only 5 days to go

Update: as mentioned before i finally added all picture contents to this blogentry; thanks for your patience, live long and prosper.

sadly my time in hong the kong is running out and i'll return to vienna on wednesday night;
but fortunately i can say by now, that i have visited all important places by now, so in this blogpost, i'll tell you about the 3 last ones.

Aberdeen

Tuesday afternoon i decided to finally go to aberdeen, a part of hong kong that is famous for it's harbour and at last, i can tell there is not too much to see but this harbour...
the town itself is just a common living environment but going by boat between the streets built of hundrets of boats and fishing ships is really quite cool;
and with the shuttleferry for the jumbo floating restaurant, you got even a boat tour for free!
the jumbo floating restaurant itself is a quite weird construction,
it's an pretty old restaurant floating in the harbour decorated with plenty of cliche;elements like huge dragons with glowing eyes and this stuff, totally overdone after all, but fun to watch.





as i wanted to save money i got myself for about 1,2 euro sweet sour pork with rice, sounds cheap but also tasted cheap, the pork was actually only something like fried bones...eeewww i just couldn't eat that, so happily i got invited by mandy and her friends to join them going to a quite good restaurant that was truely worth every dollar.

Sai Kung
the next day i followed the recommendations of several people and went to sai kung,
alas i wasted too much time before, so i had just about one hour to stay here, but it was quite nice.

sai kung is a region at the sea including many of very small islands which looks really wonderful.
you can go to the pier and buy fish frome the fishers who sell it right form the boat, so i don't think you could get it any fresher elsewhere.
in general a really nice place; i wish i had more time but on that evening i had to leave my apartment to move to joes aoartment where i'm now staying.






Lamma Island

as i woke up after a long night visiting some amazing clubs (in Hong Kong they got those clubs on the 30th floor where you can enjoy the full view over the city, pretty cool, particularly if the music and the clubsetting is cool too, which was actually the case...)i noticed the weather was too perfect again to waste the day with
sleeping so i got up and made my way to lamma island.

Lamma island is the third largest island of Hong the kong and i don't know what to say, it was just beautiful there!
i like it as good as peng chau (see previous posts) because they don't got any traffic there and you got a really nice island atmosphere,
the only con is the big powerstation which can be seen from every point of the island and produces a weird impression, together with the rest of the very natural island atmosphere.

Lamma also offers some of the best beaches of Hong Kong (altouth i wouldn't go swimming at the most of them because mostly the water is just too dirty)
and of course very cute fishing villages full of all-day-relaxing-island people,
so i got a really delicious lunch (fish and prawns with rice, vegetables and a garlic-ginger sauce) and some fisherboat pictures, which i can't get enough from..
finally i followed the trial to Sok Kwu Wan village, which is placed at a very flat and really cool looking beach.
there i met a german speaking couple who told me tha i could take the ferry to aberdeen instead of waiting 90 minutes for the next going to HK central;
so i had, at last, a ride on a small ferry on the open deck, which was kinda cold but of course very nice.

















in the night i joined my friends at a korean dinner in a very good restaurant,
i,ve never eaten korean food before but now i just can say that i'm looking forward to do that again;
they have little grilling places integrated into the table and serve just a huge amount of all kinds of flesh, togeher with plenty of free beverages,
delicious!
afterwards we went to have some desert at a place where you get some kind of milk pudding, nobody could tell me how they do that but its a typical chinese dish and tasted surprisingly well!

by the way, i'm now writing from joe's notebook, so i'll place my thanks for letting me do that (and of course for everything else) here.

next blogpost could be the last from hong kong so keep on klicking the refresh button!