Mount Everest of Hong Kong. We climbed The Peak

As what only can be described as the shortest night sleep ever, we headed out on a good old Sunday walk, with a twist. After reading lots about Hong Kong before I left, mainly things to do that are free to occupy my time while I look for work. I thought the walk up to The Peak would be a great day out. I want to get back into shape before I start work.

We packed a backpack and set off, jumping on a tram to Queens Road East. We took a detour to the supermarket to pick up some lunch to eat at the top. Some fresh Sushi and rolls. We then headed through a shopping mall to reach the road we needed to take to start our climb. This is a funny thing about a city built on a mountain. You have to navigate your way through shopping centres to reach roads, in our case, on floor 17, where we would take Kennedy Road and begin our climb.

Another slight detour took us to a separate lift. A glass lift on the outside of a building, The Hopewell Centre. What a sight. The views while heading up what must have been 100 floors, actually 57^th, was spectacular, if the journey up wasn’t a tad scary. Glass lift plus side of building equal heart stopping.

From Kennedy Road we started our vertical walk up to the Peak, passing very few people going the same way as us. We walked past some of the most expensive places to live in Hong Kong. The lushness of the Peak and the cooler air means the rich and famous choose this as their preferred place to live. The living hierarchy of Hong Kong.

The walk became more strenuous the higher we climbed, till we found Old Peak Road. This was the equivalent to the top elevation setting on a treadmill and the hardest setting on a cross trainer. After over an hour of walking, this was hard work. In 40-degree heat, you can only imagine the sweat dripping from us.

We arrived at the top to a man who simply said ‘there is a tram you know’. Made me smile. We headed straight to the mall to embellish the air con and sit in a freezer followed by some more embracing of the air con.

We finally cooled down and headed to a picnic point to have our lunch and sit in the sunshine. A great feeling of exhaustion. We popped to the shops on route back to the apartment to buy ingredients to make squash and sweet potato soup. Yam and Pumpkin it is as squash and sweet potato aren't cheap or easy to spot. Another wonderful day in HK.