Hong Kong

Imagine a place where every street is like Oxford Street in London, but contains ten times as many people no matter what the time of day or night. Now add in a continuous flow of heavy traffic everywhere, a heavy dash of the Orient, and some of the ambience of Blade Runner and you've just about got Hong Kong.

To be fair, once you've got used to the jostling crowds and the russian roulette of crossing the roads it's not too bad a place to spend a short while.

We were only here for two days, and to make the most of it we crammed in as much touristy stuff as we could; thus here's the obligatory picture of the Star Ferry which we took from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island:

And of course, the famous skyline as seen from the Star Ferry at night on the way back:

A visit to the zoo and botanical gardens was a bit disappointing as most of it was shut down to prevent the spread of Avian Flu (lots of birds here), but we did take the Peak Tram up the (very) steep hill which overlooks Hong Kong and took in some exhilarating views.

The walk back down was very pleasant but the day was particularly hot and humid and so, by way of a change, we found a decent looking pub to have a few beers in.

Enough said.