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Today has been super hot (although I do think it’s only around 30degreesC), and we walked up hill (plus around a million stairs!) to Hong Kong park. Blaghgh, not fun. Therefore we were made of fail and had to bail on Beckie, we’d planned to go up to the Peak in the evening but we were more or less dead! Anyway, tomorrow we’ll take it easy, rest up, and then on Saturday we’re going on a hike (I’m told it’ll be not so strenuous! this heat is killing us if we have to do anything more than stroll!). Due to our ridiculous heat fatigue we ended up eating at a couple of chain places again (yoshinoya and cafe de coral), although to be fair it’s just basic rice and meat dishes (at cafe de coral) and ramen/noodles (yoshinoya) which is sometimes all you want. For two ‘rice with roast duck’ and drinks at cafe de coral it was $68 (about £6.50), and for two chicken with kelp ramen at yoshinoya it was a measly $36 (£3.50). Existing in Hong Kong on a budget is super easy… Oh! We also got some sweet buns for breakfast that were less than 40p each!

I also got kinda weirded out by this poster so had to take a photo (this was right by an aviary, so it’s not completely random). The health notices seem to be pretty regular in HK, be it hand washing, preventing flu (mainly swine right now), telling people not to spit ‘please wrap your spittle’, ‘this handrail is disinfected 4 times a day’ honestly, if that was the UK it would read ‘this handrail is disinfected never, in fact, we probably wipe it with a cloth that’s 10x dirtier than it’. I dunno, is it our goverment being kinda lax with health issues? I mean, I know HK is pretty (read, VERY) scared about health issues since the SARs outbreak… or is it a bit over the top? I think we might go look at those people locked in that hotel tomorrow.

Not far from the flower market you can find the Bird Garden/Market where loads of old guys gather to sell and socialise their birds. There were a lot of white-eyes (not sure if they were the japanese white eye? they looked smaller…) and lovebirds in cages of all varieties. Here’s a couple of photos, you can find more on my flickr.

We took a trip to the flower market up near Prince Edward MTR this morning. Located on flower market street (well, what else could they build there??) are loads of flower stores selling the likes of fantastical orchids, bonsai, and random flowers you’ve never seen before. I don’t think they allow photography in some of the stalls, but I took them anyway!

I always enjoy taking photos of jellyfish, it’s usually a pretty challenging place to get photos, what with no light and only back illumination. Granted I usually bump my ISO right to the top, but still, you can get some really pretty photos! I seem to manage to take photos of jellies in every country I go to (Australia, Canada.. don’t think I have any from the US though). Here’s one I took yesterday at Ocean Park.

Just sat down by the harbour area next to avenue of stars, here’s a crappy photobooth photo of the view. That’s all central HK over there, we’re sat in Kowloon. Spent a relaxing (kinda!) day visiting some markets (bird, flower and jade) and hanging out in front of a starbucks. Had a big breakfast at the Australian Dairy Company (Adam would like to point out that it exist on Parkes St., Parkes being the place he goes to astronomise/observe in Australia) of macaroni in a chickeny broth thing with ham and the best-eggs-ever!