We took an extremely fast and efficient metro from the airport to the stop nearest to our hotel and were fortunate to be able to check in at around 8am. We then headed for HK Island which involved taking the slightly outdated Star Ferry.
Lunch involved a trip to the City Hall for excellent Dim Sum at Maxim's Palace. Amazing how many of those little parcels of deliciousness you can eat!
Hong Kong is an impressive place with a very cosmopolitan feel – an expansive skyline combined with quaint relics of the colonial area, huge shopping centres and small boutique shops and restaurants. The kind of place you could easily spend hours wandering around, which we did (despite the jet-lag).
In the afternoon we headed for the Ngong Ping Plateau on Lantau Island where we visited the Tian Tan Buddha, a 85-foot high bronze Buddha statue, as well as various monastery buildings. A particular highlight was the Ngong Ping 360, a 5.7 km long gondola lift which links Tung Chung and Ngong Ping – the cabins have glass bottoms giving you an incredible perspective of the land and seas below.
The next day was a slightly rushed affair. I had been asked to meet some prospective colleagues and Sarah and I arranged to meet for lunch nearby for some Peking Duck before we caught our flight to Kathmandu. Guess who turned up late? I didn't think it was humanly possible to eat a whole duck quite so quickly but we did. Suffice to say we skipped the on-flight dinner on our Dragon Air flight to Kathmandu.
We said goodbye to civilisation as we knew it and prepared ourselves for the mayhem that awaited us in Kathmandu!
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