Places we went to:

• Choi Hung Estate

• Victoria Peak

• Shek-O Dragons Back Hike

• Sai Wan Swimming Shed

• Yick Fat Building

• Chun Yeung Street Wet Market

• Lok Wah South Estate

• Chi Lin Nunnery

• Nan Lian Garden

These are the places that I photographed/remembered but we definitely visited more that I can’t quite remember.

Hong Kong is a bustling city and we stayed in Tsim Sha Tsui. I highly recommend staying here when visiting HK as it is very, very central to everything, e.g. the new side and old sides of Hong Kong.

Places we went to:

• Ruins of St. Paul's

• Senado Square

• A-Ma Temple

• Fortaleza do Monte: Home of the Macau Museum

• Fisherman's Wharf

• SkyCab at Wynn Palace Resort

With only limited days here, we were lucky to spend it with a close friend who took us around by car. We stayed in the Hyatt and I can highly recommend staying here if you wish to stay in the casino/hotel area.

Unfortunately, I had no itinerary for this part of the trip and rather had my cousin take us around. We did however go to Mayland Resort Guangzhou for their hot-springs and that was very, very good! They had all sorts of hot-springs including different types of fruits and the lavender hot-spring was a highlight.

Otherwise, we visited the Canton Tower and surrounding areas.

We flew into Taipei but met our high school friend in Tainan and spent 3 days there before heading up to Taipei. The highlight of Tainan was the food. It felt like we were never, ever hungry and everything we ate was delicious.

We did visit the Chimei Museaum which had a great variety of pieces and worth a visit. We ate fried chicken and bowled almost every night - this combo is a must try. This city is much quieter and definitely worth having a guide. It’s a little harder to travel around if you don’t have a car as it’s not as built up as Taipei.

The last couple days we headed up to Taipei by train.

Places we visited in Taipei:

• National Palace Museum

• Addiction Aquatic Development

• Pingxi Lantern Festival

• Taipei 101

• Jiufen Laojie

• Gold Museum in Jinguashi

• EZ live house

I may have missed a couple things that we did but these were the main sites we visited. I strongly recommend getting a driver for the day as this makes commuting to some of the more rural places a lot easier as there weren’t any train stations nearby. Otherwise, the PT in and around Taipei city is very, very effective and super easy to get around.

Make sure to have pearl milk tea and hot pot while in Taiwan…the birth places of these items! If you are into live music, definitely check out EZ live house for a good night out!! (See below for a snippet)

8 days in Tokyo was more of a relaxing leg for us as it was our final stop.

This was spent more of less shopping or re-visiting places that we had been to in the past.

We stayed with Kei’s host family from his school trip a couple years back.

However, I highly recommend staying around the Shibuya area for easy access to PT as the metro system is probably the best in the world.

I can’t seem to find an itinerary anywhere and we more or less planned everything we did by the day. However, check out my Japan 2019 trip for a more detailed itinerary of what to do.