oh hi there! 
i’ve been meaning to get a post up in the past week, but haven’t had the chance until today!
I arrived in hong kong almost a week ago and have been bopping around town mostly visiting family & friends. I even made a visit to a chinese herbal doctor. It was my first experience and quite interesting. The doctor simply took my pulse on both hands and had me stick out my tongue and already had my diagnosis ready. I didn’t really have any problems, but was still prescribed some herbs to keep me healthy.
Now I have a weeks worth of herbal medicine to drink. And it’s not very tasty…
Yesterday my cousin and I decided to make it an active day and tackled one of the many trails available here.
We took the MTR (subway) to Shau Kei Wan where we hopped on bus number 9 and were dropped off right at the beginning of the trail.
And off we went on our hike…
the beginning 30-40 mins was mainly rainforest-y and shaded
it reminded me a lot of the trails in hawaii.
peaking over the right side were endless mountains and greens.
i almost felt like I was no longer in Hong Kong!…until we heard a bus zoom by 
soon enough we came to a fork which led the way to the dragon’s back
at this point i was still wondering why this trail was called dragon’s back since it looked nothing like one.
We climbed uphill for a while…
and the views began to appear.
pretty, yes?
we were faked out a couple times thinking we had reached the peak to only get up there and see that there was more
and then I understood why it’s called dragon’s back.
See it???
Lot’s of ups.
I was feelin it in my calves.
good workout for the glutes too.
It was kind of crazy to see how far we had walked (all the way from behind the arrow).
Almost to the top!
one more hill and we made it to the highest point!
there was a nice golf courses and pretty beaches down below.
oh how glorious it would have been to jump in the ocean at that point. we were quite hot.
a 360 view.
It definitely didn’t feel like we were in Hong Kong once we were up at the top.
There was a mini beach town below that looked more european than asian.
{see that house there on the bottom right of the photo?…SO huge! bet it has some amaze views!}
a few more snaps and we trekked on.
an hour and a half total…
we made it to the end!
We caught the mini bus back down to the mtr station (abt a 10 min ride) and headed towards causeway bay for something cold and yummy.
I chose the green tea shaved ice.
This kind of shaved ice has the flavor infused into the ice and is flaky and soft.
Imagine sweet pillows of green tea-flavored fluff sitting in a pool of condensed/evaporated milk, red bean, jellies, and mochi balls.
Delish ending to a fun hike 
hopefully more adventures to come later!
{plus i still need to post my mochi recipe!}
later gators