The Peak at Night

Monday night was Anna, Lex and Tim’s last night in Hong Kong so we, along with Ryan and YoYo decided to check out the Peak at night and grab dinner in SoHo. We left campus a little before 5 and took the MTR to Hong Kong station, where we grabbed a bus that took us to the Peak. Unfortunately, we got stuck in rush hour traffic and it took a good hour for the bus to get to the top, but it was a fun experience. 

 When we finally got to the top, we got a little lost, since the bus dropped us off in a different location, and we ended up getting separated from Tim, Ryan and YoYo. Anna, Lex and I finally made it into the Peak Terrace, where all the shops are and wandered around for a while. We stuck around to check out the light show at 8pm, but we were on the wrong side of Victoria Harbor to actually see it. So we headed to SoHo for dinner. We grabbed dinner at Jasper’s, a restaurant that had a variety of dishes- from Italian and Mexican! 

We then headed back to campus, and reminisced on our past semester. Once we got back to campus, we said our good-byes, since Anna and Lex both left Tuesday morning (it is now Tuesday night, Hong Kong time).

The Peak and Victoria Harbor

Lingnan and OMIP have organized 3 days of optional tours to give students a chance to explore some popular areas of Hong Kong. This past Saturday was the first day and I attended the Peak and Victoria Harbor cruise tour.

When I visited Hong Kong in 2006 with P2P we arrived just after a typhoon so the it was very foggy and overcast, providing a poor view from the Peak. For our tour, we were all hoping for a beautiful day and we certainly lucked out with the weather.

We took the tram from the Garden Road Peak Tram Lower Terminus to the Peak Tower.

  

 

Up at the Peak Tower I walked around with a few people and took in the view. A group of us walked up a nearby hill in hopes of getting a different view.

We walked around the shopping area at the top and a group of little boys came up to us and wanted to ask us a few questions to practice their English (I think they were part of some club or Boy Scouts type of thing). They were interested in our impressions of Hong Kong, why we were here and such.

We then took a bus down to the Harbor where we went on a boat cruise along Victoria Harbor. It was a great chance to see the skyscrapers and mountains among Hong Kong.

I want to see both the view from the Peak and Victoria Harbor at night. Every night along Victoria Harbor there is a light show and that is definitely on my to-see/do list.