However I can’t really remember how HK was then…but I realised a massive change straight away - the location of the airport!!!! It used to be close to the center of city, so the aircrafts flew above the towering buildings and it seemed likely to hit something…but this time the flight was quite safe and I couldn’t see such buildings or anything else (although this was partially due to it raining).
I suppose I’ve been to the popular places in HK before so I’m going to tell you about the more obsecure ones where I went this time.
Conrad’s Executive Lounge and Room on 59F
What a fantastic room it was!!! I haven’t been to such a room before. If you want to know how the room was, well, please try to book it! But let me show you the landscape from there (though the weather wasn’t so nice then). Well I know this issue isn’t concerned about HK at all…but that doesn’t matter to me!
Kowloon Walled City Park
There used to be a notorious slum here until the mid 80's in HK but now it has become a quiet park. There were a few of walls with a round entrances, which seems to be quite popular among Chinese historical architecture.
Though the area around the park was still a bit unorganized it was very interesting as I could feel real local life in HK.
Ngong Ping Cable Car and Tian Tan Buddha Statue
These are located on Lantau Island and I guess many Japanese tourists wouldn’t know about them and also my guidebook (in Japanese) doesn’t have so mach information about them. I guess this is because most of all tourists from Japan go to HK for only 3 or 4 days. So if you have more time in HK I think they’re good to visit...anyway have you been on a cable car for around 30 mins !?!? Ngong Ping Cable Car runs about 5.7km and it turns left within 10 mins so you couldn’t see the last terminal from the starting terminal. Finally I’ve found the big Buddha statue on - I haven’t seen such an outside Buddha statue which was on the top of a mountain before so it seemed quite interesting view for me.
