Time to wrap up the last part of my trip to Hong Kong. To help ensure a smooth transition from holiday to reality, we made sure that our trip would have covered as much of this small country as we can to avoid regrets that is. Being said that this country isn’t all that big, it really shouldn’t be too hard to visit most of the places within a week. That is unless you’re too caught up with shopping ahah. To finish off the last day in Hong Kong, we had a choice of either visiting Macau or Lama Island. But a trip to Macau is quite ripoff and having heard there isn’t much to do, there really wasn’t a point for the ladies to suffer a 1 hour boat ride considering they both suffer from sea sickness. So Lama Island it was. Just had to take a train to central before getting on to the jetty for a 20 minute boat ride. It was quite short really and my sister was already dying ahaha.
Just got off the boat @ the Lama Island Jetty. The architecture is pretty well aged in Lama Island. Loved how there would be mosses growing on the buildings. There was also a certain effect on how the houses were positioned as if they were arranged on terraces to especially provide this “effect”. This place is really a good change of environment when you’ve been in the concrete jungle for too long. Sometimes in the city all you see is metal framed boxes that really just get you nauseous especially with loud mouth people everywhere, 360 degrees.
Lots of bicycles just outside the jetty. Most of the roads here are no more than 3 metres wide. Obviously there won’t be any cars here at all. But there were some other pests that looked like an ATV “pick-up” truck version. They were roaming all over like stray dogs. SO annoying. But I guess they didn’t have much of a choice considering they were upgrading the infrastructure on the island. Then there were this three ladies sitting by the jetty showing their fine fishing artistry. Approx 1 small fish every 10 seconds. @@!
It didn’t take long for us to feel hungry! We were looking for food and started looking around the restaurants near the jetty and let me tell you its a fckin rip off! But at times like this I somewhat felt like succumbing to their ridiculous pricing. O well, at least my mom had her principles right. 280HKD for 2 miserable mantis prawns lol. And just because this is an island, it doesn’t mean the seafood is fresh. It’s shit FYI. So we headed towards a beach area to see what we could find. Walked through all the small lanes which really feels so nice for some reason :S! Am I a village boy? omg. Walked for like err 2-3km and we finally reach the beach but there wasn’t any seafood barbecue happening because we didn’t know they only have it at night unless you’ve booked beforehand!
The beach!
However, although the restaurant did not have decent meals for us, they did have something else :)!
The cheapest and smoothest tau foo fa mmmmm! It was like err 6hkd or 7hkd per bowl. Really cheap as I remember the one @ the Buddha statue was at least 10! Put some cane sugar powder and yumms!!
Walked around Lama Island for awhile and we didn’t really know where our destination was. Just pretty much walked where the roads would take us. And by the time we know it, we were kinda lost. But dad and I just kept on walking while mom and sister panicked a little ahah. Walk through to some lanes which we saw large machines putting large rocks by the shore to prevent additional erosion.
Wicked machines! Imagine them suddenly transforming into those big badass robot in Transformers! Probably sink Lama Island hehe!
I didn’t get too many pictures of this trip to Lama Island. There wasn’t really much to take truth to be said. Not to mention the weather was cloudy with cool moisture streaming in from China. This place however has a good environment to get absorbed into for awhile ahah. After walking for a super long time, we headed back to the jetty for a rip off meal which was crap! O well. Learnt our lesson :P!! We headed back to central to check out my jeans @ Harvey Nichols but disappointingly there weren’t any. HK is too Japanese inspired. I don’t see those low-key cult European brands in HK! A bit disappointing but it’s fine. Now that I’m back in Perth I can indulge in denims I want! Ksubi? Nudie? hmmm.
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