Hot Hong Kong

We have had 2 great days here. Weather hot and humid. It was a great place for a stopover to try to deal with jet lag.
Leaving on a 12:35 lunchtime flight from ORT was a novelty but arriving 12 hours later at 7 o clock in the morning kind of does your head in.
Landing at the new HKIA on Lantau Island has none of the white knuckle stuff that accompanied landing at Kai Tak Airport and getting from the airport on Lantau Island to our digs on Kowloon was a doddle. Talking of white knuckles, we spent today at Ocean Park, a huge amusement park near Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island. We all did the Raging River (a log ride in water), only I went on the Mine Train, a long roller coaster, and Kaz and Rebecca went on the swings. We saw the dolphin show and loads of beautiful birds in aviaries. The highlight of the day though was seeing Giant Pandas and red Pandas too. Absolutely amazing!
We travelled in the park on foot, long escalators and cable cars. Of course it is quite ironic that one can plan a holiday so well and then not realise that today is a public holiday in HK and so we shared the park with loads of locals too.
Travelled to and from HK Island on the Star Ferry which is always a fun way to get around. Hovered around the Pier after we got back to Kowloon to watch the Symphony of Lights where they use lasers and light up some of the skyscrapers on the island and put it all to music. Well done and not drawn out.
Yesterday we found our way into Tsim Sha Tsui on the Airport Bus without a hitch and arrived at our guest house at 9 o clock. We checked into our room which was clean, comfortable and compact. We then dropped bags, had a quick change and hit the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui. We took a leisurely stroll through the Kowloon Gardens (nice aviary there too) towards Mong Kok where we investigated the Ladies Market, the electronic goods street and then ventured further up towards Prince Edward where we chanced on the Flower Market street and the Bird Garden. These 2 were more like it, shops full of colourful orchids and in the latter people taking caged birds for walks. Interesting to see the bags of grasshoppers for sale, obviously bird food!

To save poor BW from totally overheating, we then caught the MTR subway back down to our neck of the woods. Had a Vietnamese supper and then straight to bed which is where I am heading too. We have a very early start as we need to catch the bus to the airport at about 6am.