In the morning we set out from our hotel on foot and quickly made it to the Man Mo Temple, a nearly 150 year old temple that has seen the rest of modern Hong Kong build up around it.
After stopping in, we continued on further into the Central District before we hopped on the nearly mile-long escalator up to the Mid-Levels, used by thousands of commuters daily and these two tourists today in Hong Kong.
After riding the escalator all the way up to the Mid-Levels, we turned around and walked back down to Queensway Road. There, we boarded the old tram for an East-West trip across the city.
We took the tram pretty far East and then doubled back to head back to central for some lunch. Here, we had our first lost in translation moments of the trip when Simon's meal 1) originally did not arrive, 2) was then accidentally cancelled outright, and finally 3) was wrong when delivered. Undeterred, though, we went back down to the pier and took the Star Ferry across to Kowloon.
We hopped off the boat as the Typhoon Mawar began to pick up, but continued walking around the beautiful Tsim Shui harbor area.
Then we went further and visited the expansive and lush Kowloon city park before going up to Temple Street and the Jade Market, two of the most similar areas in Hong Kong to mainland China. We also found some absolutely delicious pork buns on Temple Street that completely made up for our lunchtime difficulties!
In the late afternoon, we took the subway (MTR) back to the Hong Kong side of the bay and then got some refreshing hot tea.
After a bit of rest, we went back up to the trendy Lan Kwai Fong pub district for some tasty drinks and people watching.
Finally, as promised we went back to Crystal Jade for another mouth watering, belly satisfying round of dim sum with all new dishes and no regrets!
We fly out tomorrow morning and will try to update the blog as wifi access permits.
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