Day 18. To HongKong and going home
Leaving Kunming
The hotel offered free airport shuttle. It required a reservation and ran at fixed time. We booked the 6:00am shuttle the day before. The shuttle picked us up and we went to the airport smoothly. Our flight departure was all smooth too.
Hong Kong
We arrived Hong Kong at 10am. Our flight to San Francisco was 10pm, so we had plenty of time to explore. We got our luggage check-in luggage. Then I got some Hong Kong dollars from an ATM. I stored our luggage at a storage counter in the airport.
I bought two Octopus cards at the airport with 50 Hong Kong dollars each. These were transportation cards. We used the cards to take Airport Express to go to Hong Kong Central. We walked a bit and Claire got some snacks at a shop in the mall.
We then took the Star Ferry to go to Victoria Harbour, using our Octopus cards. We walked near the harbor. The skyline view was very pretty.
It was really hot and humid. We ate some mango ice cream at a McDonald's and Claire really wanted to go back to the airport. So we took the Star Ferry back to Central and took the Airport Express back to the airport. I got the refund out of the used Octopus cards. After getting our luggage back, we just spent the rest of the day in the airport. There was an orchestra playing at one point.
Costs of everything in Hong Kong were much higher than those in mainland China, and close to those in the US.
At night, we boarded the airplane home.
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