Hong Kong aka 'Skyscrapersville'

Hong Kong is an amazing city, they seemed to have crammed a riduculous amount of people in a really small space and yet they get away with it through there organisation and infrastructure. The MTR is brilliantly efficent and the place is so nice and clean. I suppose a near NZ$100 fine for spitting or littering does the trick, maybe we should introduce this to NZ.

We stayed on Hong Kong Island the land you can see immediately behind Nadia in the photo below. Across that short body of water is Kowloon.

Above- After taking one of the steepest trains in the world we arrived at a lookout building which offers 360 degree panaramic views of the city. It is only then that you realise how many skyscrapers there are. Lots of these buildings are not all for businesses, but also residential living for the many people living there.
Every night in Hong Kong at 8pm, there is a laser light show from the top of some of the tallest the buildings within the central city. It is the largest and longest serving light show in the world and were well worth the look.

Above- statue of Bruce Lee from the Parade of Stars on Kowloon.

Nadia managed to catch up with David Beckham (at Madame Tussad's) before we even hit London, unfortunately I couldnt find Posh anywhere.........

Random poses and silly photos a plenty in the Madam Tussauds wax museum. I think Nadia had me take her photo with every single wax sculpture in there (except for the random Asian stars that we hadn't heard of).

Tiger just wasn't getting it, he was picking the wrong line so I gave him the heads up.

Above- The Reunification Monument to signify the signing over from British rule back to the Chinese in 1998. Despite China taking over there seems to be very few changes that have occured in Hong Kong as a result.

On our last night in Hong Kong we were treated to one night of luxury. The crew at Colenso (the advertising agency at Frucor) gave me a leaving present of 1 night at the Harbourside Renaissance on the harbour of Hong Kongs Wanchai District. The corner room had views of the harbour, Kowloon and the pool pictured below.

Housekeeping come in at night to 'turn down' the bed and there were enough goodies in the bathroom to start your own 'body shop' store. All this extrvagance did come at a cost, we just had to enquire as to how much a room like that would set the average punter back and apparently for NZ$640 per night you can stay there too. I'm sure the agency will be pleased to know that I amost certainly would have made some of that money back on the buffet breakfast, where I gorged myself on.

Nadia managed to get poolside and one of the highlights was the pool boys who run around spraying cool mist on your face to keep you refreshed- yes this place was extravagance personified!

Thats all for Hong Kong- next stop Dubai.