For my only full day in Hong Kong, I had a few hours to myself in the morning. I started off by going to the post office to mail off a parcel. Hong Kong is probably the only place outside of Canada where it’s easy for me to run errands. I love being able to get things done like a local and I feel like I can maximize my time doing other things when I’m allowed to be productive. It…
By the time we got to Hong Kong I was thoroughly confused by the time difference as it was the fourth time zone I had traveled to during the trip. Our flight landed at 4:30am and we had to wait almost an hour and a half for the first trains to leave for the city. I also had to reactivate my Octopus card, as it had been a couple years since I last used mine. After making it back home…
For my last morning in Sydney, I only had one thing planned – a visit inside the Sydney Opera House. That was actually one of the first things I looked at when I started planning my trip. As I wasn’t interested in any of the performances during that time, I decided I would do a tour instead. While you can do a backstage or dining tour of the Opera House, I decided to buy tickets for their architectural tour, which dives more…
Although we had arrived back in Sydney the day before, it was somehow already our last full day in the city. We left the house that morning at 8:30am, then slowly made our way to Taronga Zoo, which was nearly two hours away. We took the train out, then transferred onto a bus at Wynyard, before finally arriving at the zoo entrance around 10:30am. The zoo was bigger than I expected, but we made good time getting to all the…
We decided to get an early start for our last day in New Zealand. Once we finished packing, we left our luggage at the hotel then took the bus downtown. Our first official stop that day was to Kiwi Park, but since we got there early, we spent about 30 minutes wandering around the downtown core, taking photos by the waterfront. Just before 9:30am, we joined the line outside of Kiwi Park and made our way inside. I bought our…