The Chronicles of a Reckless Traveler

Hong Kong Part V: The Final Part (I promise) Okay, so at the end of the last posts, my friends and I decided to go to a bar crawl so we woke up the next day a little hung over. We had a ton of fun and made lots of new friends (shout out to Belle in Thailand!) but spent much of Friday recovering.  But I managed to get some afternoon tea with some weird peach pudding dessert and explore a bit more of the island in the process.  Tea time! My fave bill of all time We saw the light show that night!  The next morning, we went to the Big Buddha. It took about 30 long, scary minutes by bus but it was well worth it.  So. Many. Stairs. The best views of any place in HK. It is so high, it makes the town look like a diorama.  Me being hot in terms of temperature and in terms of my face. Buddhist Monastery with hella incense.   BEEEEEADS OF JAAAAADE FOR BEA...

Hong Kong Part IV The next day, we went to Hong Kong Park and found this super cute (and super free!) Tea Museum which was really pretty. This pic doesn't do them justice. Seriously bigger than my head. Felt like I was in Divergent for a sec. Felt like I was in Jurassic Park III for a sec when they're in the cage with the Pteranodon, god was such a good movie, you should totally watch it.  Oh yeah, but it was actually a bird sanctuary feat. birds like this one: Who clearly was pissed about something. And this one who was a little special. These pics weren't zoomed in at all, he was literally right next to me. But if you look at his head, he obviously has had some brain damage. My area of town <3  So it was a pretty chill day. 

Hong Kong Part III The next day we woke up sore and a little sunburnt, but the museums in Hong Kong were free so we got a chance to go to the Hong Kong History Museum and the Hong Kong Science Museum.  Both were so well organized and interesting!! The history museum started all the way before the city was developed (when it was still a jungle) and went all the way up to modern times and all of the history was walk through which meant that if you were learning about certain types of towns or jungles or dynasties, then they have a replica of what that would have looked like that you could walk though. (This was especially cool for the time period when the British took over HK and when the Japanese invaded for a few years.) I had no idea HK's history was so interesting! My history-loving nerd family would have loved it.  They had a replica of a Chinese Opera House you could walk through. I'm not saying Phantom of the Opera wasn't scary, but I a...