HK day 2

Quite a late start at around noon from my place which is near Sheung Wang metro station, venturing towards the Lin Heung tea house. Imagine a crowded place with 98% Chinese people, where you first need to fight for a chair and then for food; it was brilliant - next time I will attempt to order a menu after I managed the infighting at the dim sum trolleys quite good after a while this time...

Then took the escalator up Soho, checking out some side streets as well as Man Mo temple on Hollywood street, strange mix between temple and kiosk.. - afterwards got myself two (probably overpriced) green jade dragons in Lascar row and continued the escalator uphill.

While the dragonshop sales person wanted to discourage me from climbing to the peak I luckily met two Germans at the top of the Soho escalator who put forward a strong recommandation to go ahead - and it was well worth it, leaving the skyscrapers behind and entering real and quiet jungle until arriving at the peak tower crowded with tourists again. Hypothesis: all great cities have a great house mountain and a larger amount of water nearby, this would include Hong Kong, Vancouver and Zurich (and to the extent it is a "city": Bergen), putting NY and London a bit on the sidelines ..

After enjoying the peak views I went back via Bus (15), finding out that it was running to the "other" star ferry terminal, and hence took the tram back to my place, feels a bit like "back to the future" when riding an ancient doubledecker tram between blinking skyscrapers, quite an experience in itself...