HK - 2/2/2010

I woke up at 5.15am in the morning. Xiulian called cab and reached my place at around 6.15am and we reached the airport within half an hour. I noticed that the time on the taxi receipt was inaccurate! It was 25mins behind the actual time! I wonder if the time can be set by the taxi driver cos they can pro-long thier mid night charges.

Initally my flight was 6.40am but I received an email from Jetstar notifying me that it had change to 8.00am only about a 4days b4 the flight. I guess not everyone checked thier email and some may need to wait 2hrs for the take off. Anyway I was expecting to see the sunrise on the plane but was so dissappointed with the changes! The sun have ard rise when I take off. 

Dazzling sun

Arrival form to HK. There was cabon copy behind for departure.

HK control tower

The plane touch down at 11.40am in HK. No time difference in HK. It was 23 degree celcius.

There was no aero-bridge to the terminal. For your info, the international airport at Lantau was actually built on reclaimed land.

A bus depot us from our landing area to the terminal. It took about 5mins to reach the Terminal 1. All the planes arrived and depart at Terminal 1. Terminal 2 only handles some check-in.

The arrival and departure hall. Customer service counter was just right in front. Octopus card can be purchased from there. Adult Octopus cards cost HK$150 with $100 face value plus $50 refundable deposit. A $7 service charge applies if the card is returned in less than 3 months.

Towards the left side of the hall, there are a row of travel agencies. I purchased Peak tram + Sky Terrance + Madame Tussauds @ HKD160, Disneyland-peak period@HKD340 and Oceanpark@HKD215 at the CTS agency. It would cost HKD200, HKD350 and HKD250 respectively if you purchased it at the attractions. I saved a total of HKD85~S$15.30! Whats more, you can visit the attractions at any day during the validity period. All the tix need to be change at the admission counters of the attractions except Disneyland.

The down side was that I only noticed Ah shan guesthouse selling the Disneyland tix at HKD330 after I check-in! And I guess if I bother to check at other travel agencies, I may get a lower price.

At the arrival hall, looked for the sign for bus to the city and is around the centre of the hall. After which always turn right at the other junction. Facing the bus terminal, Bus A21 is on the right side. It cost HK$33 ~ S$6.50 per person using Octopus card. There are luggage racks for luggages at the lower deck. We sit on the upper deck front row for good views.

Seat belts on the bus

Kap Shui Mun Bridge 汲水门大桥 is one of the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world that transports both road and railway traffic.

青马大桥 Tsing Ma Bridge is the world's seventh-longest span suspension bridge. The bridge was named after two of the islands at its ends, namely Tsing Yi and Ma Wan . It has two decks and carries both road and rail traffic.

Ting Kau Bridge 汀九桥

I take note of every stop bus A21 passes as I am afraid of alighting at the wrong stop. We alight at the 6th stop. Sincere House is just 2 roads away from where we alighted.

Ah Shan receiption is located at the 14th floor of Sincere House. And our room were also on the 14th floor.

I was really shocked when I saw the tiny small room even though my mum and sis have described it to me.

The toilet was also very tiny! It is one big step above the normal room level. I dont really like the fact that I have to climb up to get to the toilet. I used 1 of the 2 short chairs to make it easier to step into the bathroom. Thier bathroom door do not have lock attached to it @@

We set off immediately to the peak. Alighting from the central station, there are signs guiding us to the peak tram station. It was abt 10-15mins walk.

Li Kai Shing

Ticketing office

Card to access the tram. Octopus card can also be used.

It was a special experience taking the tram as the tram was moving at 45 degree gradient up to the peak.

The tram stopped at the peak which was the last station. 

It took us quite a wide to figure out how to go out of the building!

I think we spent almost 15min finding the way out.

All we need was just to take the escalator up all the way to the top.

The tourism board was in the tram at display.

Postbox. I actually want to send letter to Spore (in order tho get the special stamp chop) but after returning to the postoffice in the building, it was closed for the day.

We did not have lunch until now which was 2.30pm. Just a quite bite. This stall was in the bldg next to the peak. It was a shopping with almost no shopper.

We met a group of taiwan frenz and they offer to take photo for us.

They were surprised that Sporean can speak chinese. @@

There was nothing much to do at the peak other than exploring the scenary which we did not have enough time to do so. Hence we went to visit Madame Tussauds. Welcoming us was James Bond. 

Michelle Yeoh was also at the entrance. 

Andy Lau was under maintenance! How sad cos he was only the wax figure that have heart beat.

A group of reporters

Nicole kidman. She was really talllllllllll

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

Jay Chou at a corner. Hardly noticed him.

Cecilia Cheung

Leo Ku

4gt what's the name. Is a Korean pianist.

On stage with Aaron kwok.

Janice 衛蘭

Ayumi Hamasaki. Y was she sitting down?

Kelly Chen

Bae Yong Jun

Leslie Cheung

Princess Diana

The royal family

Speaking at the conference

Bill Clinton

Obama

Saddam Hussein

Hitler

Gandi

Madame Tussauds. Finally someone shorter than me.

William Shakespeare

Spotted me?

Mao Zedong

Yang Liwei - China astronaut

Jiang Ze Min

Zhou En Lai

Deng Xiao Ping

Our MM

Donald Tsang

Sun Zhong San

Wen Jia Bao

Hu Jing Tao

Physics

Astrogirl

Xiao Qiao in Red Cliff

There was this scream section which we didn went in. Need to buy another admission tix.

Marilyn Monroe

Pirates of the caribbean

Leon Lai

David Beckham

One of the China's olympics' winner

Yao Ming

Tiger woods

Muhammad Ali

Beetles

Michael Jackson

The photo speaks a thousand words

Twins

Teresa Teng

Joey Yeung

Anita Mui

Miriam Yeung

The end...We were rushing for time so I didn actually have a good look at the wax figure. Just take and go. I think it is not worth going Madame Tussauds HK for a 2nd time since most of the figures were Hongkongers and I dont think the frequency of displaying new wax figures are high.

We headed to sky terrace at abt 6.30pm but the fog was so thick. So dissappointed.

We met this Korean frenz @ the sky terrace. Initally I thought she was a Chinese as she came up and spoke Chinese to us. She was learning Chinese in school and her travel mate was sick so she went out to travel alone. It was quite an interesting experience as we were conversing in a mix of chinese, korean, English and "hand" language.

We went on to eat our dinner Temple St at Yau Ma Tei station. Searching around for quite sometime b4 ended up in this shop ordering 谭仔云南面缐 - HK21. 1 bowl shared among 3 of us.

Accidently order this garlic pork instead of yam paste.

Xiu lian was not feeling well so we did not shop at the temple St. And went back to our hotel.