First day Hong Kong and Stanley

For the pictures it won t be possible right now because this computer is too slow. I have tried fro 50 minutes now...

The first day was great. We started with a little sight seeing at downtown HK...very impressive because very modern, clean and dynamic. The malls are new, the streets are clean, traffic is ok and public transport excellent. I have thought that this would be Singapore only but HK is clearly close.

After this little visit we went to Stanley, a former village for pirates and fishers. Now it is mainly a tourist place but the bus which took us to Stanley passed by very nice bays. We enjoyed that trip very much, although the driving style of the bus was kind of interesting. But whatever. Stanley has two nice pagodas, one known by the tourist guides which is very boring and not very impressive because very small and the other one we discovered by chance which is much nicer and not mentioned by any word in the guide.

After we tried to visit a village that was supposed to be quite old and the pp were supposed to be dressed in an ancient way. You reallized all the supposings? Yep, we couldn t find it and no one there could help us to find it...seems that the guide has some strange ideas of HK...but we found a nice park just next to that place so our trip to the neighbourhood wasn t a total failure.

At night we walked to the sea which was quite exhausting because we had already spend all day walking...but it was great to see all the skyscrapers in different coulors. quite impressive.
We then returned to Hong Kong station to have a little drink before returning to the hostel.