Hong Kong is famous for their markets where you can buy trinkets, souvenirs, clothes...practically anything. Stanley Market is a common tourist attraction, located in Repulse Bay. It's a resort-type area where only the richest of the richest Chinese people live because 1. they can afford their own house (an apartment is still expensive!) and 2. they can afford the gas it takes to drive down to the city. Stanley Market is worth a look - but don't buy anything because it's quite expensive (they jack up the prices because some tourists don't know better) and you can buy the same stuff elsewhere for cheaper (like in Lady Street or Temple Street).
This was taken on the rocks near Repulse Bay/Stanley Market
This is a Daoist Temple near Shatin. We ate a vegetarian meal there...it was quite nice but not very filling for me. It was actually my first Chinese vegetarian meal! You will find many many many many temples (Daoist or Buddhist) in China and Hong Kong. There's even one on my campus!
If you ever go to Hong Kong, go to the Avenue of Stars at the coast of Kowloon. It's similar to the Hollywood Stars that you see in California. Famous/successful Chinese people can have their very own star on this walkway.
If you don't know who Andy Lau Tak-Wah is, he's a famous Cantopop singer, actor, and producer.
I think Jet Li is self-explantory!
This was taken at The Peak (on Hong Kong Island). It's the highest point in Hong Kong where you can overlook the city. At night, there is a light show where you can watch each building light up with their own lights (kind of like a crazy, techno rave show :-p) It's best if you watch it from the Kowloon side. And only worth seeing once, in my opinion.
In Wan Chai (on HK Island, close to Victoria Harbour) and... my first time playing Dice!! It's a Chinese drinking/gambling game. If you've ever seen Pirates of the Caribbean 2, where Orlando Bloom is on Davy Jones' ship, playing/gambling for his father's sentence...that game he's playing with the dice and the cup is called Dice. Very fun...but hard to explain. Oh, by the way, the legal drinking age in Hong Kong is 18 :-)
The part of Wan Chai that we were in is where the bars/escort services are located. Westerners get treated very well, but especially the males (I wonder why?). If you are white and walking down Lockhart Road in Wan Chai, you will get females from strip clubs try to get you to come inside their club.
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