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I LOVE taking photos in Hong Kong. I have taken many photos in mainland China and in Hong Kong and a few other Asian countries - HK has a special "flavour" of its own.
The answers to your 3 questions are "many places" in each case :-) - but there are some specialist ones. You will find mixes of all sorts of things all over. The really and genuinely old is ...
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Here are some places. Hong Kong is sometimes tricky to shoot because things are in most cases too close up for the size they have. It's not easy shooting 40-floor high buildings when you are standing in front of them. I find my 15mm fish-eye very helpful at times.
Mong Kok: VERY dense place, lots of small shops
Causeway bay, specially around Sogo and Times ...
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Obviously "best" is always subjective and depends on the particular person, but...
Having done 1-day stopover trips in Hong Kong a few times over the past few years (including a 22 hour stopover there 2 weeks ago!), my vote would be for the area on one side or other of Victoria Harbour - either the Kowloon/Nathan road area on the north side, or Causeway ...
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Your visa will indicate how many times you are permitted to enter China under that visa. On the first line, there should be a field "ENTRIES" with a letter and a chinese character following it. If that letter is M, you are eligible for multiple entries. China also has single and double-entry visas; presumably, those would be the letters S and D respectively. ...
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There isn't a free public shuttle bus service to/from the airport. (There are, of course, normal paid public buses that serve HKIA.) What I think your relative may have gotten it confused with is complimentary hotel bus services that are reserved for guests.
I'd recommend taking the HKIA Express though. It's a lot cheaper ($100) than getting a taxi and a ...
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Most retailers in Hong Kong do not accept RMB.
The 7-11 stores* have an enlightend policy where they will accept RMB at HKD face value and give you any change in HKD. As HKD are worth less than RMB they make a profit of the exchange rate on the transaction.
The current exchange rate is 1 RMB = 1.25114 HKD (April 2013), so the 7-11 stores are making an ...
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No you cannot reliably use Renminbi/Yuan in Hong Kong, you will have to exchange it.
Taxis generally do not accept them. Other shops generally do not display if they accept RMB or not, and if they accept it, you will most likely get change back in HKD.
You can either exchange at a bank or at one of the hundreds of money changers in Hong Kong. To my ...
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This rather more than a "shopping answer", hopefully.
How to determine if Jade is genuine:
This webpage provides an excellent discussion of types of genuine jade and of non genuine alternatives.
This page is also very useful
Excellent characteristics table for Jade and other materials.
A pocket spectrometer is possibly a really good tool. These are ...
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There are none left after the ones in Kai Tak and Diamond Coast closed in Kong Kong. you will have to go to China or Macao.
In Macao there is one the Cotai strip behind the golf court. I have however never been there and could not find an email/website either.
There are two in Zuhai: The Zhuhai Golden Apple Karting Circuit (used by the HK GoCart club) and ...
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There are a number of ferries between South Korea and China, via Tianjin or Qingdao. Both South Korea and China have a well-connected railway network, so it shouldn't be a problem to travel onward by train from the arrival point in China to Hong Kong.
For what it's worth, the same page also lists ferries between South Korea and Japan.
South Korea to Hong ...
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The supermarket chains in Hong Kong (such as Welcome) do accept RMB at a (not great) fixed rate. There are otherwise no fixed rules about which businesses accept RMB, however it is better to assume that most businesses do not.
That said, Hong Kong is changing fast with the increasing amount of mainland tourists. RMB usage is definitely rising throughout the ...
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Looks like the restricted area is restricted for the passengers only, so you will be in this area basically.
The non-restricted are is where anyone can come from the city, and which is before border control and security checks (from the perspective of people arriving from the city). You can assume that you will not get to this area (unless you want to go ...
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As far as I can tell reading on the embassies websites there is no reason for them to stop you at the airport at either destination. With the switch in BKK (Bangkok) I believe you will not enter customs and your luggage is automatically forwarded.
The people at Bangalore have the option of stopping you if they think you will be refused entry to your ...
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'Restricted area' are the shops near the departure gates, and if you stay within that area then you don't need to go through passport control. However, if you want to go into the non-restricted area then you will have to go through passport control. Hong Kong has fairly open rules for most nationalities and your get the visa as a stamp on-arrival (if you ...
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There are no "ferries" that travel the route. Ferries are not available for this distance since the minimum distance (bee line) from Hong Kong to Vietnam is 600+ kilometers. You would rather get on board a cruise ship.
Here are some cruises departing from various places in Vietnam, this one here for example going from Singapore via Vietnam to Hong Kong.
As ...
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You'll want to decide whether you need to make calls, send SMS, or if you're just after it for data.
Then take a look at the Prepaid Sim Card Wiki entry for Hong Kong.
Depending on what phone you have, you have a few options there, and it'll depend on how much data you plan on using in those five days, of course, as to which one suits you the best, but ...
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I lived in Hong Kong for nearly a year, and made multiple trips to mainland China while I was there.
I recommend getting your Chinese visa from a processing/expediting agent. I was there around the 2008 Olympics and visas were in high demand so lines were long and visas for US Citizens we're frequently being rejected and/or shortened.
My first visa ...
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I did the trip and I can confirm that with 2 hours you don't have time to go out of the restricted area (with the time I had, 3h 30m it's possible but not recommended).
I arrived at Gate 2 and my departure was from Gate 47, it's a long walk and you need to pass another security check. More or less you spend 1h 30m to do so. If you get out and you need to do ...
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You could ask on Flightfox - they have experts who will do all that searching for you, and often have serious skills at sniffing out that cheap flight.
It costs, but if they don't beat the price you can find it for, you get your money back, so there's not really much risk involved, and they could end up saving you quite a lot.
There's a referral link in ...
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We found that 3 gave the best coverage and price when we were in Hong Kong last month.
It's highly recommended you go to one of the numerous "Computer Centers" (eg Wan Chai Computer Center) to buy it. They will be more inclined to set it up for you and if it doesn't work, they will usually refund you.
Top-ups are easy to get from a 7-11.
Yes, you can get ...
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