Day 1: Never ending travel
We landed! After a 4am start at the Tucson airport, a quick hop over to L.A., a 6 hour layover, and then a 14.5 hour flight to Hong Kong … we are exhausted and so ready to be off the plane.
Leaving Hong Kong: It was night time, so this was all we got to see. We had quite the adventure getting out of HK and then getting into China, though. We boarded 2 charter busses (50 people, 100+ bags/luggage) and start driving out of the city. We then had to stop, unload, reload onto a shuttle bus that took us to customs. We had already gone through customs at the HK airport, but had to now go through customs for entering mainland China. That took probably an hour to get us all through. Then we board another shuttle bus, which then takes us to another bus station where we finally load onto our final busses and begin the trip to Huizhou.
We arrived at our hotel at 1am (China time). It is a beautiful hotel! A dinner buffet was set out and waiting. It was delicious! We got our rooms and headed to bed. I was warned that the beds here were a lot firmer. Uh, yeah. I thought that would mean not a whole lot of give to the mattress. Nope. It’s practically like a board with a thin layer of padding on top. SURPRISINGLY, it was pretty comfortable. The room was big, the bathroom was big, the shower was big. All in all, a very pleasant stay. We had a breakfast buffet this morning (all the meals are buffet – very dangerous to my waistline!).
Next post: Day 2 Exploring Huizhou