We're in Hong Kong!
Quite far this time.
Right now, we're on the
Kowloon, or Kowloon, side of
Hong Kong, and behind us is Hong Kong Island!
Where we're going next! See you there!
To get from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island,
the easiest way to get there is to take the
Star Ferry to Central!
It takes about
10 minutes to cross the water and if you want the
good view, then sit on the left side of the
ferry.
And the best way to get around
Hong Kong like a local is
to get an Octopus card,
which looks like...
t his.
So we got ours from an MTR station,
so a subway station. You can go up to the customer service
desk and
buy one.
You have to pay 150 HKD
for this card, which you can use.
So it's a $50 refundable
fee, and then it's $100
that's loaded onto the card for you to use, so you
tap on
every time you get on a
subway, a bus, a tram,
a ferry...
You can use it everywhere.
Yup.
We can compare this card to the
Oyster card in London.
Some coincidence
using seafood as a name
of the card, but that's funny.
But the Octopus card actually came first.
So you can see that the Octopus card logo
is an 8, obviously because an octopus has
8
limbs.
But 8 is also a very lucky number in
Chinese culture.
It kind of sounds like the word "fortune",
so like luck and all of that.
The numbers in Chinese culture are really important.
They don't like the number 4 because it
sounds like the word "death".
So... probably in...
I would say all of these buildings,
if you go inside the lift, you'll
probably see that there's no number 4,
and a lot of the time there isn't
a floor 14, or 24,
or if it goes that high, 34, 44,
54, 64.
And in the hotel that we're staying at,
there's also no floor 13 for
us Western people!