my view on ngong pin
the sky rail give quite a scenic view of the air port and lantau island
nothing much on ngyong pin village, it's a tourist rip-off...
but then, if you are going to the big buddha @ lautan island, the cable car is a faster way up and down.
when taking the cable car, after turning left away from the airport (you'll understand when u take it), take note the mountains below, there are actually some tombs that are scattered on the mountain. what i'm thinking is, wah, qing ming, those descendents climb the mountain sure damn shiong.
btw, ggspot, can stop advertising the studio room every page?
it's getting kinda irritating.
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no doubt, that there are cheaper hostel, but do take in consideration of location and facilities of the hostel. HKD80 sounds cheap, but the location is not that centralize and communal toilet.
dragon hostel is not the same as dragon inn but they reside in the same building (sincere building), heard dragon hostel not tt bad also.
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safety in shenzhen.
last dec went shenzhen with my gf only, found the security quite ok. a lot of things to shop. to get to shenzhen, take KCR from hk to luohu and walk across the custom. the journey from hongkong KCR to luohu (end to end) should not take you more than 1.5 hr bah (if i remember correctly). however, at the custom to shenzhen, it's really depends on when you go. it's like singapore to malaysia, if no one, then gd, but if tio peak periods, happy new year to you
is 1 day enough for shenzhen: tt depends on what you want to do there. tt time, we went there for 2 night 3 day. reach there in the night from macau to zhuhai. took a cab to chunfeng road queen's spa and stayed the night over @ queen's spa. next day, went window of the world in the morning till evening. went for dinner and back to queen's spa
3rd day slp until late morning then go back to hk.
advice if going to shenzhen is try to avoid wkend as wkend more crowded (dun want to squeeze thru the customs with the hongkongers)