The statue of Sun Yat-Sen on the HKU campus. Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) was renowned for his revolutionary Western thinking during a time of transition in China.
I went on this excursion with an exchange student I met recently, who is a also hiking enthusiast. Pan Zhijian (Pan is the family name) is from Shandong province of mainland China and studies Electrical Engineering (called "Electronical Engineering" here). The title gives it away: his English name is Jason as well - a very cool guy from whom I'm learning much about college life in China.
Our excursion covered the west of Hong Kong Island. Starting off downhill after a cab ride to the Peak Gallery (a shopping center on top of a mountain), we walked the trail through Lung Fu Shan Country Park to the Pinewood Battery. Pinewood Battery is the ruins of a British outpost (with anti-aircraft guns) that defended Hong Kong from 1905-1913. This area of the country park was also the battleground for British and Japanese troops during the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong, which Japan won. The Pok Fu Lam Reservoir was further down the trail. We met a group of ornithologists with big cameras here and one agreed to show us a few pictures of local birds in stunning detail.
The University of Hong Kong campus was at the end of the trail coming out of the mountains. We conducted the usual college campus tour (see album) and rode a DOUBLE-DECKER BUS (haha I thought it was so awesome) back to the metro station, concluding a long productive day.
Album Links:
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