Adventurers of Hong Kong

Greetings, blog followers! We have had relatives visiting for the past week or so, so I was too busy to blog. But now, I present to you the activities that we did!

We had a few repeats- the Stanley Market and the Laser Light Show, for instance- but we also went on some new adventures. The first of these was the Dragon's Back trail, which is stage eight of the Hong Kong Trail*. There are a few ups and downs verging on mild insanity, but the view from the top is breathtaking.

*The Hong Kong Trail is a hiking trail stretching across the entire island of Hong Kong. You may know a bit of stage one from the post in which we encountered the giant golden orb spider.

It was incredibly windy at the top. All the bugs went away, but it was also hard to stand still.

One of the other places we visited was a combination zoo/park. We saw a variety of interesting creatures.

Wildlife Report:

Flamingos!

Ring-tailed lemurs. You may recognize them from Madagascar.

Blue heron. They regularly grow to be over a meter in height.

I forget the exact name for this primate… I just know that it has a cool beard.

Again, I don't know the name. I do know, however, that it is a giant blue pigeon with a shock of fuzz on its head.

A crane. This one was about as large as the herons.

 Videos

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A crane flapping its wings.

An ape doing three laps of swinging around its cage.

Thanks for reading!

Bonus: Laser Light Show!

As mentioned above, we headed out to see the laser light show again. If you need a memory refresher, the light show is a combination of lasers and buildings lighting up to the beat of some music.

Here's a picture of the event.