China
Hong Kong’s Lantau Island Tai O Fishing Village
From the Tian Tan Buddha and the monastery, we took bus #21 to Tai O fishing village for about 6 HK$. The ride took about 40 minutes. We explored the narrow alleyways for about an hour or so. Unlike the…
Hong Kong’s Lantau Island; The Tian Tan Buddha and Po Lin Monastery
A visit to Hong Kong's Lantau Island using public transportation.
Hong Kong’s Central District; Star Ferry, Dim Sum and Markets
On our first full day in Hong Kong, unsurprisingly, I woke up at 3am. Thank you jet lag. The first stop of the day was to buy Hong Kong transportation cards called Octopus Cards; 150 HK$ for me, and 70 HK$ for…
Hong Kong and the Salisbury YMCA
If you ever have the opportunity to fly trans pacific for the price of a transcontinental ticket, take it. At some point in the Fall of 2014 I saw a deal for tickets from LAX to Hong Kong, nonstop, for…
What’s new on wired2theworld? Cambodia, Burma, London, China and Italy, oh my!
I’m behind on blog posts. Like really, really, behind on writing about the wonderful places we’ve been in the last year. But I’d like to change that so I’m putting it out there, making it public, in the hopes I’ll be…
