The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together. It's as big as Christmas is for us. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, so this year it was the 23rd of January. All people living away from home go back, making this the buisiest time for transport systems, making it vvery difficult to get from place to place, so we found out when trying to get from Shanghai to Hong Kong. We arrived with not much clue to where we were going, luckily the bus we'd got from the airport took us fairly close to the address we had, so it just took a walk in the right direction (which we weren't going in at first cus i had the map, so we ended up 10 minutes the wrong way) but we soon got there. Our phones didn't work in Hong Kong, so finding the rest of the group looked like it'd be a problem, but we quickly realized they were in the same building just a few floors down.


To celebrate spring festival, Hong Kong puts on a big parade through the main streets followed by fireworks across the pier the night after. With it being the year of the dragon, much of the parade was dragon themed, with dragon costumes, and many dragon dances and floats. The fireworks were impressive, the scale of them meant that at points the sky was covered everywhere you looked. Apart from the parade, fireworks and the local market to the hostel, I didn't see much more of Hong Kong except from the main club and bar street. Hong Kong's night life was great though!