Hong Kong

Wow wee was it tough leaving the kids at the children's centre, but we were excited for what lie ahead next, we shouldn't have. Due to bad weather in Beijing, we sat on the tarmac for 4.5 hours waiting for the weather to improve. This meant we were served dinner before we'd even left the ground and that we were still sitting on the tarmac when our scheduled arrival time to Hong Kong rolled around.
We finally arrived at our destination, Honkers at 2am in the morning. Lost, tired and looking for our hostel an American guy offered to help us with direction which was thoroughly appreciated at that hour of the morning, only to walk 4 blocks and realise the northerly direction he was so confident about was actually south. Back we walked!!
Finally, bed. The next day would be better and we would explore the city for the entire day. That was the plan until I woke up with diarrhoea. This persisted for the entire day. I had a spew for good measure, tried to down some maccas fries unsuccessfully and was too scared to go anyway for fear of shitting myself!
Fortunately that only lasted for a day and by the second day we were good to go again.
The next day we investigated the tram that takes you up the side of the mountain to a look out. The line was huge so we postponed that plan and headed for the botanical gardens where they had a frog pond (I know, incredible huh?!), plenty of feral cats that some crazy cat person feed each night and a bunch of monkeys. This botanical garden was pretty cool and free!
That evening we headed for the world's largest permanent sound and light show as labelled by Guinness world records. It was nice as was the walk down the Chinese avenue of stars that climaxed at the statue of Bruce Lee.
Day three saw Ned inherit a bad gut, but that didnt stop him getting amongst it. We caught a 5km cable car to a mountain that boasts the largest sitting Buddha statue in the world.
We boarded a tour that took us past stilted housed and dolphin spotting for Chinese white dolphins, they're actually pale pink and really cool and we were lucky enough to see some for about 30 seconds. That 30 seconds was enough for the boat driver to say he had provided what the tour advertised and we headed back to land.
A Chinese visa was got and a spontaneous decision to change plans and head to the Philippines was made.
And so my friends this is where one trip finishes and a new one beckons. Stay tuned for our next instalment. Your guess is as good as mine about what it might entail.