After our longest flight ever and limited sleep, we were glad to get back on solid ground even if we were a little warm. We got a train and shuttle bus to Nathan Rd in Kowloon (we knew we were in for trouble on a road named Nathan). We thought we saw the hostel we booked on the third floor of a building and headed towards it, this was the start of constant hawking (people on the street trying to sell you things mainly accommodation, suits and watches). Anyway we fought out way past these people and made our way through an indoor market and up some stairs turned out there was more than one. So back down, fighting past more hawkers until we reached the 'Chung King Mansion' where we saw a person who said he would take us to our hostel, lies!!! He took us to another block, telling us they were all the same even though we knew we were in block c, more lies!! We told him that we had paid for about the millionth time (ok maybe a slight exaggeration , but only slight) so we did as brave sir robin (Monty python ref. for you Americans as i know jokes have to be explained to you) and ran away. We found block c and made it to our hostel although it was meant to be on floor 16 and the lift only went to 15 but turned out a bunch were the same hostel. We chilaxed for a bit before wondering down to the harbour as we heard a laser show happened every night at 8 although it got very misty and a little drizzly so we couldn't see the lasers although we got a good view of Hong Kong island and the famous neon lights. We then wondered round to find somewhere to eat for the first time in Asia and found a gem of a place called Hing Phat. We then headed back slowly and crashed out for the night.
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