Friday, September 8th – Hong Kong Island, Ocean Park, Temple St Markets Hong Kong’s famous Star Ferries Rain! Well, we missed breakfast for the second day running (due to the hours of the hotel restaurant) so we ended up at the Pacific Coffee Company at New World Plaza (near the Kowloon ferry terminal). We had […]
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Thursday, September 7th – Macau and Shenzhen Our tour started early – we were out of the hotel after an early breakfast by 7:30am, although the tour guide & tour bus did not arrive on time as anticipated. By 8am we were at the Hong Kong ferry station getting ready to depart. On the […]
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Wednesday, September 6th – Heritage Tour and Buddha Temple Waiting for the Tour Bus Waking early, we headed down to the restaurant for a quick breakfast. The restaurant had an omelette chef who prepared made-to-order, which we took advantage of. The restaurant was quite pleasant, although breakfast was not terribly exotic, just the usual […]
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