Today we went and explored Hong Kongs many street markets, starting with the Ladies Market which is supposed to be kitchen based goods and gadgets and fun stuff like that, but actually turned out to be the same tourist tat that was in the Night Markets we have seen before. After that we walked to the Goldfish Market, which is a collection of pet shops predominently selling fish, tortoises and terrapins, but some of them were also selling dogs and rabbits which looked far too hot in their shop windows.

After this we walked on and came to Flower Market Road, which as the name suggests is full of flower stalls all laden with the most amazing bouquets and plants.

Then finally just a short walk on from there we found the Bird Garden. This was an amazing market full of singing and chirping birds as well as all the paraphernalia that you need to keep them, including their food, lots and lots of crickets, some in net bags, some just loose in tubs. They were jumping all over the place and at one point I thought it might be like a biblical plague as they started hopping all into the path in front of me. Fortunately we survived to tell the tale.

We then took the Star Ferry back to Hong Kong island and it was still fun during the day.

In the evening we went to the open air swimming pool on the roof of our hotel and watched the sunset, and the storm clouds that were rolling in.