Spend Long Weekend at Hongkong

December 20th, 2009 | Author:

Many Hong Kong people called this place is the best shopping paradise of Asia. I initially was a bit hesitant with this claim. Shopping malls in Singapore and Indonesia was more magnificent and attractive in terms of design. Hong Kong may be superior because it is the entrance to the world fashion trends. Newer collections of international brands to appear first in Hong Kong Fashion Week, and then extended to other areas in Asia. What is hot in Indonesia this week, may have enjoyed the people in Hong Kong three weeks ago.

I did not diligently follow fashion trends. For business spending, the only Hong Kong’s attraction for me was the H & M, the department store is selling shirts with a good quality men relatively affordable price. This store has not opened branches in Singapore and Indonesia, although some of the goods labeled “made in Indonesia”. This is the consequence of the free market sucks, I have to cross the ocean as far as 3200 miles to buy a shirt that may be made of mothers neighbor’s house.

Hong Kong is divided into four major areas: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, Lantau Island, and New Territories. Size total approximately 1,100 square kilometers, almost double Jakarta, with a population of 7.2 million inhabitants. My last visit to Hong Kong is in the winter mid-November 2009. Temperatures reached 13 degrees in the morning. Although enough bone, but for residents, winter was an opportunity to appear fashionable with winter clothing collection.
My first impression of Hong Kong is a “solid”. Perhaps because the price of land is very expensive, most buildings do not have a page. Each building tightly coupled to the point that even in broad daylight shadows streets. Many buildings appear to adopt a similar design, simple box-like flats as they were built by the same architect. With limited visibility (we have to look up to see the roof), built a beautiful design of the building was redundant.

The next day I visited the Ocean Park is located on the edge of the sea. This place is older than Hong Kong Disneyland. One vehicle that makes Ocean Park special is the Panda Breeding cages. Giant panda imported from China in 2007. One was named An An, born in 1986 and weighs 100 pounds. Some cute animal’s behavior is like a dog. He ran on four legs (but eating with hands) and the like, shaking his head to wipe the water. Panda was also able to recognize his own name.

When a guard shouted his name from afar, he immediately came over. Ease a panda, he need not do anything to be liked. Simply sit back munching on bamboo leaves alone was adorable. Another object of my visit is the Noah’s Ark, the educational park for children located in the Noah’s Ark-shaped building (HK $ 55 tickets). That said, the exact size used ark Noah’s first. Here I found a lot of interactive games about science. The most exciting is the measurement of value box body. We only need to enter your weight info to the screen, then the computer will calculate our prices based on mineral content. If you want to visit the Noah’s Ark, you must arrive on time.

Way here over the bridge that requires a special permit with the tight schedule. If you arrive early or late from the time written on a license, you will be fined. Hong Kong is a city that strict rules apply in extreme levels; he competing with Singapore in the Nobel categories of discipline event. And as well as Singapore, the city is hostile to smokers. Fines for smoking in a non-smoking area of HK $ 5,000 (HK $ 1 = Rp1.200), three times more expensive than trash any fines.

On the last day, I visited the island of Cheung Chau. We took the ferry from Central Ferry Terminal (tickets HK $ 11.5) for 30 minutes. Cheung Chau is a true large fishing village. On the edge of the dock alone there were McDonald’s outlets, electronics stores Hitachi, DBS bank branch offices, and shops Circle K.
The roads on the island is very narrow, but there was no traffic, because none of the residents have cars. There’s only police cars, ambulances, and fire. I spent the afternoon with a walk to the fish market. Toward sunset, I stopped at the edge of the pier restaurant to eat seafood while watching the line of moored boats in the afternoon sunlight. This may be the face of Hong Kong in the past before it turned into a modern port city.