Hong Kong - Day 4

We woke up to a quiet downtown. Earlier, there had been heavy rain and winds but that had died down. We were puzzled by the lack of people and buses on the street. When we walked out around 11 a.m., the stores were closed. We wandered to a nearby mall and found out that there was a typhoon signal no.8 hoisted. Serious stuff. Apparently while we slept, there had been some wind damage and now people were being asked to stay indoors for protection.

So what do the tourists do? I was at the largest mall in HK with over 700 stores but couldn’t shop! This is the busiest closed mall I’ve ever seen. We managed to find food cause the restaurants didn’t close and enjoyed a couple of dry hours in a Starbucks near our hostel thanks to a nice lady at the 7 Eleven.

We found out later that winds of 227 km had been recorded at the monastery we were planning on visiting that day.