Tuesday, May 03, 2005


Chunking Mansions


This was the final hostel we stayed in, and delightful it was too. We actually came to this building looking for a the dragon hostel, but got cornered in the entrance hall by a strange little man who bundled us into a lift and took us to a different hostel. It was ok in so much it was clean and quite cheap, but the boys room was full of clouds of bugs, and our room had no hot water, not to mention that due to the slight lack of any sound proofing on the windows, our room was essentially the same as sleeping in the main road outside. The hot water was not so much of an issue though, as when getting up at 5am to get to the airport, a cold shower is actually quite refreshing. I don`t think Ant was quite so optimistic about it when she wanted a bath on the first night though.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did you know Chungking Mansions are world-famous (well, kinda)? There's a Wong Kar-Wai film set there, called Chungking Express. I assumed that's why you stayed there.

Chungking Express is really good by the way, despite having a pop star in the lead role.

4:27 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha! Just found a description of Chungking Mansions as a "drug-filled, rundown hostel populated by Indians, Pakistanis and Nepalese"!

4:29 pm  
Blogger niko-chan said...

I would say that was a pretty spot on description! Aparently over 4000 people live in this building.

1:31 pm  

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