Honkers

Just arrived in Honk Gong, following a 12hr overnight ride on the train from Guilin. Was a comfortable cabin which we shared with a Chinese man and his 4 year old son. The 4 year old was a hoot, and enjoyed interacting with us. All items of clothing he sported were Ultraman branded. He also was very good at playing Counter-Strike on his Dad's laptop. He knew all the keyboard shortcuts from what I could see and was ducking, weaving and killing terrorists gleefully. A crazy sight. Other than that we slept through the ride, woke at 8am, I had Chinese breakfast in the restaurant cart which was tasty.

We hopped off at Shenzen, and went through immigration and customs for both sides. I noted the two sides were seperated by a moat of sorts. Changed our RMB cash to HKD before crossing, bought an octopus card for the metro, which we jumped on and 3 line changes and a shortish walk with backbacks and a lift to the 11th floor later we arrived at the hotel, only to find a note on the door saying they are temporarily now at a different building further down the road. We ended up finding it finally, and our now pretty wacked. So will take it easy for a bit before deciding the plan of action. We're here 4 nights. Keep tuned, I'll also be doing some updates for previous days too.


Hong Kong from tgoodwin on Vimeo.