Discover City Life in Hong Kong Trip - Central-Mid Levels Escalator, Star Ferry Harbour Tour and Hong Kong Space Museum (Day 5, 08 Sep - 14 Sep 2012)

After we happily done photo shooting in Snoopy's World in New Town Plaza, we headed to 中环 Central by taking MTR subway. I observed those working professionals especially guys in the MTR, they really decently dressed up. Wondering how they can stand with the hot weather with their thick coat on the street! Haha...

Once we reached 中环 Central, many Ding Ding tram car were appeared on our sight. As I know, 中环 Central area has a lot skyscrapers office buildings, I believe that most of the top notch people should be working here. Maybe someday I should find a job here as well :P

First stop to visit in 中环 Central area - 中环至半山自动扶梯 Central-Mid Levels Escalator. The total journey of travelling with this escalator takes about 20 minutes. It is also recorded in Guinness World's Record as the world's longest outdoor covered escalator system. The escalator daily runs downhill from 6:00 am to 10:00 am and uphill from 10:30 am to midnight. By the time we reached there, it was in the afternoon, we took the escalator uphill, but we only travelled with half of the escalator, as my other family members worried that they need to walk down with a lot staircases which would add more burden to their already exhausted legs...

中环 Central - Good road signage for tourists

叮叮电车 Ding Ding tram car, 中环 Central - Once you stepped out from the MTR station exit, you will see many tram cars

中环至半山自动扶梯 Central-Mid Levels Escalator, 中环 Central

中环至半山自动扶梯 Central-Mid Levels Escalator, 中环 Central - In the middle of the journey, you will see a 港铁特惠站 MTR Fare Saver machine. If you scan your 八达通卡 Octopus card here, you can save HKD 2 for taking MTR at 中环 Central station, 上环 Sheung Wan station and 香港 Hong Kong station. Unfortunately, we didn't go to those MTR stations as we left 中环 Central area :( We ended our journey here and walked downhill.

In order to rest our tired legs, we decided to have tea time session at 翠华餐厅 Tsui Wah Restaurant. This restaurant is famous as many local celebrities visited before. However, we didn't tried out the food there, we just ordered some beverages.

翠华餐厅 Tsui Wah Restaurant, 中环 Central

翠华餐厅 Tsui Wah Restaurant, 中环 Central - The beverages we ordered. I ordered the ice blended green tea with read bean and green tea ice cream float. (I like green tea :))

翠华餐厅 Tsui Wah Restaurant, 中环 Central - Board of celebrities' signatures. Spotted 郭富城 Aaron Kwok's and 古巨基 Leo Ku's one.

After we had enough rest during our tea time, we proceeded to the next stop - 天星小轮 Star Ferry. On the way to Star Ferry, I tried to ask direction in Cantonese from an auntie who was selling newspaper at the roadside stall. However, she just pretended that she didn't hear me and treated me as I was invisible, then continued her work :( Never mind, as we moved on, I found a young and helpful policeman to seek for guidance of the way to Star Ferry port. Thanks to his helpful guidance, we finally able to catch up with the ferry's schedule and departed from Central 中环 to 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui on time :)

We bought the Single-ride Day Round Trip tickets for 维港游 Star Ferry Harbour Tour. The ticket cost HKD 60 /pax. The total time of this tour is about 1 hour. The ferry we took was departed at 5:15 pm. The tour package is included with some refreshments - one piece of 奇华饼家 Kei Wah butter cake and a soft drink. You can click here for more details on the ferry route.

I enjoyed a lot with the ferry ride as not really many visitors on the ferry. Moreover, we can rest and relax while having a great sightseeing experience on the ferry :) I noticed there are a few Singaporean tourists together with us on the ferry too :)

On the way to 天星小轮 Star Ferry, we need to go to the Star Ferry Central Pier and purchase the ferry tickets

天星小轮 Star Ferry - Our ferry has arrived, yay!!

天星小轮 Star Ferry - Bye bye 中环 Central!

天星小轮 Star Ferry - Enjoying the beautiful 维多利亚港 Victoria Harbour sea view on the ferry :)

天星小轮 Star Ferry - The ferry has reached 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui!!

After 1 hour Star Ferry ride, we had reached Tsim Sha Tsui, the destination we were going was 香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum. Based on my research, for every Wednesday, most of the museums in Hong Kong are free for entrance. Therefore, I chose to visit the Space Museum on this day :P

I enjoyed a lot in this museum, as I can gain some knowledge on the space history. Also I was having fun while viewing the videos about the alien research. If you are interested on space knowledge, you should not miss out to visit here :)

尖沙咀钟楼 Clock Tower, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - After got off from the ferry and we were going to Space Museum

尖沙咀钟楼 Clock Tower, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - 中元节 Chinese Ghost season was coming soon?!

尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Took some photos before heading to Space Museum

香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Outdoor view. Looks like an egg shell :P

香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - 太空科学展览厅 Hall of Space Science entrance

香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Spacesuit for the Chinese astronauts

香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Me with the COOL spacesuit :P

香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Rocket. Take me to the moon... Reminds me a lost connection ICQ friend who worked in NASA...

香港太空馆 Hong Kong Space Museum, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Interior view of the spaceship

This was the ending of the day, but we really visited to many places in a day until our legs were very very sore. Therefore, it was time for us to go back to hostel and to have some rest. Since we were still felt full after eating the refreshments on the ferry, so we decided to eat some desserts that nearby our hostel.

My target dessert shop was the 大良八记. However, due to my outdated address information on the travel book, we couldn't find it. So, we gave up and just randomly picked a dessert shop to eat. But, I remembered that I saw the signboard somewhere nearby the hostel. Who knows that once we finished eating our dessert, while on the way back to hostel, I finally saw 大良八记 shop!! I felt that I would regret if I don't taste on the desserts at 大良八记 shop, so I bought another 2 bowls of desserts and took away back to hostel... Hehe... The desserts was really delicious and didn't disappoint me :) I miss them now...

1881 Heritage, 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui - Viewing from the outside of Space Musuem. No energy to cross over to the opposite road in order to take more photos of this building :(

浩记甜品馆, 旺角 Wong Kok - (left) 核桃糊 (I ordered this, it was really smooth and not too sweet) (top right) 蛋白炖牛奶 (bottom right) 芝麻糊豆腐花

大良八记, 旺角 Wong Kok - (left) 芝麻糊 (very very smooth) (right) 燕窝炖蛋 (smooth egg curd with bird's nest)