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Day 4 in Hong Kong is totally devoted to Disneyland. It was a day where we relived our childhood once again.

In the morning, we took MTR from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sunny Bay station, and from there transferred to Disneyland Resort Station. As it was a Sunday morning, lots of tourists and locals flocked to Disneyland. The ticket cost HKD350 which is SGD$70.

Disneyland is a child’s fantasy. The landscape is designed and decorated with a classic old American theme with colourful painted streets with candies, ice-cream, toys and souvenir stores. A mini fire-station, a bakery, mini train station, camera stores, parks, amusement rides added on to this dreamland. There is also a retro double-decker bus and classic old western taxi driven by service crew to provide transportation. A mini train system built within the theme park help to transport visitors from one attraction to another.

We spent more of our time taking photos with Disney characters and tried a few of the rides like Space Mountain and Autopia. Fancy me, a soldier in Disneyland taking kiddy rides, but image here isn’t the greatest concern as there will always be a kid in all of us.

We ended our tour of Disneyland at 5.30pm after watching the Lion King performance, which was performed in a mixture of English and Cantonese, which gave me great confusion caused by their dialogue and I got bored. We left Disneyland after the Lion King performance ended at 5pm.

Next, we returned to Tsim Sha Tsui and visited Avenue of Stars, which we failed to do so on Day 1.

Avenue of Stars is located next to the river separating Tsim Sha Tsui and Central. Every night at 8pm, there would be a laser performance – Symphony of Lights. It is a laser display with lasers shining from buildings at both sides of the river. It was not very impressive, so we left halfway to continue to our next stop –  Jordan.

At Jordan, we shopped at the local night market and I bought a backpack from one of the street vendors. For once, I felt like a mute because the street vendor spoke to me in fast Cantonese and I could not understand. It’s really difficult to grasp and the older Hong Konger doesn’t understand Mandarin. So I had to bargain by typing my preferred price into the vendor’s calculator. Numbers speak louder than words.

From Jordan, we shopped all the way back to Tsim Sha Tsui and returned to our hotel. In the hotel, I tried to pack my stuff into the backpack I just bought. Everything fits in and it was a good purchase at that kind of price. And then we all slept when all of Tsim Sha Tsui is still awaked!