The flight from London to HK was pretty nice. Air New Zealand had decent food, free wine, and a good selection of movies including travel documentaries about various places in China. I'm staying with my good friend from RPI, John Britton here in HK. He's here for 6+ months studying Chinese at CUHK, before going back to RPI to finish up and be done with school.
This stick bug doesn't blend in so well on a metal pole.
We took a 1.5 hr ferry ride from the school to Tai Wai. After that, it was about an hour hike over the mountain to get to a great beach. It's extremely hot and humid here, and I don't think I've ever been so sweaty in my life. It was such a relief to dive into the water.
Its pretty amazing how HK goes from extremely dense urban metropolis to green nature with almost no transition. However, most of the remaining nature is too mountainous to cost effectively build there.
This spider's body is as big as one of my fingers. I made sure to let Sven, the tallest guy in the hiking group walk in front of me so I wouldn't end up with a face full of web and one of these.
The ferry back wasn't for another hour, and this woman in a boat started shouting at us in cantonese. Turns out she was running a water taxi so we got a quick ride back to civilization and took a bus the rest of the way back.
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