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China 2007 - Train to Hong Kong
From Worldtraveller
From Shanghai I got a train to Hong Kong. The Chinese rail network had just undergone some major upgrading, and the journey to Hong Kong was four hours shorter than it had been just a few days previously. I had a great journey, speeding across southern China in comfort, leaving Shanghai in the late afternoon and then waking the morning after in the rice fields of the far south, wet and atmospheric. We arrived at Hung Hom station at 3pm, and I set out to see Hong Kong. I found my way to a grimy hostel in the legendary Chungking Mansions on Nathan Road in Kowloon, and then walked down to the south end of the Kowloon Peninsula for my first views of another breathtaking city skyline.
 Leaving Shanghai station |
 Evening near Shanghai |
 Passing through another huge city |
 Rice fields of southern China |
 Wet day in the south |
 Guangdong station |
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China 2007: Return to Beijing / Nanjing / Shanghai / Train to Kong Kong / Hong Kong / Macau |
