It’s been a good 10 days now since I’ve landed in Hong Kong. Unfortunately for me its been a very sickly one. For 10 days, I spent most of it staying at the New Hong Kong Hostel and only rarely emerging outside these walls. I’ve had a severe (possibly pending) cold/flu as well as now some sort of massive migraine.
And this is the ugly side of the “Quest”. Since September this year I’ve been travelling non stop without any problems and now, since I hit Hong Kong, it has slowed down completely. I know I’m so close, yet my health is really getting in the way. I keep telling myself that I schedule to get better in the next two days so I can actually meet some really cool Jackie Chan linkages. But it just keeps getting pushed back and back and back. Now day 10 and I’m still here.
Anyhow, so far the journey to Hong Kong has been a very enlivening one. I’m staying at the Chungking Mansion. It is not a mansion. Very far from it in actual fact. It is possibly the most seediest looking places in Hong Kong with a crazy 4,000 people living in the one building! Its like a whole town or something enclosed in a concrete jungle.
HK in general, woahhh! So much stimuli! So many things happening around, people walking pass, things being bought and sold, so many restaurants and shops in any places, every nook and cranny. Everyone means business, whether its big or small.
Anyhow, just a little bit of an update.
Much love,
Maria Tran
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While you're in Hong Kong I suggest you watch Chungking Express, which was shot in and around the Chungking mansions by HK Auteur Wong Kar Wai. It's one of my favourite movies.
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