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Dirk Masters visited Hong Kong over the Christmas Holidays and wanted to share his experience with us. What a great opportunity!!!!!! Thank you for sharing it with us!
My Trip to Hong Kong
Dirk Masters
Over Christmas break, my family and I traveled to Hong Kong, china. We stayed actually on Hong Kong Island and traveled back and forth across Victoria Harbor to the Kowloon side, which technically is mainland China but still considered part of Hong Kong. Kowloon means “nine dragons.” Hong Kong is very westernized. If you exclude the Asian facial features and the Chinese language, you feel like you are in a very large US city, such as New York or Los Angeles. It is very difficult to believe you are half way around the globe. There are billboards, signs, stores, and people everywhere…lots and lots of people. Did I mention a lot of people?
One of the coolest things I like about Hong Kong was all the really exotic cars. What you didn’t see was Kia, Hyundai, Mazda, Ford, Chevrolet, and GM. You only saw Honda and Toyotas if you were hailing a taxi. You saw the “average” family driving BMW’s and Mercedes. You mostly saw cars like Ferraris, Bugattis, Lamborghinis, and Porsches. Not just a few of these, but multiple cars passing you on the street. On one floor of a parking deck, I counted three Ferraris, two Ducati motorcycles, five (FIVE!) Lamborghinis and three (THREE!) Pagani Zonda R hotrods! What gets me is the roads are so narrow and winding; no car owner of these cool cars is able to drive the vehicle to its full potential. Knowing the American purchase price of such a car and knowing the import cost of such a car in Hong Kong, I can only imagine how wealthy some of these people must be!
While on our trip, we visited Hong Kong Disneyland to compare the differences to Walt Disney World in Florida. First of all, the entire park is smaller than just the Magic Kingdom in Florida. They do have Space Mountain, but it is only one coaster and the seats are two across instead of front to back like at the park in the Florida. The train doesn’t travel as fast, either. The biggest difference between the two parks was the size of Cinderella castle. In Florida, the castle is really tall; but in Hong Kong, it is fairly small. The most popular attraction in Hong Kong Disney is “It’s a Small World.” This ride had a huge entrance and also the longest wait. They didn’t have Frontier Land or the Haunted Mansion. Our friend told us the Asian people are very superstitious about death and would never have any kind of ride that would depict spirits or ghosts.
I saved the best to last…food! I attached a picture of me eating Dim Sum. It is basically lots of little dishes, (maybe two to three pieces of food per dish) that you pretty much have no idea what you are eating! I’m eating squid (I think) in this picture. Chinese food in Hong Kong is not like the Chinese food we eat in the States. I was really glad to get back home to have a real cheeseburger!
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