Buses,
Restaurants, and Souvenirs
A day at the Jade Market, Stanley, and Aberdeen
A day at the Jade Market, Stanley, and Aberdeen
It
was our last day in Hong Kong, so we took it easy.
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| Our first stop on our
last day was the Jade Market, a covered market filled with jewelry
stalls. |
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| Its looks on the
outside weren't spectacular, but inside, it was beautiful. We got
to see many of the merchants setting up, too, as we arrived fairly
early (by Hong Kong standards). |
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My
second souvenir in Hong Kong was this $8 (US) multicolored pearl
necklace. I just love it! |
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| Next, we took the
bus to Stanley to visit the famous Stanley Market. We weren't
impressed with the market, but the waterfront was enjoyable. |
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| There were exposed
rocks to walk on . . . |
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. and beautiful flowers with spectacular butterflies! |
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Here
I am at the covered pier in Stanley. |
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| While it was fun
to walk around Stanley, it wasn't quite what we'd expected, so we took
the bus to Aberdeen. |
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| After Stanley, we
arrived at the grittier Aberdeen to make our way to the Jumbo floating
restaurant. We walked a long way and found the free ferry. Our favorite Chinese Buffet in Ann Arbor (now gone) had two giant pictures on the walls, one of Victoria Harbour and one of the Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant. It was so fun to see both in person! |
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| We were there at a
time when there wasn't a lot of demand for the ferry (between lunch and
dinner). |
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Here
you can see that the ferries dock at the floating restaurant. We
got out walked around the restaurant (which is actually several
restaurants in one), looked at the menus, didn't want anything, and
took the ferry back. We met an Englishman (originally from Hong
Kong) and his family on the ferry back! |
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| After our day out
to Stanley and Aberdeen, we got sausage McMuffin with egg value meals
for dinner at McDonald's, turned in our Octopus cards (to get the
deposit back), got rainbow ice cream cones at another McDonald's (I had
raspberry--yum!), and went back to our room. |
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| On our final
night, we walked to the Ladies Market and found streets filled with
locals. To end our trips, we got a red bean fried pie at
McDonald's (not to our taste) and headed back for our final night at
the hotel. |
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| On Thursday, March
27, 2008, we caught the 5:45 am bus to the airport, arriving at 6:30
am. We checked in, changed money, and went to the gate (photo on
left). [This is probably the lightest I've ever packed for an
internatioanl trip by plane; I have all of our luggage with me in the
photo!] We made some last-minute phone calls with out phone card
and boarded (plane photo on right). |
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| We flew from Hong
Kong to Tokyo before changing planes and flying from Tokyo back to
Detroit. The Tokyo Narita airport mascot is about the cutest
ever. There were even stampers of him for kids to get around the
airport. They also had a very informative display of fake
designer goods! Our phone card still worked in Tokyo, so we made some calls, used the bathroom, and walked around a lot before boarding our final flight. |
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| Thank
you for looking at pictures from my trip to Hong Kong and Macau.
I hope you enjoyed them! |
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