A few weeks ago I had to make a trip to Hong Kong to get my visa changed to a work visa. For the past few years I've been on a student visa. To do this, you have to leave the country and visit a Chinese Embassy. With my invitation letter from my university, the papers from the PSB (Chinese police station, and registration papers, I headed to HK.
A flight was a few hundred US dollars, so instead we took an overnight bus to Shenzhen (12 hours). Went through the border check and then took the subway from there and entered into HK! (the ride coming back into China was quite a different situation-next blog post). I'm so thankful David was with me and that I didn't have to make the trip alone. He had been there before many times doing what we all call here a "visa run," he knew where to go and how to do the process. He was able to take off work for a few days and we made it into a little trip and visited our friends there.
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| Hong Kong! |
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| 30 minute wait to get on this trolly... totally worth waiting every minute! |
View from the Peak! Looks over the city! It was so beautiful at night!
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| Overlooking the city! |
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| I was overwhelmed by all the stores, people shopping, and how expensive everything was there. The story on the right is a two floor Coach store. |
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| Headed out to Stanley Beach to go swimming! |
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| My friend asked me to go shopping with her and to meet her at 8pm. I asked, "don't the stores close at 9?" She explained HK doesn't sleep... and most of the retail stores stay open till 11 or 12. This pic was taken at 10pm on a Thursday evening! |
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| Yum! I was so looking forward to eating Dim Sum! Saturday morning Dim Sum breakfast with our friends! |
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| Visiting a CLC bookstore in HK! Dave had a difficult time pulling me out of there! I was so excited to be a bookstore that had English books! |
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| Out exploring HK and having fun! |
More to come in the next post!
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