The view from the peak of the highest mountain on Hong Kong island really can't be done justice in a photograph (although our effort is provided above). It truly presents a spectacular image of the city and surrounding areas and demonstrates simultaneously the miniature size of the country (well, Special Administrative Region) and the massive scale of the man made objects located all around.
To reach The Peak (and yes, that is the official if unoriginal name) you can either walk (yeah, good luck), drive (yeah, good luck) or take the world's steepest fenicular. Nervy stuff, but if it's the world's steepest, we kinda had to do it.
Earlier in the day we took a lazy amble through the streets of Hong Kong island - though one could hardly call this relaxing. The pace here for the locals is as frantic as Manhattan. We did manage to find a pleasant little park (once again, the natives demonstrated little imagination when they named this Hong Kong Park), complete with an artificial lake, a populous conservatory and (a little strangely) a miniature Olympic Park. There are few places in the world better suited to sitting down and having an ice cream though.
