Day 28: Sat 13th Nov 2010 – Day 30: Mon 15th Nov 2010 – Hong Kong

We spent Saturday morning doing a little exploring on foot. As the city is situated on the side of a mountain this involves a lot of walking up and down stairs which I'm sure must keep the locals very fit. During our wandering we found a carnival being set up so decided on going there in the evening. Before we could enjoy the festivities though we had a mountain to get to the top of. We had read that it was a hard two hour plus walk to the “The Peak” (the top mountain on Hong Kong Island), this didn't sound too appealing so opted to get the tram instead.

The views at the top make you really appreciate just what an amazing city it is. There are literally hundreds of skyscrapers making up the skyline. The view on other side of the mountain its the complete opposite all you can see if green slopes and sea. Having thoroughly looked in every direction we decided to make our way down on foot. During the ascent we were very glad we didn't walk up as the people who were seemed to be well kitted out in running gear and still gushing with sweat.

The evenings entertainment was the carnival we had seen earlier in the day. The roads were lined with stalls selling food and drink, it very much reminded me of Notting Hill carnival just a bit classier. We had some drinks and watched various stages with entertainment and had a merry time. When it started getting late he headed back to the apartment picking up some beers on the way. This is when the drunken silliness really began. Michael had acquired and inflatable hammer which inspired us to start playing drinking “Mallets Mallet”. This obviously worked well at getting us very drunk and causing the next thing to happen. Michael asked at 4am if he could trim my Mohawk. It had been getting a little long so I agreed even though I though his clippers would make it a bit shorter than I would like it. Before he went in with the clippers he wanted to trim it with scissors, bad idea, very bad idea. With in 5 seconds he had done irreversible damage that meant I had to shave my whole head down to a 0.5 grade. The clippers would only thenn work for about a minute at a time before the battery would run out and they would need charging. During the charging time we had some more beers to numb the pain of losing my prize hair cut.

The whole of Sunday was spent recovering from the previous nights partying.

On the Monday we opted for a more fun than cultural day. We headed to Ocean park, a theme park a short way out of the centre of town which like most things in Hong Kong is based on the side of a mountain. We had a good time on the rides but did realise how spoilt we are at home with our big, high budget parks. I did find though that roller coasters there seemed to go slower but that actually seemed to make them more scary, the rides at home are so fast you cant really tell what's happening.