HongKong Jan 2014

So I just came back from HongKong. Went there for 7 days, and was really more ambitious, as I planned to hike to more places. But my period came, and I was really weak, with cold and flu and sore throat. I did however managed to complete 2 of my originally planned hikes, so I think it's pretty good. Considering I am NOT  a hiker.

So on day 1, I was alone and I just shopped and bought so many things, but really happy with this pair of cools heels for only 50HKD which comes to about less than $9SGD. Great!!! Really covered a lot of places on my own, walking everywhere. Plus I walk pretty fast.

Day 2, Nic came and we went to some places.

Day 3, we rested today as well, just going to places and chilling. Think we went to Stanley. Here's some pics.

 At night, we went to a hostel in Nong Ping, so that we can wake up early to climb Lantau's peak. It's about SGD15 per night, but……. let's just say you get what you pay for haha. Not very clean, but I guess we only needed to sleep right.

Day 4, we woke at 3 and ate and set off for our climb. It wasn't as tiring as bluff knoll in perth. Took about an hour and a half. I think it's pretty decent, given I haven't exercised. We reached the top and froze for an hour and a half, because the sunrise is at 7 am!!!! It's seriously the coldest I've ever been in my whole life, with the merciless brutal chilling winds!!! It's horrible. Worse than the climb up. HORRIBLE. But here's what I was rewarded with:

Yup. Really tired, headed back and crashed.
Next day went to saikung to take on the maclehose trail. LOL we nearly got lost and had to spend the night lost but thank God we met other hikers who brought us out. Amazing. But… here are more amazing views:

Who would have thought, there'd be such views in hk! I always thought hk is like singapore, with only cities and cities and buildings and food and shopping. but trekking/hiking?! and there are more amazing sighs. check out hikehongkong.bs if you're interested. Really great blog i find. 

Also, really did not manage to keep up with my reflections for XWO, but I did manage to keep up with XWO. Genesis is really interesting, and amazing, and there's so much more to it, if we actually took time to analyse the characters in depth. Amazing people of faith, with Abraham, aka Father of faith or smth like that, Isaac, Jacob aka Isarael, Joseph etc. I find that it gave me a clearer picture of what's going on, and now i know oh like this israel mentioned here is actually descendants of abraham jacob etc etc. good stuff.