Market day, after waiting a few days while the Chinese New Year closures were on Rachel was delighted to hit the markets. We took the subway to the furthest away Kowloon market at Sham Shui Po the second hand electronics market which is where Rachel's phone cover craze started. We walked from there down to the flower market which had plenty of empty stalls still setting up after the holiday but still for mid winter had plenty of flowers. Next was the bird market again only a dozen or so shops open but Rachel loved all the tropical birds for sale. Moving on down the road we got to the goldfish market with its pet shops selling tropical fish, turtles, chameleons, cats and dogs. The coral being sold for fish tanks was very cool and great colours, a samoyed a white fluffy husky like dog had Rachels attention.
The Ladies market was next which is a more typical market with a few tourist t-shirts, tea sets, paintings(which we brought) and phone accessories. This was the best of the markets covering a good few streets and really busy. From the Ladies market we walked down to the Jade market neither of being that keen on jade it was just a quick wonder through to look at the jewellery.
The last market on our tour down Nathan rd was the Temple st night market which is probably the most famous but we found it smaller than the others and very touristy.
After Karl finished work he met us for dinner and a few drinks in the famous English drinking area of Lan Kwai Fong on Hong Kong island.
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