Hong Kong Day 1: HK Avenue of Stars

HK Airport - Tsim Tsa Tsui
Friday, 28 Feb 2014

Alhamdulillah, we touched down at HK airport at 4.50pm. Masa ni kalau tengok dari luar tingkap AK1658 memang agak mendung sikit. Hopefully, cuaca ok sepanjang kami berada disini nanti. Urusan kami di HK airport berjalan agak lancar tanpa sebarang kesulitan. Airport HK ni besar sangat and kena alert sikitlah direction & instruction from information board. Kami pun hampir lost juga mencari baggage sebab tak perasan instruction lane mana yang kami patut tuju. Anyway, berjaya juga walaupun hanya baggage kami sahaja antara yang masih menunggu untuk diangkut, hehehe. 

Memandangkan dah hampir pukul 6pm, kami pun terus mencari musolla di level 7 HK airport, yang ada disediakan untuk solat. Bilik solat satu jer and terpaksa berkongsi lelaki & perempuan. Alhmadulillah, ada juga musolla kan. Selesai solat, cari octopus card & simcard pulak sebelum berangkat menuju Hotel. Kami pun ada juga survey package untuk a few attraction kat HK ni tapi sebab layanan yang agak hambar dari tourist agent di HK airport disebabkan kami tak jadi nak ambil package dia terus kami sepakat tak nak servey kat situ dah. Anyway, bukan kat situ je pun boleh tiket kan. Kalau murah sekali pun tapi rude attitude, forget it. Paling aku tak bolah blah, boleh dia suruh kawan aku sorang yang dah bayar full package untuk dia sahaja, disuruh pulang balik tiket tu, return back the money and halau kami dari situ. Hari pertama di HK sahaja, aku dah rasa agak kecewa dengan layanan tourist agent ni. Malas nak fikir dah.

Latest temperature forecast masa kami sampai HK

Forget about my dissatisfaction, from the Airport, travelers have the choice of taking, the Citybus A21/N21 Route, the taxis or the MTR Airport Express to reach Delta Hostel. But, we had chosen Citybus A21 bus ride to our Hotel since Airport bus is the most popular method to get to Chungking Mansions. Most important, bas ni akan berhenti di Bus stop no. 13 betul-betul dekat dengan Chungking Mansion which is next to CKE department store. Bus Station is located near Hall B on the Arrivals Level (Level 5) of HK International Airport. Just follow signboard ‘To City’ (ada pic bas, MTR). Then, find the Airport Shuttle Bus Number: A21 or N21 , which terminal is called Hung Hom KCR Station. Bus is every 10-15 minutes. Bus fare is HKD33 (free of luggage fee). Pakai jer terus pakai octopus card sebab touch sahaja. Kalau nak pakai cash make sure cukup-cukuplah sebab no balance ok. Kat dalam bus juga memang ada ruang khas nak letak baggage.

No. of bus stop is reflected on the running screen inside the bus so don’t worry you will never lost, just enjoy the ride and the free wifi. It tooks around 40 minutes to reach bus stop 13, Nathan Road from airport and it depends on the traffic too.

Bus ride to our Hotel at Chungking Mansion, Tsim Sha Tsui

Menikmati keindahan malam di HK

Happy masing-masing dah sampai HK yea

Ade free Wifi lagi dalam bus

We arrived Chungking mansion around 7.30pm. Memang sangat dekat dari bus stop 13 yang kami berhenti tu. Jangan terkejut pulak bila sampai sini ramai sangat awang hitam sebab sini memang dah jadi macam kawasan dia orang sahaja. Even owner of our Hotel also Pakistani. Masa mula-mula sampai tu macam lost juga sebab dah masuk tapi tak tahu arah mana nak tuju tapi nasib baikah ada orang tunjukkan. Sebenarnya tak jauh pun dari entrance chungking mansion ni, lift tu betul-betul sebelah kedai runcit. Dan ada dua lift sahaja each for odd & even numbers. Nak naik pun kena beratur sebab orang memang sangat ramai. Sabar jelah.

For more info about this Delta Hotel.

Delta Hotel located inside this Chungking Mansion

Chungking Mansion located along this road

After check-in at level 16, kami kena turun balik ke level 6 sebab bilik kami kat level lain. Bilik baru katanya tapi nak masuk pun kena tunggu staff dia kemas kan dulu. Selesai semua urusan hotel, pukul 9.30 kami mula bergerak dari hotel menuju destinasi kami yang utama untuk hari pertama di HK, Avenue of Stars. Jarak dari hotel aku tak sure tapi ada dalam 20min berjalan thru the subway of Salisbury road.

Nak ke Avenue of Stars just follow the signboard instruction (via subway) across Salisbury Road

Kowloon City at Night

Still busy at this hour

Kami ke area outside museum of art. Since malam muzium dah tutup so, jalan-jalan kat luar dia sajalah. Lepas dah puas bergambar kami mula menuju avenue of stars. Masa ni symphony of light show dah habis lama pun sebab show mula pukul 8mlm.

The art of human

Avenue of Stars

Masa ni agak menyesal juga sebab tak bawa tripod. Seriously, sangat cantik view kat sini bila malam. You could only see the colorful & beautiful of HK city at night from this area. Memang sangat cantik.

Hong Kong at Night

The colorful of HK city at Night

The Avenue of Stars, modelled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is located along the Victoria Harbour waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui. It honours celebrities of the Hong Kong film industry. 

1 2 3 Action

Rolling Film

Jalan disepanjang Avenue of stars

The other side of Avenue of Stars

Handprint of Jet Li

Dato' Michelle Yeoh pun ada

Legendary Kung Fu Hero... Bruce Lee

They are busy making film

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Masa dah hampir melewati 11.30mlm & yang lain sudah pun pulang ke Hotel. Only me, Eein & Fad balik agak lewat sikit sebab sibuk setting camera untuk night photoshoot. So, kena banyak bersabar sikitlah kalau nak pic yang awesome. Anyway, thank you so much my dear Leon Lai cause if you were not there, confirm I couldn't get free tripod, hahaha.

I really enjoyed my day 1 at HK although temperature below 20degC. Anyway, kenalah practice adapt with cold temperature, lepas ni banyak lagi trip nak ke oversea kan. Balik Malaysia, amek kau kemarau berpanjangan.

To be continued...