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So I last left you in Auckland taking the flight to HongKong.
I arrived to hongkong after a flight that was really nice and passed fast, I reached the city pretty easily and descended from the bus to the station where I got a recommendation for a cheap place to sleep. Right when I come off the station I see the area is like the tachana merkazit in israel, just with huge skyscrappers. Straight away a chinese guy jumps on me to offer me a place to sleep, since it's in the same place where I got a recommendation I followed him, he led me to miridor mansion, which is a huge building full of foreign workers and backpackers looking for cheap place to stay, we went to the 13 floor and he showed me the room for 60HK dollars I get a dump, with 8 other people sleeping in the office with dirty sheets and dirty everything, I said no thank you and went down to the 12 floor where the guest house i was recommended could be found. But since it was already 21:00 it was full, so I had to go back and sleep in that dump.
The positive thing was that I met a swedish and dutch guy who talked to me a lot about china.

Hong Kong and China

Omer Ramote
2006-10-23 14:35:49

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So I last left you in Auckland taking the flight to HongKong.
I arrived to hongkong after a flight that was really nice and passed fast, I reached the city pretty easily and descended from the bus to the station where I got a recommendation for a cheap place to sleep. Right when I come off the station I see the area is like the tachana merkazit in israel, just with huge skyscrappers. Straight away a chinese guy jumps on me to offer me a place to sleep, since it's in the same place where I got a recommendation I followed him, he led me to miridor mansion, which is a huge building full of foreign workers and backpackers looking for cheap place to stay, we went to the 13 floor and he showed me the room for 60HK dollars I get a dump, with 8 other people sleeping in the office with dirty sheets and dirty everything, I said no thank you and went down to the 12 floor where the guest house i was recommended could be found. But since it was already 21:00 it was full, so I had to go back and sleep in that dump.
The positive thing was that I met a swedish and dutch guy who talked to me a lot about china.

The next day I moved to the better place, which is still very very small(that's what you get in hongkong for cheap price) but at least it was clean. I booked a bed for yaniv too and went to roam the city with the swedish guy.
Hong kong is a nice city except everywhere you go there are indian people trying to sell you a rolex or a suit or just a lunch, and they never leave you alone.
Anyways Yaniv came on the afternoon, we met and then went to do the visa to china.
We travelled another day in Hongkong and then we set off to china.
When passing the border to china we were really scared, I mean we heard a lot of bad stuff about china and how to get along, but the beginning was easy enough, we successfully bought a train ticket to guilin, the first place we wanted to get to, which is a 16 hours train!!!.

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