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This place is nuts! I love this place and I’ve finally found a new LX3 camera to replace the one dropped and smashed in the jungles of Ecuador, which seems like years ago now! Due to the crappy pound it was actually more than I paid for it in the UK but who cares. Here are the first pics!

This is the “Symphony of Light”. Every night at 8pm sharp the buildings of the legendary Hong Kong skyline come alive. Over 40 of them are kitted out with all manner of lights, all over them, on top of them, lasers and search lights all linked to a 15 minute music track. This is the view from Kowloon over to Hong Kong Island but buildings behind also do their thing so it’s probably worth seeing it from the island too. Or on a cruise!

The famous Chinese Junk.

Neon everywhere of course. Not quite blade runner but the sights, smells, noise and lights made this one thing I’m not going to forget.

There seems to be a market for everything here and if not you really can buy anything. There’s a Flea, Night, Jade, Ladies, Bird, Goldfish, Mobile Phone, Second Hand electronics and countless electronics and computers markets. I had to restrain myself. The Golden Computer Arcade is a gadget lovers dream and Nathan road is chock full of camera shops. Not all as honest as they could be for sure! If if sounds too good to be true then it defo is! etc etc blah blah.

Wallet did well though, out of 7 gadgets I eyed up I only bought 2!

This is in the Goldfish market. It’s more of a street where all the shops just happen to sell the same thing but quite a sight. With your fish you can also buy puppies, rabbits and gerbils, turtles, frogs, seahorses and pet shrimps by the looks of it. Quite hard to deal with some things here if you think start thinking about animal welfare.

Told you! This little fellow is about £13.

The Peak, get a tram up to the top of the peak on Hong Kong Island and you find a big smiley face. Of it’s actually full of shops like everything else here. Lovely views though.

We’re staying in Chungking Mansions, a right old melting pot of people and things. Last night we arrived back to find the place full of police. Checking everyone in and out and obviously searching for someone. After getting our hand stamped to say we were innocent we retired to our room. We’re staying in a Guest House (Maple Leaf Guest House) which is lovely, completely spotless and new. Really it’s an apartment split into a few rooms with a little hallway where a man sits sometimes but generally it’s unstaffed. So it was me who opened the door following some rather forceful banging. I was greeted by a mass of police completely filling the outside corridor. I’m sure they’re very good at their job but these guys are certainly not intimidating and it was all a bit of an anticlimax when they left. They didn’t even look under the bed . They should have done!