Hong Kong (Day One)
We have spent the last 2 days in Hong Kong, and may I say that it has been wonderful. Hong Kong is amazing and we have done some really awesome things, which I never thought I would do. I’m not going into detail with every scavenge because we did a lot, but I will write about the ones I liked a lot and some that I thought were….very interesting.
The first day we arrived in Hong Kong, we took a bus to the hotel which was absolutely beautiful with fountains and chandlers which look like they cost a million dollars.
We got to settle in a little bit then Uncle Bill gave us our first scavenge book, we sat down for a few minutes plotting where we wanted to go and trying to figure out how we got there, and these are some of the places we choose to go:
They asked us to “explain the wounded beasts at the base of the HSBC building”, the wounded beasts are two bronze lions which were wounded in World War II, named Steve and Stitt.
We also choose to do “ Take a ride up to the top of the world’s longest escalator”. This challenge we did at 8:30 at night and we knew check in was at 10, so we ran the entire thing, we definitely did not expect it to be that long but it was, and every time you thought it was over, it really wasn’t.
Another really amazing thing that we saw in the first day is that, every Sunday, all the Pilipino house-keepers who live in Hong Kong, go into the city on their day off and have picnics, and every corner you look are more groups of women playing cards and eating lunch.
The 2 mandatories which we had to do that day were “ Have a traditional dim sum lunch at City Hall” and “Have something daring at She Wong Yee’s-Causeway Bay”
The Dim sum was actually really good, even though there was a slight wait…it was still really good, but other things they were trying to serve us besides the dim sum were very …interesting looking.
Something daring is what we got at She Wong Yee's, we ordered chicken and pork trying to play it safe because we weren’t really sure what we were getting ourselves into but, they took the chicken and pork and made it daring. The pork was pretty good but the chicken, I let mum do that one, it was this yellow chicken which was cold and had this sauce on the outside which looked alittle…weird but it seemed to have been served at every restaurant in Hong Kong.
We did one bonus that day and that was to take a chair lift to the largest outdoor Buddha in the world, the chair lift up was hilarious because Auntie Zoë was freaking out, she thought we were going to fall and die but guess what….we didn’t. The chair lift up, in my opinion was amazing, you could see most of Hong Kong from up there, it was beautiful and Buddha was gigantic, and he was beautiful as well with all the detail someone put into making him perfect. I just wish it wasn’t so foggy but it was still great.
After the long day, we went back to the hotel and just crashed.
