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Date: 5th July 2012

My last day in Hong Kong was supposed to be spent at Ocean Park, but I woke up to this…

Raining Hong Kong building — You can’t make out much from this photo taken from my phone, but it was raining heavily!

Realizing such weather would ruin a far off visit to a theme park and delay my departure to the airport, I decided not to go and sought to get a refund for my ticket. I bought it from Fiona at the hostel itself, but she hadn’t come in yet. I asked the housekeeper who was Filipino and her reaction went something along the lines of this: “You want a refund? Ha! No way… Fiona won’t give your money back… Chinese don’t do refunds!”, with a laugh. Continue reading “Hong Kong: Last day in Hong Kong, and one day in Bangkok” »

Date: 1st July 2012

Today I shifted over to Mong Kok in Kowloon to begin the second phase of my Hong Kong sight-seeing. I had booked a dorm bed at Ah Shan Hostel/Dragon Inn which cost me HK$148 (Rs. 980/$19/€14) a night. Finding my hostel wasn’t that hard. As soon as I disembarked from Mong Kok Station, I took Exit D2 and the second building named Sincere House housed Ah Shan Hostel.

Elevator Hong Kong — There are four elevators in total for this building

Ah Shan hostel Dragon Inn Hong Kong — The hostel is on the 14th floor

View from Ah Shan hostel Sincere house — This looked a residential/commercial kinda building. Space in Hong Kong being a luxury, even apartment rooms are turned into commercial spaces.

The dorm room wasn’t all that great, considering it was super cramped inside with barely any space to walk (photo of the bed I got is at the end of this post). Fiona was the hostel owner and she spoke fluent English, proving to be quite helpful.

Fiona Dragon hostel Hong Kong — That’s Fiona behind the reception desk

After securing my luggage in the room, I stepped out again.

Continue reading “Hong Kong: Mong Kok’s many markets, and fireworks at Victoria Harbour” »