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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
This is your captain speaking.
It's my pleasure to welcome you aboard Cafe Pacific's costliest encounters of the Hong
Kong kind.
Please fasten your money belts as we're about to begin one of life's great adventures, Hong
Kong.
Oh, and by the way, if you want a tip from me, if you're going shopping, don't buy too
much on your first day.
Take a good look around and compare the prices.
And don't forget to use your costliest encounters card.
It's your introduction to a special free gifts or automatic discounts of hundreds of items
and services at selected outlets.
The weather forecast for the night tomorrow.
Oh, excellent.
Wasn't the service great?
Fabulous.
Oh, yeah.
Those girls are gorgeous, aren't they?
They come from nine different countries.
They come from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand.
Don't forget the cabinet's tip.
No shopping on the first day.
Oh, but we're not going to spend the whole time sightseeing.
Why?
This is the most spectacular city in the whole world.
Yeah, I know, but spectacular shopping too.
Look.
If this is the hotel lobby, what's the rest like?
Yeah.
Welcome to the Excelsior Hotel.
I do hope you'll stay here and enjoy.
Here's your key.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Nice room.
Would you check that view?
Oh, this is the famous food street.
Yep.
I'm pleased we came.
It would have been impossible staying on our first night.
Well, why don't we eat at the boil and boil?
I can hardly wait to go shopping tomorrow.
I want those bargains out there calling me Victoria.
Victoria, bye.
Bye.
We didn't come all this way just to go shopping.
Go shopping any day of the week, back home.
Not at those prices, you can't.
Tell you what, I've got an idea.
You want to go sightseeing, right?
I want to go shopping, so let's toss heads for sightseeing, tails for shopping.
All right.
Sightseeing, miss.
Go.
Tell me.
Go.
Can't tell anyway.
This is Victoria Peak.
It's the highest mountain on the island.
It's the best panoramic view of Hong Kong you will ever see.
That's Causeway Bay, where we started out this morning.
It's a very nice place to go to go shopping.
This is Victoria Park.
The Noonday Gun and the Typhoon Shelter are its main features.
To the west of the Bay Area is the once infamous Wan Chai Nightclub District.
Now the old clubs have been replaced with restaurants and high-rise offices.
Near, there is the oldest part of Hong Kong.
It dates back to the 1840s.
It's now the island's most densely populated area.
However, it's retained a lot of the old world Chinese charm.
Moving on to Central, the heart and capital of Hong Kong, also known as Victoria.
Central is now the third most important financial market in the world.
It's really a mini Manhattan with many banks, multinational corporations, and financiers.
Over the harbor lies Kowloon and the new territories,
the largest region in Hong Kong to retain the old Chinese way of life.
In particular, the Sun Dynasty Village,
a fateful reproduction of a 1,000-year-old Chinese township.
Inside its walls are authentic recreations of 10th century lifestyle in China.
Did you know that in Hong Kong that they've got heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of beaches?
And on those beaches they've got life savers.
And that's because they're public beaches.
And not only that, they've got an ocean park which has got the largest oceanarium in the world.
It's got wall-to-wall dolphins and whales and everything.
And you can even have a chairlift ride.
But did you know there's a place here called Aberdeen?
Oh.
And in Aberdeen there's 10,000 people live on the water
and lots of those people never even make it onto the land.
And also there's floating restaurants and things where you can pick your own fish
and they'll cook it for you right in front of you.
Do you know that?
No.
Let's eat there tonight.
Oh, yeah.
There's our fish.
Hi.
Do you know that suit I've been telling you about?
Yeah.
I'm going to have it made right here.
Right here?
All I have to do is show them a picture and three days later there's a beautiful suit waiting for me.
Where's the picture?
Oh, here's the picture.
You are pretty.
Oh, yes.
You like it?
Yeah, that's nice.
Okay, I'll see you later.
All right, well I'm going to the other shop.
Okay.
Okay.
Ah, another cost lesson counters shop.
So you think you can make me a suit just like this, Mr. James?
Yes, sir.
And if I use my cost lesson counters card I get a discount?
Yes, sir.
You work on it.
Oh, great.
This looks like the right place.
Do you want to like?
Oh, yeah, look.
$15 each, not Hong Kong dollars.
You didn't haggle, did you?
No, they're all fixed prices.
Oh.
Oh.
Take a bow.
Okay.
Oh, look, hon.
Hi, bye, mush.
No more shoes till we get more luggage.
No more shoes till we get more luggage.
No more shoes till we get more luggage.
Hang on a moment.
Sports shoes.
Sports shoes.
Oh, that'll be right, wouldn't it?
You get the shoes and I don't get new shoes.
Hey, look at the trombone.
I could do a tap to that.
What do you reckon?
Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty.
Ah, look.
Okay, let's go.
Oh, that's nice.
Good morning, Hong Kong.
It's six o'clock.
You're still in bed.
You're missing the crates, huh?
Come on, let's go for jobs.
Warm and sunny, 25.
I ain't by so early in the morning exercises.
What, the way you do them is standing still?
Come on, you're falling behind.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to do it.
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This is your captain, Steve Holland speaking.
Thank you for flying Cathay Pacific Hong Kong's Hull of the Airline.
On behalf of your Boeing 747 crew,
we hope you enjoyed your costless encounter of the Hong Kong time,
and we hope to see you on board again soon.