Hey - for all you girls who love big cities and shopping…Hong Kong, China is the place to go. No matter where you go there is no place that’s anything like Hong Kong.

There are a ton of malls in Hong Kong. Some of them are as tall as 16-17 stories high! Others though are right out on the street. You can go up an alley and barter with the Hong Kong natives who come every day to sell everything from jewelry to cars to board games.

Everywhere you go in Hong Kong, there are tall buildings. The alleys are often between two 60-70 story buildings! The housing apartments are all around 60 stories tall too. If you live at the top of one of those, you’d better hope you don’t get motion sick because you can actually feel the building swaying underneath you. Housing Developments can have around 20-30 buildings in them. Each building is about 60 stories high and each story has 4-5 separate apartments in it.

Another thing about Hong Kong that is very different is their food. While you can get things like McDonalds and Burger King, you also can have restaurants where you can have what’s call Dim sum. That kind of food consists of things like shrimp wraps and steamed pork balls and shrimp pasta just to name a few.

The food leads me to something else. The exchange rate for money over there is eight Hong Kong dollars for one American dollar approximately. A kid’s meal at McDonalds costs about 40 dollars because of that. That’s only 5 dollars American! The American Dollar is worth a lot over there.

The only downside to a vacation in Hong Kong is that there’s a plane flight of approximately 17-18 hours over there. It’s a very long flight to get there but it’s definitely worth it once you get there. You should try it some time!