The thing about a free and easy trip is that you sometimes end up wasting a lot of time sleeping in the hotel room. Today I woke around 10am because a fire has broken out some where nearby. I can’t see it, but I could hear the sirens going on and off and past my room Apparently, it’s a fire so bad that several firemen were killed..

Anyway, the view outside my room is actually quite hideous, if you can even call that a view. You can see from the first photo and it looked exactly like the kind of place show in the movie 老港正传… and it shows a city in decay. Anyway, after lazing in the room and analyzing where I wanted to go, I finally decided to go to Wan Chai and to the Peak.

This trip was made based on the recommendation of my best friend’s dear wife, who is a Hong Konger herself, but I made some modifications myself. Took the MTR down to Wan Chai MRT and walked to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre first instead of taking the MTR down to Tsim Sha Tsui and take the ferry across.

After taking some photos at the place, I made my way back to Johnston Road and took the Tram to the Legislative Council and take a short walk up the Tram Terminus (to the Peak) past St. John Cathedral.

It was a great trip as it was quite cooling up at the Peak, and the view is… well, you have to see on your own. It’s definitely a place you should not miss when you visit Hong Kong, provided you have not visited it before. My personal recommendation is to reach the Terminus around 6pm as there might be a long queue at the Terminus so by the time you reach the top the sun is about to set.

After which, pick up a good position and wait to darkness to fall. Then you can start snapping away. I am quite sure you can’t find any such great vantage point anywhere else in Hong Kong, and by the way, is there any place in Singapore we can take photos like these?