Hong Kong - Macau: Jewelry Factory, Victoria Peak + Factory Outlet

From the Aberdeen Fishing Village, we were then herded to more tourist traps like the Jewelry Factory and a factory outlet for clothes.
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Let's talk about the jewelry factory first. From the bus pa lang, Mr. Lee was on full sales talk mode already. He discussed the merits of buying jewelry from this factory vs. buying from the shops outside. Kesyo it's an affiliate of the government daw, and they offer a 14-day money back guarantee, and they issue a receipt and a warranty of sorts...and all that stuff. I should know better; I should be able to smell a tourist trap from miles away but, whaddya know? We fell for this sales talk big time! Yes, I am ashamed to admit that we did a little jewelry shopping in this government affiliated jewelry factory. But if it's any consolation, hindi lang naman kami ang bumili, most of the other tourists that we came with did not leave empty-handed. Haha!
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So what did we see at the jewelry factory? I was expecting to witness the actual creation of pieces of jewelry, but there was none. We were first led to a room where a guy, who reminded me of Mr. Bean and who spoke with a chinese-british accent, gave a short talk on their bling. To motivate the tourists to listen, he said that at the end of the talk, he will be asking questions and whoever answers correctly will be given a prize. The words free, prize and jewelry were enough to make me really listen to Mr. Bean. And guess what?! It did pay off! I won a prize -- and so did my brother Jof! Yesss!! Hehe! Mick overheard my dad saying to another tourist that both of the winners were his children; his eldest and his youngest child. The tourist then said to my dad that his children are very good, and my dad said, "yes, especially when it's for free, they are also very fast." Hahaha!!
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Jof and I won a tiny piece of garnet, by the way and for an additional HKD150, you can get the garnet pendant set in silver. We both paid the additional HKD150 and mom was joking that we didn't really win anything because we had to pay for it. Hahaha!!!
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I think we stayed for two hours at the jewelry factory. After that, we were off to the mid-levels of Victoria Peak. Everyone was eager to go to Disneyland so we just drove by. We were also not allowed to take photos inside the jewelry factory (no surprise there) so let me just share with you photos that I took on the bus.
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Sorry for the blurry pic, but this caught our attention. Car Beautician. How catchy is that?
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aThe view from the mid-levels of Victoria Peak.
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More city shots.
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I almost forgot: we made one last stop at a factory outlet before heading to Disney pala. It was a quick stop because there was nothing interesting inside the shop.

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Mom and Richard crossing the street to the factory outlet.
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aThis photo was taken by Jof outside the factory outlet. Nice!
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With the compulsory Hong Kong city tour finally over, we can now go to Disneyland. Yey!