5. Timing is key
Since you are on a layover, you want to arrive, see, and experience as much as you can, and make it back to the airport two hours before your boarding time. Finding your way back to the station will be very easy, so long as you don’t venture out too far. Should you get lost, Google Maps will be your friend.
Once you make your way back into the train station, there will be two clear flows of pedestrian traffic presented in front of you. Because the transportation system is intricately designed to make pedestrian traffic as simple as possible, you can safely follow the one going the opposite way from where you came. There are only five stations and therefore, five stops maximum before getting off at Airport Station.
Though my time in Hong Kong was a lot less action-packed than a Chow Yun-Fat action flick, I was still deeply satisfied with the memories I made there. So much so that Francis, Omari, and I were even tempted to stay. What was supposed to simply be a long layover eventually became a key chapter of our trip to Asia.
It was with a grateful heart that we left Hong Kong. As expected, our friendship had indeed been permanently redefined by closer bonds founded on shared memories and a joint promise that one day, we would all see it together again.
Vladimir Jean-Gilles is a Haitian-Canadian travel and lifestyle journalist, and long time film critic and Critics Choice Awards voter.
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