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A short diary (log) of my activities
Wednesday 12/2/2003
Preparing the travel at home: changing 200 US$, about 500 €.
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Day 1 - Thursday 13/2/2003
Fly from Europe to Asia...
Starting at 05:00 at Bozen with Diego's car to Munich /
Germany for the fly to Amsterdam (10:30-12:15). Departure from Amsterdam to
Hong Kong (11 hours) on 16:25. Drinking Whisky over Moscow.
Amazed by some chinese mountains in the morning of the new day.
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Day 2 - Friday 14/2/2003
First experiences in Hong Kong...
Arriving Hong Kong airport. Exchanging 200 € to 1.554,7
HK$. Using the Airport Express (100 HK$) to reach Hong
Kong Island (the
city check-in Terminal - Star bucks Coffee). Calling Martin 13:30, waiting,
greetings, taxi-driving
to Pokfulam St.
John's College. Visiting Valerie and picking
the key. Check-in in the room 909. First visit of Kennedy Town.
Going out with Martin, Andi & Barbara in the nice clubs of the
center streets and meeting some German friends of Martin.
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Day 3 - Saturday 15/2/2003
Beach day in the Southern island...
Lunch at the the East
Ocean Seafood Restaurant at the Quarry Bay (Hong
Kong Island South) with Michelle Kwan? (first real chinese food experience).
Enjoying the Beach.
Shopping at the Stanley
Bay. At Night dinner at Fat
Angelo (Italian
Restaurant) and nice "Clubbing" in the HK center streets with
Martin, Andi and Barbara. Always acquainted with friends of Martin, mainly
Germans....
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Day 4 - Sunday 16/2/2003
Deep in the city and on the peak...
Extensive visiting of
Kennedy Town. After popular streets of the center.
Some shopping. Amazed by old Chinese food and new modern buildings. Boattrip
to Kowloon for
clothes of Martin. Back to HK
center.
Visiting The
Peak at
night using Peak
Tramways Company for 20 HK$. Good bye from Andi and Barbara. Tasting some
fast food Chinese soups.
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Day 5 - Monday 17/2/2003
The dirty roads in Kowloon...
Visiting The
University of
Hong Kong (oldest in HK). With Metro to Kowloon.
Informing for our trip to China. Booking our fly to Guilin (1.200 CNY) with China
Eastern Airlines in the China
Travel Service Hong Kong in Nathan Road.
Crazy shopping in a little audio/video/mobile shop. Really tipical chinese "snack
bar", King
Taylor's take measure
on us ;-) and later a "Restaurant". First experience
with rats.... Cool night. Back to HK.
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Day 6 - Tuesday 18/2/2003
Skyscrapers and the longest night...
To Kowloon China
Travel Service Hong Kong receiving our visa for China.
Nice pictures of the HK skyline. Boat to center and visiting
some skyscraper. To Kennedy Town with a Tram and
taking pictures of the tipical market. In the center and
to Kowloon for checking our clothing. Back to center for
long night with one hour vodka for 100 HK$. Speeking with "Jackie Chans's
brother". No sleeping.
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Day 7 - Wednesday 19/2/2003
Guilin - a normal (south) chinese city...
Directly
packing the luggage and going to city center (bus), Kowloon (Metro)
and cross the border to Shen Zhen (Train). Taxi to the
outside (20km) located Airport.
Flying to Guilin. Finding Mister Frank Jiang: he organized
for us the next 2 days (naturally for some cash *g*). Check-in in the New
Plaza Hotel. Journey to the Crown
Cave in the outskirt of Guilin. Sightseeing trip
through Guilin by foot. "chinese dinner" at Mc Donalds. City by
night.
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Day 8 - Thursday 20/2/2003
Beautiful hills, caves and experiences in
Yang Shuo...
Breakfast
with traditional chinese stuff (cooked fish, wan ton, steam-cooked algae,
tee...) Move to a Li Yang harbour. Departure for the 80
km Li River boat trip. Along the river passing the romantic countryside
with hundreds of small hills
and peeks with bamboo wood. Lunch on boat with chinese food and slow movement
down to Yang Shuo. During the trip we met a lovely young chinese couple who
tried to explain us what we were eating by showing us the chinese signs in
our little
travel-dictionary. The trip took 4 hours. A girl waited at the Yang
Shuo harbour for showing us
the Happy
Hotel. Check-in short break in the room and start to a city-discovery
tour. Enjoying
the local Yang
Shuo Park by paying 20? RMB. Climbing the Xilang Hill for
a photo-session and a short, but good movie. Exploration of the tourist-trap-market,
red-light streets and discovery of a little tea-shop for the
local people. Two or more hours of tasting different kinds of teas with the
appropriate ceremony. Finally
sale of tea and tea-cups...and Diego looking for a toilet. Very good fish-dinner
with river-food in a clean restaurant, nevertheless one rat couldn't be hidden.
Night-pictures
of the river and some buildings.
Day 9 - Friday 21/2/2003
To the countryside with bikes and back to the border...
Slow waking up in the room. The shower in the bathroom was very cold with
not really cold water. After a western oriented breakfast we start for
our organized bike tour with our young and merry guide
from the hotel. We reach popular hills like the Camel
Hill in the surroundings of the village. On the way old Chinese with their
junk-souvenir besieged us. Near the Moon Hill and a moody cave we receive
a "traditional lunch". We turn back to the hotel. After we had
looked around the tourist
places, we took the bus to Guilin and then a
taxi to the airport. Our airplane to Shen Zhen was late
for more then 2 hours. After we had largest problems to explain the taxidriver
the destination to the Shangri
La hotel, we met finally Martin in the fine "house-bar".
We took a rather bad 3-bed-room (in another hotel) and enjoyed after an
Portuguese-asiatic
dinner the foreigner bonus when going out into the "hardcore-discos".
Day 10 - Saturday 22/2/2003
Shopping in Shen Zen and Fondue in Hong Kong...
Rather later then former we applied to our Shopping route into
the paradise of pirat copies close to the border. Naturally we only look
for Watch
Replicas like this *g*. You can also find DVDs, famous label clothes,
ecc.
With our things we took the train back to Hong Kong in order
to meet in the last evening with several students to the Hot
Pot Fondue -
a tipical local restaurant. The free beer we naturally
impudently used - Chinese
do not consume so much *g*
Day 11 - Sunday 23/2/2003
Last Morning and fly from Asia to Europe...
After the comfortable city-check-in we use for the second
time the Airport Express and fly back to Europe with another KLM Boeing 747. A small ill-bred
boy in the row before us, held us busy. In Amsterdam we
had to wait for the airplane to Munich.
We was really tired! Our immediate travel home with the car to Bozen was
rather laborious.
but our conclusion: we love China...!!!
