National Holidays

The National Day of the People’s Republic of China is celebrated every year on October 1. This is when whole China is travelling (inside of china)! So as we all learned in my “China for Beginners-Lesson” (if you haven’t read it yet, you should stop here and read the other post first ;)), China counts about 1.3 billion citizens… So sit back and just quickly try to imagine a small percentage of these chinese people travelling inside china during the National Holiday…

Well, that’s what we did and so we decided on leaving the country as early as possible to get out of that “gschtunck” (that’s what my father would call it in swiss german…;))

I just quickly want to mention that that was our first holiday, after only 3 weeks of class J (I think we really deserved it, didn’t we?)  Couldn’t life always be like that????

I planned on going to the Philippines during these days… Flight was booked, luggages were packed! But as it happens in asia, not everything turns out the way you planned it… My passport wasn’t ready in the morning, it rained like hell and the taifuns were on in the Philippines, wandering to Hong Kong (my departure airport).. therefore my flight was delayed for about 10 hours!!

That meant change of plans for me!

In the end I stayed in Guangzhou until the Taifun had left Hong Kong and went there (Hong Kong) afterwards for 5 days. It was my second visit to Hong Kong and I really fell in love with that city! It is clean, people there don’t look at you as if you were an unknown species, they know to speak English and you can get western food if you’re up to it!

It was a really nice trip and we got to see a lot of things! We went to Lantau Island, the Big Buddha, Victorian Peak, Museum of Art, Avenue of Stars, Ladies Market (to my female friends.. you would absolutely love to shop there!!!), Lan Kwai Fong (Clubs & Bars Area) and to several Food Streets!!!!

Although HK is very expensive I would love to work there for 1 or 2 years!

Looks like someone has a new target ;)

xoxo V

PS: I think you will absolutely understand, that the last 2 weeks of school (my schedule: MO 9:00 am until 9:35 pm / WE 1:30 pm until 7:00 pm / TH 7:00 pm until 9:35 pm) were so exhausting, that I am now glad to have another holiday of one week…. So Travel-Girl will be gone to Hunan Province (China) and be back next Wednesday! Until then beloved readers enjoy life and I’ll be back with a bunch of stories!

Food Street in Hong Kong

 Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Ladies Market

Travel Group

Hong Kong by night

Me on the Avenue of Stars

Big Buddha