After yet another sleeper bus (a massive contradiction in terms..it is impossible to sleep on these rust buckets without the aid of prescription medication or John Toshack's mono-tone commentary on a meaningless UEFA cup qualifier) we made it to Hong Kong on Monday morning. As the cost of living in Honk Hong is a fair bit higher than anywhere else we'd been before we were forced to go in search of some more downmarket accomodation...we plumped for a cramped twin room in the imaginatively-titled "Chunking Mansions"...sounds great but these were mansions in the same way that Dublin's "Fatima Mansions" were mansions, in other words it was a dive but when you're supposed to be on a budget you need to conserve your cash for the important things (beer, food, more beer).
Our apartment was on the mainland part of Hong Kong (Kowloon) so we usually got a cool old ferry across to Hong Kong island when we wanted to do a bit of exploring. The skyline and views are pretty amazing. We took a tram up to the highest mountain peak to get a great view on the majority of Hong Kong, great 360 degree view with an urban jungle on one side and a deserted mountain rang on the other.
Oh yeah, we also get pretty drunk and felt up Bruce Lee but we're not proud of that one (ok maybe a little).
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