Hong Kong

Such a culture shock, Hong Kong is the complete opposite of Ghana. All of the buildings here are a million storeys high and everything is super clean and organised. Sitting in an internet cafe at the moment so hungover as went out in Wan Chai last night with the lovely girls in our room. Mike is sleeping on the floor at the moment but they don't seem to mind.
Hong Kong is amazing I love it here. Although it is horribly expensive. We got in late Monday night so just went to our hostel and stayed up a bit talking to Hannah, Jenny and Sophia, the girls in our room. Tuesday we spent a lot of time trying to get around and getting a bit confused. There are some buits of Hong Kong island where you can't walk on the street, you have to use covered walkways between the buildings. Eventually we figured this out and caught a bus up to the Peak which is a big hill overlooking all of Hong Kong. It was a bit misty but it was so lovely and we could see so much. The buildings here are so tall. We met an American woman who told us about her favourite restaurant in quarry bay so we went there after and it was crap. So expensive and food was minging so we were a bit annoyed after that. I think she got commission from them. That was pretty much our whole day although it doesn't sound like much. We came back to the room and went with the girls to the Temple Street night market. The lights up Nathan road are brilliant there are just huge lit up signs for everything hanging over the whole street. Market was good but not that cheap and lots of rubbish being sold.
Wednesday was the best day ever. We got up really early and went to the Sin Sin temple (I don't have a guide book here with me so some of the names might be a bit off). It was already quite crowded with people lighting incense sticks and praying. There was a pretty garden bit at the back with lots of walkways over water. Then we went to Nam Lian Garden which is the best place in the whole world I could live there. It is a beautiful, really carefully planned garden near diamond hill and it is just so beautiful. It's designed to make you feel really calm and it does. There's a monastary up the top with lots of shrines to Buddha. It's so difficult to describe but it was just brilliant. Then we went to a pretty rubbish electronics market where most things were same as english prices. Bought a memory card though to try and avoid any further camera troubles. Then went and posted our package of goodies home. Then went to the Hong Kong Cultural Museum and learned all about Hong Kong and it's histroy. The museum was really well done, with loads of interesting stuff but not so well laid out so think we may have missed some bits out. Had a nap then went out in the eve to this bar where all the drinks were free. Bit mental. Can't remember much except laughing lots with Jenny and Mike.
So all in all Hong Kong is brilliant but expensive, we are hugely over budget. Ah well hopefully china will be cheaper! We leave today so I will update when I'm next near internet xx