Bus Ride to Keneddy Town

Being poor students, one of the things we have insisted on in our trip is that we must be thrifty. And we were advaenturous enough to try out the various forms of public transport. In fact, we didn't take any taxis in Hong Kong at all - we managed to get to our destinations by the MTR train system and the public bus station. But there was only this once where we got just a bit lost.

After watching two races at Happy Valley, we left on a public tram bus, which we thought would bring us back to the nearby MTR station. Or any MTR station. We wanted to get to that harbour coast, where we can take a boat back to the main Kowloon island where our hotel was. In the end, we did get to the coast. Just about 30 minutes away from where we wanted to go. So we went about looking for alternate transports. Do note that it was about 10pm at night then. So we nearly boarded a small bus (xiao ba) that is supposed to be very fast. Only drawback we found out then was it was way expensive... Costs similar to taking a taxi. And being bright and quick students, we quickly found another tram bus which would bring us to the Central MTR station.

It was quite some detour. But a rather fun and adventurous one. How many chances do you have to explore Hong Kong on public transport? Haha... Though trying that when everyone was tired wasn't exactly the best time to go exploring Hong Kong Island. =)


The public tram