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Hong Kong Travel Guide

This year for Thanksgiving Josh was deployed but thankfully the boat pulled into port in Hong Kong and I flew out so we could spend it together. We only had a couple days there but it was worth it to spend Thanksgiving together.

Hong Kong was a British colony for over 150 years until 1997 when it reverted back to China. The conditions were that it would be part of China but would retain its capitalist economic system and partially democratic political system for 50 years. It definitely feels very western and there are a lot of European influences. I was also surprised at how many people travel there from other countries, it seemed like every shop or café we visited, people working there were from somewhere else.

We stayed in a great Airbnb in the Sheung Wan district, I didn’t do much research ahead of time because it was a last-minute trip but we got lucky with the location and happened to be right in the middle of tons of art galleries, coffee shops and markets. I would definitely stay in this area again. It took us about an hour by train to get there from the airport but the train system was super easy to use. For the most part we used the train system to get around but we also took taxis a couple times.

Our first morning we went up to Victoria’s Peak which is the highest hill on Hong Kong Island. We decided to take the tram up and it was amazing. It was so steep going up that it was a little bit scary but we were up at the top in a matter of minutes and we got to see some amazing views of the city.

The best thing to do here is just go out and walk around. There are so many little shops and outdoor markets and a lot of stuff is pretty cheap. We could easily go back and spend another week and still not see everything there is to see there. I would love to go back and see the big Buddha, fishing villages, some of the bigger markets and the Kowloon area.

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