Second a Day in Hong Kong

So we started the day off by having some delicious dim sum at the Michelin Star Restaruant, Tim Ho Wan

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After eating lunch, we headed to the Big Buddha statue at Lantau Island (got of art Tug Ching station and taxied it over. Apparently different taxi colors reprewebt which island they’re allowed to serve on. Blue was the color for Lantau. Also, Iner couldn’t bring us to the statue since they don’t have a permit). As we got closer to the statue, you could office he difference with the surroundings (it looked more like a 2nd to 3rd world country. Jas said it looked like parts of China).

Here are some pics from the statue:

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After coming back from the Big Buddha (again, we taxied it over), we went back to Tung Chung station, where I tried out the Pizza Hut. I have to say Pizza Hut in Asia is on a different level than North America.

   
  
 
After Pizza Hit, we headed back to my Hotel, where I napped for a couple of hours. After, I was ready to hit the clubs in LKF.

We started at a bar called Soiree in SOHO (SOHO is where more of the fancier bars are), where I met two of Jasmin’s friends (Teresa and Derek). I got myself a lychee martini. After, we went to another bar in SOHO called Little Lab, where I got an old fashion (they used bullet, but instead of sugar they used maple syrup). At Little Lab, Teresa puked, and unfortunately I got a little of the fallout :/

  
After we checked out two clubs, Dragon-I and Bungalow.  Both were really crowded. Bungalow played more top 40 EDM while Dragon-I was a bit deeper. Big also charged 300 HKD for guys (but for Bungalow, the bouncer tried to trick me. He said it was 20 USD to get in, which he then said translated to 300 HKD. Obviously that is incorrect. At the time of this writing it converts to 40 USD. So what I ended up doing is giving him a $20 USD bill. He asked if I had HKD, I said no. So he accepted it :)).

Exploring Phuket: Big Buddha, Wat Chalong

We arranged a Phuket afternoon tour from www.phukettravelcompany.com. The first stop was a look out point called Kata viewpoint:

   
 
After, we headed towards another view point called Cape Promthep:

  
We then visited a baby elephant:

  
After, we visited the biggest Buddha statue in Thailand (25m x 40m):

   
 
The last stop we did with our tour was Wat Chalong. The most interesting part of this temple is that is has the tooth of the Buddha from 1999.