We have a new favorite city . . .that is of course still after our first love San Francisco.  That being said, one of the major things we loved so much about Hong Kong was how much it reminded us of SF.  So many cute pockets of restaurants and bars, a beautiful bay, very friendly people (that was of course magnified after how cold people were to us in Mainland China), great shopping and not an overwhelmingly huge city. 

Even the sporadic down pours didn't get us down about Hong Kong, like it did in other places (Shanghai for example).  We just mounted up in our parkas, and hit the streets rain or shine.  The public transporation in this city is incrediblly efficient, easy and cheap.  Between taking the trams, subways, ferries and taxis, we got everywhere in ease.  This is actually the one thing that by far exceeds SF, since we all know that muni and BART aren't the most efficient and fast ways to get to all parts of the city.  Our favorite mode of transport in the city by far were our own two feet, where we got some pretty cool urban hiking in.

It was espeically nice how international this city was, with people speaking all different languages around us.  English seems to be the primary language people communicate in (of course Cantonese as well, however everyone speaks English).  So, we had no problem intermingling with the locals for the first time in months, which was really nice!

We even managed to muster up a couple fun nights out on the town - the bars and restaurants in this city are incredible, especially the ones we discovered in an area called SOHO (very Marina-like as one friend described it).  AND, one of our favorite things we did was to meet up with Kath and Jake, who we had met on the Great Wall of China earlier in our travels.  Hong Kong is their home now, and we had great fun throwing back some drinks and talking to the wee hours of the night!

Now, we must say good bye to Hong Kong, but will certainly be back.  We're about to have a real change in scenery, culture and climate, as we depart for Vietnam in about 2 hours.  The current temperature is 93 degrees!  Jason's trying to prepare for the intensity of the heat and humidity,