Day 4 - Sunday 17 January - Sha Tin and Sham Shui Po

Much better sleep - slept til nearly 6am!

Another rainy morning, another morning lacking motivation. But at least we had a plan.

We did start with watching the finish of the Hong Kong marathon, which we could see from our hotel room. So that delayed us a little.

Hong Kong Marathon in Causeway Bay

Hong Kong Marathon finish line in Causeway Bay

Runner 20947 finishing the marathon

Bag collection point for the marathon

By the time we'd had breakfast we didn't get out the door until 11am :(

We took a train (well actually four trains - and we went east from Tin Hau to avoid the worst of the post-race crowds) up to Sha Tin, and had a bit of a wander through the New Town Plaza. Well actually it was a long walk around trying to find the Starbucks there. Hrmm.

Then a wander down to the river and along to the Hong Kong Heritage museum. Had a little bit of a wander around there.

Lek Yuen Bridge

Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Opera replica stage

Opera costumes

Colony Armorial Bearings

Sha Tin in the 1930s

Sha Tin in the 1970s

Sha Tin in the 2000s

Cloisonne vase, reunification gift from Beijing

Sha Tin Park

Tortoise in Sha Tin Park

Waterfall in Sha Tin Park

Sha Tin Park

Then back to the plaza to find some lunch (it was about 3pm at this point). Ended up at a Japanese place which was quite nice.

Ballet performance in the open air auditorium

Nice Japanese lunch we had

I wanted to get more $2 lightning cables, and Stu needed a new luggage tag (his previous one had gotten ripped off on the way over), so we stopped in Sham Shui Po on the way back. I found what I was looking for straight away in the Golden Computer Arcade (which was super crowded), and even found a USB light that does very nicely as a keyboard light for when I'm doing stuff in the dark (my $300 lappy doesn't have keyboard lighting). Got two cables and the light for $8AUD. Then went to Apliu Street to find luggage tags, although I think we would have had better luck at the ladies' market or the Temple Street market. We did find something in the end though for about $3.

The sun came out!

Then headed back to the hotel. We picked up some beer on the way back and I did go out for some more snacks and we just had a quiet night in. Saw the Symphony of Lights, although from here you don't really see much. But there was nothing on tv worth watching so we ended up going to bed really early.

View from our hotel room

USB light for my laptop

Symphony of Lights from our hotel room

Hong Kong and Singapore 2016

Day 4 - Sunday 17 January - Sha Tin and Sham Shui Po

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