Hong Kong Peak

Continuing our day in Hong Kong we then headed over to the Hong Kong Peak. This cable car incline takes you to the tallest point in Hong Kong above all the buildings. It is breathtaking. It has since become a little over commercialized with Bubba Gump, EA Sports, and restaurants that charge $100 a bottle for wine. But none the less, it was nice.

When you are going up the incline at points the car is on a 45 degree hill, it is pretty intense. And you just keep shooting up right past all the skyscrapers, very surreal.

Once you are at the top, you go up a series of escalators another 5 stories, and it gives you a pretty good sense of vertigo.

Once on the top, there is an amazing view. And what else? A burger king. So you know I need this photo!
Totally had it my way!

The next pictures speak for themselves, just awesome.
All the buildings have there own lighting effect. Changing colors, chasing, and doing other cool designs. The building you see in blue, green, and pink we were told tells the time of the day by the lighting pattern of the building. And at each hour it goes into a strobe effect.

The center building you see is the new Hong Kong skyline landmark owned by China bank. It used to be the highest in the world about 5 years ago.
And the building to the right(2 pictures up) with the white lines on it was the old Hong Kong landmark.
Upon leaving the peak, we walked for a while to get to the bar district. Here is an awesome tree, with its roots growing out of the concrete on the side of the road.
Hong Kong is heavily influenced by the British, so all the cars are driven on the left side of the road. The driver’s seat is on the other side of the car. And when walking around town the “up” escalator changes from time to time from left side to right side. We noticed an interesting fact. There isn’t a regular flow of traffic on the sidewalks or in hallways. In the states the flow of traffic is on the right, and in Britain it is on the left. But because some things are “regular” style and other’s are “Britain” style it causes people to walk on both sides of a hallway. It’s very weird after you have realized this fact.
We came across this building and every construction site has bamboo. I am told it is strong, looks a little jerry-rigged in my mind.

And then we came to the bar street

Random Sign...

and ended up at Ivan the Zovak. We met back up with a lot of the cast to enjoy this gem; it is a Russian/Ukrainian restaurant with a full staff from Ukraine. It was delicious, here is my beef stroganoff. AWESOME, with potatoes.
And to top it off the owner gave us a bottle of pepper and fruit vodka. And who got the worm? Yep, it was a lot of fun.

They also have this room they call the “Snow Room”. You put on fur coats and hats and go in this freezer to do shots of vodka from around the world. We had a lot of fun. And had A LOT of vodka.
Finishing off our fun day in Hong Kong we walked about an hour to get back to the bus to take us back to Shenzhen. And within minutes we were back in the smog filled air and nasty smells that is mainland China.