The Peak at night

Because it was getting dark then, I made the decision to go back to the Peak to see it after dark. I had to change buses and I waited about half an hour. It was quite windy and I was thinking, have I made the right decision? But anyway, eventually the bus came and for not much money I returned to the Peak. 

I didn't go in the plaza straight away. Instead, I started at the finish point of the circular walk, so that I was on the right side for the city views. I walked around so far to get some photos. There were a lot of people doing the same thing, so it was a bit crowded. But wow, the views were spectacular! I'm sure my photos don't do the night scenes justice. It was lovely to see all the different coloured lights on the skyscrapers. A couple of the skyscrapers have light shows going on with different messages coming up on the sides of the buildings. It was incredible! I stood for a while just watching. But I have to say, it was pretty windy up there at night, and I was feeling quite chilly, so I decided to head back down to Central. 

When I had got off the bus, the queue of people waiting to catch a bus to go back down was horrendous. It was so, so long. So I thought to myself, maybe I'll just buy a single ticket and go back down on the tram. After I'd been and taken the photos I wanted to take, I went into the plaza to use the facilities. I did go out on one of the viewing platforms there, but it was blowing a gale, and I really couldn't get better photos than I'd taken from the trail. I went outside and realised that the queue for the tram was just as long as the one for the bus. And here they were queuing in an exposed area. It was very windy and quite cold. So I just thought, I've just got to bite the bullet and go and join the queue for the bus. At least it was in at the bus station, so it's sheltered, and I wouldn't be paying anything like the amount of money to get back down. I went and joined the queue. There were I don't know how many hundreds of people, but buses kept coming in and people kept getting on, and so I only waited about half an hour in the end. 

I went back down into Central on the bus, got off at Admiralty, and from there it's just one stop under the water to get back to where I'm staying on the Kowloon side. 

When I got back to my side, I realised I'd walked 23,000 steps during the day. It was getting late. I was tired. But more than that, I was suddenly hungry. I went past a chicken shop and thought, I need a couple of bits of fried chicken weird because I don't go to KFC anywhere in the world! I'm not really a fried chicken fan, but I just passed this chicken shop and thought, I'm going to have some! I got myself a couple of pieces of chicken and a drink and took them back to my room, by which point it was just gone ten o'clock. It had been a long day, but an  enjoyable one.Read more