A tram ride and fireworks on the second day of Lunar New Year
NNNguyễn Ngọc4 min read21 photos
At the MasterInn hostel two nights, I'm familiar with the way, familiar with the direction, on the third day I checked out, to the side of Hong Kong Island: D
There was a currency exchange right outside. I thought about it for a while, then took in US$40 and got HK$280. I didn't think much about it, I just got what I needed, I could exchange the old $20, torn, anyway, and there's a part of this bill that people don't accept. That evening I worked out that US$40 should have got me HK$310. I’d lost about HK$30, around 100,000 đồng, to the exchange.
We walked a little bit and saw a place selling breakfast.
Beef noodles, beef is good but the water is a little salty, with vinegar will be better, like some restaurants in Hanoi I have to add vinegar / sour cream to eat.
After dinner, I paid with a credit card/Octopus that they didn't accept, so I gave them the cash I had exchanged, so I could get my money back.
Take the bus across Hong Kong Island, we'll go to Kennedy Town first.
There are many high-rise condominiums.
Restaurant cf/bar Hong Kong be happy
Supercars are a lot on Hong Kong Island, seeing supercars on the road is very common here:D
Walk to the school sports ground behind to take a view of Victoria Bay.
Walk around and out of the harbour, people take pictures of the beautiful outside that you can't see any beautiful corners, go out and take the tram back to the hostel
Kennedy Town was the first stop. I sat through two trams before there was space, while everyone else stood in the queue 😎 I’d read that you board at the back and pay at the front on the way out. Somehow I boarded at the front, tapped my Octopus card and paid HK$3 before the driver could stop me :DDD
An hour on the tram, across Hong Kong Island, and it's only $3 to the end.
Walking to the hostel, the Chinese room searching begins:D On the Trip it says 1st floor, I looked around and couldn't find any place called Tong Luo Wan
The sign said second floor, but a man there told me the hostel was on the first. I looked all over and asked a guard, who confirmed the sign was wrong. I finally found the place by asking at reception. It was called Hong Kong Hostel.
The dorm room here is expensive, ~10000 a night but this is the cheapest room in Hong Kong that day, at night there are fireworks so everyone is in the crowd, the room is expensive.
I'll take a break, get up at 5:30 and take the tram to the Monster Building, 6:15 the sun goes down so the train will be faster, take the tram and see the city but it's dark.
Back of the building.
It's hard to find a place to eat around here, so I took the tram back to the hostel, and now I'm used to it, so I'm standing at the end of the car, shooting videos, taking pictures, not having to get on the car and sit in the seats anymore, whenever I'm near the place I get on the front of the car and tap the card to pay and get off.
Times Square made in China :DDDD
When we were close to the hostel, we found a restaurant that had rice, this restaurant sold Thai food, at first we called Pad Thai but the staff said it was spicy so we changed to roasted chicken + orange, rukok
This place is very popular, search map around there are not many restaurants.
I read up on Hong Kong before going. There was plenty to look through and I only got through part of it. https://www.discoverhongkong.com/ had a Lunar New Year section with events, public transport and border crossing hours. With a little reading I could find what I needed myself.
The fireworks were at nine on the second night of Lunar New Year. The article I’d read listed good viewing spots. I went out just before nine and figured the crowd would lead me there.
There are three fireworks stations along Victoria Harbour, but all of them are big, so you hear it, you see it.
There are some beautiful parts with the ending is beautiful but not shooting, long 23 ', unpredictable, usually shoot 10, 15, 30', I hold osmo pocket 3 shot more than ten minutes, tired so I'm not, now back a week and have not had time to review.
After most of the people go home, I sit back and wait for the wind to come back.
Looking across Hong Kong Island, no one is losing any 😎
