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Alone in Hong Kong - a tourist perspective from Apogee

by DanielSzuc Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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You are alone in a new city called "Hong Kong".

  • What does it feel like to be a tourist in Hong Kong?
  • Do the signs tell you where you need to go?
  • Does the transportation help to get you where you need to go?
  • What do you need to use the transportation effectively?
  • Do people in the city help?

Apogee - www.apogeehk.com decided to be tourists for a day in our home city of Hong Kong. This journey talks to an experience tourists may have with the transport in order to get where they need to go. Does transport improve the tourist experience? Or did it get in the way of having a good time? Try this in your own city and let us know how you went :)

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Beijing instead of Hongkong
On September 24th, 2008 Wendy says:

I cannot answer the question about HongKong but I can tell you the experiences I had in Beijing.To be a tourist in Beijing feels not like being a tourist in a city like Rome or Amsterdam. In Beijing the people are ignoring you, and you are a "walk-in-the-way for them. Although some people are nice the most of them live there life and they don't care if they have to bump you while walking.The signs in Beijing where in Chinese and in Western letters so I could see in what street I was and I could also read the maps in the street to see where to go.The transportation in Beijing is a difficult thing because the roads are full of cars, bikes, walking people.

  1. The busses are only in Chinese and nobody speaks English, it's the cheapest way to travel through Beijing but not the finest for tourists.
  2. The Subway is easy to use, it's one Yuan more expensive then the bus but the Subway contains a map with lights so you can see at which station you are at that moment and to what station the Subway is going. There is also a speaker voice that tells you the information in Chinese as well in clear English language.
  3. The taxi is also an easy way to travel as a tourist, if you have written in Chinese the location you want to go the cabdriver will bring you there. The most cabdrivers can't speak English but are social and ready to bring you anywhere you want.

To use the transportation in the most effective way you need a map of Beijing, knowledge of the Chinese language (this will make your trip so easy) or written in Chinese where you want to go.During my staying in Beijing the city was full of "Volunteers". These people were choosen bij the Chinese government to help the tourists in Beijing to find their way. This was only during the Olympic- and the Paralympic games. The Volunteers were very helpful. The citizins of Beijing were not really helpful apart from the police and some soldiers. I think the main reason for this is that the people in Beijing do not speak any English and they live in their own worlds.