Victoria Peak on the Hong Kong Trip
The work end of this Hong Kong trip is behind me — the GitHub keynote on a Ping An Cloud stage, all orange on black, 87,000 enterprise customers up on the screen in characters I couldn't read — so the last stretch of the trip belonged to Victoria Peak.
The queue at the tram station wound back past the Hard Rock ads, and the red car rolled in already loaded from the run down. Worth it to get up there: the Peak is the highest point on the island at 552 metres, and the Lions Pavilion moon gate frames Victoria Harbour and Kowloon, which today meant a wall of grey haze with towers dissolving into it. People stood four deep at the railing anyway.
From there the Peak Circle Walk, about 3.5 kilometres, flat and paved the whole way around the summit, part of the same network the Hong Kong Trail starts from. The city side gives you the skyline over the shoulder; the far side goes green and closes in until the only open water is a gap in the trees with a single red freighter sitting in it.
