We have now arrived in Hong Kong and settled into our tiny hotel room in Tsim Shar Tsui, in the southernmost tip of the Kowloon Peninsula. After all the touts in Thailand, we thought that we had seen it all. Nope. Stepping off the bus at the wonderful Chung King Mansion, we were set upon by an army of touts demanding to take us to their preferred accommodation. We managed to fend most of them off, apart from a burly Nigerian guy who came up with us on the lift to our hostel's reception and proceeded to show us our hostelbookers booking confirmation and check us into the hostel. By that, I mean that once we had checked in, he led us down a maze of corridors and down five flights of stairs until we were completely lost. We are now in a completely differently named hostel in the same building and are hoping that we haven't just been massively scammed.
Kowloon is crazy too. Before we came here, we looked up the surrounding area on Wikipedia and were told that it was the most densely populated place on planet Earth. We can now believe that. Every building round here seems to be a skyscraper. Tomorrow, we must go out and have a look around Hong Kong. I hope that we are able to make sense of it all.
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