Want to know what’s between Hong Kong and Macau? Water of course! About an hour’s worth of it when taking a hydrofoil.

Besides the water you can see some interesting barely inhabited islands, shipping vessels, and of course other hydrofoils shipping people with money to lose to Macau, and people with empty pockets back (those that win at the casinos will probably spend a good chunk taking the chopper back).

What’s the best way to kill time when going across? Well film the trip of course! At least that way you know you can bore everyone else with your video when you get back!

So while this video won’t win any awards, if you are slightly masochistic, have a few minutes to kill, or just want to see what it’s like between Macau and Hong Kong, then go ahead and watch it! Just don’t say we didn’t warn you!

We just touched down in Singapore at a bit past midnight local time and are just back home after what has been a really great trip in Macau and Hong Kong! This trip has given us excellent insight into how we can plan our future travels and how we can make this website a very exciting place to visit!

To start off with we will be editing the videos of our trip and posting clips of them here for all of you to see! We have quite a few hours of footage and will be selecting the best (best of us anyway ) for our video blog

There are also some exciting new projects we will be working on in our travels! We’ll update you with more information soon, but for now, we’ll be calling it a night since it’s 2am and we need some sleep!

Today started similarly to most other days, the sun rose on the horizon while we slept, the sun climbed high into the sky, and we still slept. But then the piercing sound of the alarm in our phone woke us from our slumber. Today we had to be somewhere at noon and we needed to be up before then.

We got up and ate some rolls we had bought yesterday in anticipation of not having time to get proper food. And then we were off to the catch a bus.

The first hour on the bus was definitely the most boring, we wound around the streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon stopping every few minutes to pick up passengers before speeding off again and just as quickly coming to an abrupt stop to pick up more.

After that it was off to some winding mountain roads, but the driver didn’t seem to drive much slower than he did on the highway. But this is Hong Kong, and it is still a lot better than driving in China, so we sat there hoping to arrive soon.

Time ticked on and the winding continued, the little food in my stomach wanted to come out, but I tried to keep it down. After all, it was nearly 3pm and I had only eaten breakfast. I was hungry, and still I was car-sick. The winding roads were very narrow and in some places only one vehicle could fit through, but still we pressed on.

Where we were going had better be good to make this drive worth it. Finally our first destination came into sight, the giant buddha in Lantau island. Once the largest buddha in the world and now still one of the most impressive. We stopped there for the customary photos, but this was not what we had really come to see.

The 200+ steps leading to the giant buddah.

Posing behind the buddha with a mountain behind.

After another 20 minute ride we finally reached what we came to see, the Tai O fishing village in Hong Kong. A village that is a world away from the skyscrapers and financial buildings for which Hong Kong is so well known. In this village most houses are built on stilts and traditional fishing boats still go out to see as they have done for the past 400 years!!

This doesn’t look much like the Hong Kong on postcards does it?

Traditional fishing boats and nets.

Overall though, the streets are full of tourists and imported Chinese goods for sale, and most of the small town feel seems to have been lost, at least while the tourists throng the streets. In any case, it is definitely an interesting side of Hong Kong, and I wish I could have stayed there a bit longer to see it further. But alas, we had to catch a ferry and another sea-sick trip back to Hong Kong.

A traditional fishing boat we got extremely close to while on the ferry to Hong Kong.

Today we saw some of the world’s most famous porn stars. To get to them we had to take a taxi to a relatively remote area in the south of Hong Kong island. Once there we had to go up a narrow staircase up a hill to a huge brightly painted building. As could be expected, we had to pay our way in.

Our first glimpse of the stars came as they walked out of their bedrooms - in the buff - they then pranced around and went back in. Afterwards two other stars came out and began frolicking and “playing” together. They then sat down for a meal, a meal of freshly cut bamboo. After all, these stars are Giant Pandas not humans.

So what made them the world’s most famous porn stars? Pandas are in real danger of extinction. Their habitat is being wiped out as China’s bamboo forests are cut down to make way for urban expansion, and so far it has been very difficult to get them to breed in captivity. To solve this problem, scientists have got pandas to watch panda porn to try to help them reproduce in captivity. And since this story came out in BBC a few years back, it has been one of the most emailed, according to their site.

I’m a world famous porn star! Watch me at work!

I always feel hungry after a day’s work!

This doesn’t taste like bamboo??