So, Hong Kong!
Hong Kong is an extremely interesting, safe and vibrant place to visit. It was also easy to be a tourist by myself here, some other places I wouldn't have probably felt as happy doing stuff alone. But here it just worked.
Hong Kong is a wierd combination of east and west. Looking one way there's a scyscraper made of diamonds (well not exactly, but you get the point)
and by shifting your gaze only 90 degrees there's a little chinese granny pushing a trolly full of food, furniture, her children and grand children and her (most probably dead) parents as well as chickens of course (dead and alive) up a 45 degree hill between buildings that look like they might collapse any moment, under scaffoldings made of bamboo. (fact: they build even the scyscrapers with scaffoldings made out of bamboo, that's something, eh? )
And that's just the way it is. And it functions like a machine. Every bloody thing just works. There is a multipurpose card called the Octopus that you can load money to and then use it as a travelcard or to pay for your shopping, which both are rediculously cheap. Some little things are just so small but clever that you wonder why other places don't do it the same way; There are book-recycling boots on MTR stations, there are little plasticbag-holders on the entrances and exits of metro etc so you can pop your wet umbrella in a bag and don't get everything wet as you hop into the train. GENIOUS!
As well as these amazing functioning thingies, the cityscape was quite something..
So during my 4 days in the city I mostly just chilled and looked around..
sat in the park reading and looking at the aviators
had way too much coffee, but this particular rose latte was probably the best thing I have ever had
went for an amazing 1,5h massage that cost literally nothing and left me drooling for more..
went shopping in some of the coolest shops..
cheapest streetmarkets..
and smelliest food markets
she was so excited being photographed :)
Met a friend who took me for lunch and to the roof of his office for some city-views
Did some T'ai Chi one morning at the Victoria Harbour with this amazing gentleman, he really left a mark on me with the way he moved, controlled his body and mind and the people he was with..
Went for a drink in one of the highest bars in the world, and one of the fanciest places I have ever been. 
This building (don't know what) is supposedly very important to the history of Hong Kong. That's what my taxi driver told me and made me take a picture of it, but what the building is or why it's important he didn't wanna tell me and I haven't had the timeto find out yet.
What the Hong Kongers (that's surely not how you say it, right?) definately have got right is taking care of themselves and excercising. Walking through a park you could not look anywhere without seeing people excercising, especially the elderly.There were proper T'ai Chic classes..
just a granny shaking her limbs about..
some couples learning salsa..
a girl doing yoga..
or a man doing breathing excercises on a bench..
These pictures were all taken in half an hour walk through a park that also had pretty flamingos
That's all folks, thank you so much for taking this adventure with me, I have enjoyed your comments and "likes" a lot, it makes the writing all worth it!
New adventures await, but honestly now I am just extremely happy to go home and hug the brains out of my cats and friends!
Love you and leave you!
Yours truly,
Unni :)
Ihana Unni <3
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