Busy week!! part 2

Crowded in the streets!
Relaxed monkey dude - we got pretty close to this one!

Friday - Monkey Mountain and Hong Kong World Carneval – Tom and I went to Monkey Mountain which lies half an hour from Sha Tin with bus. People say it is a great mountain trail as well, but we didn´t have the time or the equipment to go on a long hike this day. We just wanted to see the monkeys – and boy, did we not only see them - we were surrounded by them!! They were actually quite scary some of them, we accidentally came in between a mother and an infant and it screamed at us!! So we held close together and try not to look at them, walk towards them, stop or anything else that might provoke them. Plastic bags are the worst thing you can have with you, and luckily we knew that otherwise they come running towards you thinking you might feed them and they start pulling your clothes and stuff.. They´re only small macaques, but still.. Check out the two different macaque species that live in HK here and here. After a quick stop at KFC in Sha Tin we headed straight for the fair that is in town now at Admiralty – called the Hong Kong World Carnival. We had looked so much forward to this – it is brightly lit and clearly visible on HK Island and had been calling for us to go there and have fun for so long!! First thing we queued for was called G-force – a giant windmill like thing with two wings that put you through 2G!! It was the coolest thing I have ever been in and the upside down and high rise view we got at the HK skyline was definitely worth the 1,5 hours we had to wait to go for a ride!!!

The carneval with the surrounding building as the backgorund scenery - notice how they are decorated to celebrate the New Year.