You will spend the first day wandering around the city. It is awesome – warm and bustling. You will make your way to the mid-levels – an international neighborhood that gradually slopes into the mountains. You will ride the winding series of escalators that take you to the top, but you will make a brief stop to get pizza. After months of eating gross to mediocre (possibly mayonnaise filled) pizza in Japan, this Hong Kong pizza will be delicious. Mmm, authentic pizza. It will severely burn the roof of your mouth (a necessary sacrifice to save your tongue), but you won’t care. After checking the price of real-estate in this neighborhood (yikes!) you will reboard the escalators and take them to the top. Walking back down will take you through some odd paths, and you will eventually reach a zoo randomly situated in a park/forest south of the city. The jaguar will not be doing anything, but the gibbons will be interesting. They sure do know how to have a good time. In one of the parks, you will meet a young Asian-American mother with a midwestern accent. When you ask her, she will tell you that Obama won the Iowa caucus. Hazzah! A good day indeed.
That night, you will take the world famous tram up to Victoria Peak – a high point on Hong Kong island with a view of the entire city. At the top is a 5-story shopping center complete with an EA store and wax museum. You will forgo the wax museum to play several rounds of NBA Street: Homecourt at the EA store. If your parents’ could see you and your friend playing videogames at a tourist attraction at the top of Hong Kong, they would laugh – or yell. After this realization, you only played for another two minutes. At the top of the viewing station, you will be treated to an amazing view of the city. You will also meet some American travelers who claim that you can view the nightly light-show from the peak. This is untrue. From your vantage point, you can tell that a light show exists – for other people, who are standing in designated light-show-viewing areas. The peak is not one of these areas. You will not be able to enjoy the light show.
After the unviewable light-show, you will decide not to take the tram back down the mountain, but rather, take the hour walk down the dimly lit trails that lead into the city. As you are on your way to do this, you encounter a young Hong Kongian (Hong Konger? Hong Kongese?) couple. When you ask them the location of the footpath, they will talk you out of walking down the mountain. They will not say, “It is a stupid idea,” but this is what they will be thinking. Instead, they will convince you to take the tram back down with them.
You will spend the first day wandering around the city. It is awesome – warm and bustling. You will make your way to the mid-levels – an international neighborhood that gradually slopes into the mountains. You will ride the winding series of escalators that take you to the top, but you will make a brief stop to get pizza. After months of eating gross to mediocre (possibly mayonnaise filled) pizza in Japan, this Hong Kong pizza will be delicious. Mmm, authentic pizza. It will severely burn the roof of your mouth (a necessary sacrifice to save your tongue), but you won’t care. After checking the price of real-estate in this neighborhood (yikes!) you will reboard the escalators and take them to the top. Walking back down will take you through some odd paths, and you will eventually reach a zoo randomly situated in a park/forest south of the city. The jaguar will not be doing anything, but the gibbons will be interesting. They sure do know how to have a good time. In one of the parks, you will meet a young Asian-American mother with a midwestern accent. When you ask her, she will tell you that Obama won the Iowa caucus. Hazzah! A good day indeed. 
That night, you will take the world famous tram up to Victoria Peak – a high point on Hong Kong island with a view of the entire city. At the top is a 5-story shopping center complete with an EA store and wax museum. You will forgo the wax museum to play several rounds of NBA Street: Homecourt at the EA store. If your parents’ could see you and your friend playing videogames at a tourist attraction at the top of Hong Kong, they would laugh – or yell. After this realization, you only played for another two minutes. At the top of the viewing station, you will be treated to an amazing view of the city. You will also meet some American travelers who claim that you can view the nightly light-show from the peak. This is untrue. From your vantage point, you can tell that a light show exists – for other people, who are standing in designated light-show-viewing areas. The peak is not one of these areas. You will not be able to enjoy the light show.
After the unviewable light-show, you will decide not to take the tram back down the mountain, but rather, take the hour walk down the dimly lit trails that lead into the city. As you are on your way to do this, you encounter a young Hong Kongian (Hong Konger? Hong Kongese?) couple. When you ask them the location of the footpath, they will talk you out of walking down the mountain. They will not say, “It is a stupid idea,” but this is what they will be thinking. Instead, they will convince you to take the tram back down with them.
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