Star Ferry, Hong Kong

Today we wanted to go to the edge of Kowloon and look across to Hong Kong island for the classic view you always see on postcards. It didn’t take long to find and then we took the famous Star Ferry over to the other side. There were some bus stops where people were waiting and as it was a reasonably clear day, we thought we’d go up to the Peak to get the panoramic view of the city. There were 2 bus options: the regular bus that took you up to the peak; an open top tourist bus that took you to the tram station and then you took the tram up to the peak. We couldn’t decide which one to do so left it up to fate. We stood between the two bus stops and decided to jump on the first one that came. It was the open top tour bus. I haven’t been on one of those since I was about 8 and did a tour of Cardiff (does that bus still run?). I’d forgotten how much fun they were. We had a good view of the business district of Hong Kong. Most of the other passengers were Japanese and seemed more interested in getting photos of themselves on the bus than looking at the cityscape below. At the tram station, we bought our tickets and joined the queue with all the other tourists in Hong Kong. We called the only we know in Hong Kong (David Lee) and asked him to guess where we were. “Don’t tell me, up the peak” he said. Close: in the queue to go up the peak. We arranged to meet him the following day.