Monday, September 17, 2012
Panhuber Christian, from University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
September 8, 2012 (Saturday)
After arriving in Hong Kong for nearly one and a half weeks, my friends and I decided that we should live the city for
the first time. Going to the beach seemed a great idea to experience Hong Kong’s
beautiful nature. Therefore we took
the ferry from Central all
the way to Lamma Island as we have been told that the beach
there was beautiful.
Being spontaneous, we ended up doing
more hiking than swimming as we had planned. I
would say the highlight of the day was when we walked through woods full of spiders. We had fun watching my friend, who was
not particularly fond of spiders, being scared to death. Luckily,
we finally managed to find the beach and enjoy the sea for the first time in Hong
Kong.
September 9, 2012 (Sunday)
On Sunday we decided to visit the beach again, this time to the Sai Kung Beach. After taking diverse means of transport and a 40 min walk which was not tough at all thanks to
the beautiful landscape along the way, we finally arrived.A couple of meters away from the beach, we found what we were actually looking for: A small waterfall with a narrow but deep pond suitable for some cliff diving. Having survived a couple of jumps from the cliff, we decided to head home. Only to find that there were amazingly long queues at the bus station. After a long ride, we were finally back to civilization.
September 12, 2012 (Wednesday)
Monday to Wednesday are
the days in which my lectures are concentrated. Today, all my courses officially
started and so I was busy with
attending
different classes, out of which the most challenging had to be Mandarin.
September 13, 2012 (Thursday)
As Hong Kong is a really interesting city and there is so much to see, my
friends and I took every chance to explore the city. Today, we decided to do a
bit of sightseeing in Hong Kong
Island near Central. Following the route suggested in a travel-guide book, we
passed by temples, museums, parks and used the Central-Mid-levels escalator which is supposed to be the longest outdoor
covered escalator system in the world (pretty long title, isn't it?). The escalator brought us all the way
uphill from Central to the Mid-levels without having to take a lot of stairs.One of the highlights of the tour was Hong Kong park, a beautiful park surrounded by skyscrapers (of course) with a waterfall and artificial caves.
September 14, 2012
After doing a bit of research on the internet, we decided to visit the Tsin Shan monastery in the New Territories today. Equipped with a screenshot of Google Maps, we were pretty confident of finding our way
there.
The maps were more difficult to read than expected, so instead we chose to follow our gut instincts and chose the path that we believed would
lead us to our destination. Our instincts were proven to be wrong, as
after searching for an hour we still saw no sign of the monastery. That’s when we
resorted to the old-school method -
using a compass, and found out that we went in the exact opposite direction. Those who have actually been following my blog may have recognized that my sense of
orientation is… virtually non-existent. That left us with no choice but to head all the way back, to the
other end of the path which thank
god led up to the right direction.
Although, after
climbing a steep road uphill, we
found out that the monastery had already closed half an hour ago.
Labels: 2012/2013 Semester A
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