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Lunar New Year celebrations ahead, you are planning to travel to Hong Kong should take the time to visit the flower markets are popping up there. Before the start of Chinese New Year this year falls on February 3rd, the Hong Kong government has set the existence of the flower markets.
The largest and most popular in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay and Fa Hui Park in Mongkok. From 28 January, the market rate can be visited from 18:00 to 21:00 o’clock local time on 2 February and will remain open until after midnight.When planning to see the colorful flowers and smell the fragrance, you should come to market early, if not be prepared to jostle with the locals.
If confused want to buy anything, some plants are popular for Chinese New Year including a complete Mandarin oranges with leaves. This is a gift that symbolizes good luck to the next. There is also a very popular fruit Kumquat as “law“ (in Cantonese means gold).
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Before leaving, for breakfast do not forget to try the egg tarts, which is a local specialty. In this cake called Macau Portuguese Egg tart, perhaps from its origins there. It was indeed crispy and delicious when eaten while still warm (newly created). These cakes are usually sold in small shops, with prices of about HKD 7 / fruit. How to Hong Kong Disneyland? The first is that you should take the MTR Tung Chung line (Orange color) up to Sunny Bay station. MTR journey if from Tsim Tsa Tsui takes about 30 minutes because they have to change the red to the yellow line at Lai King.
Arriving at Sunny Bay we have to replace the special train Disneyland majors. The train will be very easily recognized because of the design to the interior window seat and holding hands all of the typical Disney Mickey’s head. Arrive at the Disneyland Resort Station which in-design trim, we just follow the crowd that was headed to the gate of Disneyland. Arrive at the sales counter, you need to buy tickets for 295 HKD for adult and HKD 210 for children. This price applies to Weekdays, and to become more expensive weekend (HKD HKD 350 & 250). Read the rest of this entry »