If you’re ever in Hong Kong, do yourself a favour and catch the Kennedy Town to Happy Valley tram.
For $2.40 it’s quite possibly THE cheapest sight-seeing tour of HK you’ll ever find yourself on and is a marvellous way to pass the better part of a day away.
You’ll see entire streets of shops all selling the same goods (no such thing as market saturation here), florists rushing hurriedly about delivering gigantic bouquets of flowers and parents walking their kids home from school. Peer out to your left and you’ll notice the gritty highrises with washing hanging from balconies, scaffolding made from bamboo and hawker stands selling food from the kerbside. Look to your right and you’ll notice the business people pouring out of buildings, melding into the crowds gathering at the traffic lights. Look up and if it’s Sunday you’ll see over 300,000 Filipino maids on their one day off a week out enjoying each others company, congregating anywhere they can gather. You’ll see beggars missing limbs and tourists wrangling maps. You’ll see hole-in-the-wall bars filled with expats and locals selling every electronic item under the sun.
There is no “guided” tour as such. But for want of sight, sometimes it’s much more fun to watch and observe life happening before your very eyes.