I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 636. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about temples and a giant

Buddha, markets, the peak, the octopus Card, and the Star Ferry, as we go to Hong Kong.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Hong Kong. I'd like to welcome to the show Marianne Rogerson from mom on the sorry mom on the move

dot com yes I'm a British mom yes he's come to talk to us about Hong Kong.

Marion, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris.

Thank you for having me.

And what, you always want to make sure we get that correct.

We'll put the real link for all the things that we talk about in the show notes.

Why are we talking about Hong Kong? Why should someone go to Hong Kong?

So for me, Hong Kong is just one of those big cities that everybody should visit once in their lifetime.

I think it's up there with Paris, London, New York,

for me, Hong Kong should definitely be on that list too.

It's a really exciting city, it's got a buzz, it's exotic, it has amazing food.

And sure it can be kind of crazy and chaotic, but for me that's part of its charm.

There's also another side to Hong Kong that a lot of people

don't know about and that's that it has lots of little beaches to explore and it has lots of

country park with amazing hiking trails. I was thinking about that when you said that it's a big city

I thought well yes but it's also not it's more than that and I think we'll get into that

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