looked kind of similar to Singapore, except without the trees, I was kind of disappointed.

The next few days proved my disappointment unfounded because it's a very nice-to-look-at place with attractive people who care about how they dress. It kind of made me want to dress better too.

Day 2 - Lantau Island


In the morning, my sister and I headed over to a cafe because she wanted to taste their beans and stuff. With the family, we then spent the first half of the day queuing up for the cable car towards Lantau Island. I feel like there is way too much queuing involved in this trip, but the cable car ride was fine, except that I was having some sort of allergy and couldn't stop sneezing.

When on top, we did the touristy stuffs - visiting the big Buddha statue, taking lots of pictures of it, and walking around. My parents and grandma were tired, so they just sat somewhere while my siblings and I walked on what we thought was the Wisdom Path. We took a lot of pretentious photos while we were at it.



The rest of the day was just a walk back to the cable car, more queuing, dinner, and some shopping with my siblings.

Day 3 - Shopping Day


There really isn't much to talk about this day. Basically, we shopped as we could and visited the Temple Street Night Market, which was majorly disappointing. It was the same as Singapore's temporary night markets.

Day 4 - Ocean Park


Ocean Park was nice. There wasn't a super long queue and theme parks are generally nice places. We spent half the day on the calmer stuff like the aquarium, panda enclosure, and otter show. For the next half of the day, which ended up being only three measly hours, my siblings and I tried the theme park rides. We only managed to sit on three - one was chill(ish), one was super fast and fun and not scary, and one was super scary.

Day 5 - Miscellaneous Day
We wanted to spend this day in Shen Zhen, but my mum was worried that we wouldn't be able to haggle and the shops would exploit our money, so we didn't. Instead, we kind of walked around Tsim Sha Tsui instead. It was a lot of window shopping.

As it was Hong Kong and we hadn't had full dim sum meals yet, we headed to One Dim Sum at Prince Edward. It was nice dim sum. We returned to the apartment early to let my grandma rest up before finishing our trip with Victoria Peak, which was simply a place to view the skyscrapers from on top of a mountain.


The queue was the worst, so were the tourists from a certain country who cut 80% of the queue, push, barge, separate people, and get annoyed when we barge and cut back the portion where they cut us. Tourists from this country seem to really love embarrassing themselves.

Day 6 - Homeward Day
Simply put, we returned to Singapore.

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