Trip to Macau, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong (Nov/Dec 2008) - Part 8

We ended day 4 with a visit to the Avenue of Stars before checking into a 3-stars Metropark Mongkok Hotel.

In the early morning of Day 5, we had the opportunity to try Hong Kong’s tim sums. Of course, the tour guide funnily told us to lower our expectation in term of the quantity provided as the cost of livings here is just unbearable high. So we had to ‘ta pau’ (packed) some egg tarts and buns to supplement our breakfast.

Our first visit on day 5 of our tour was the Wong Dai Shin temple. We couldn’t access into most parts of this infamous temple complex as it is under massive renovation at the moment.

As meals will not be provided as from now in this tour, we decided to take our lunch first before visiting Disneyland Hong Kong. Owing to the exhorbitive pricings, we were advised to avoid consuming food and drinks inside Disneyland if we could. Only a bottle of mineral water is allowed to be brought in (in fact, we have to go through a security check before allowed entry into the theme park).

Disneyland Hong Kong is rather small in term of size as compared to its counterparts in US, Paris and Tokyo. It is quite different from the other theme parks we had visited in this trip like Shenzhen’s Splendid China and Happy Valley and Hong Kong’s Ocean Park. I think it is more suitable for young kids where the rides are less challenging. However, the ambience is very different, transporting our memories back to our very young age where fairy tales and animations embraced our lives then.



In the evening, we were entertained by the parade of many many cartoons personalities like Snow Whites and the & Dwarfs, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Ducks, Cinderella and etc. All these remind me of my childhood days.