Visit to "The Victoria Peak"

Finally, we made it to the Victoria Peak. Couple of attempts, to visit this most attractive place (my view) in Hong Kong, had failed.

The best way to start off is "The Tram". Its a small jolly ride,  climbing a mountain at around 40 degrees is really a unique experience. Couple of chances you might get to watch the city being in the Tram, but are quite enjoyable. The onward trip was exciting, guess the return trip would be more thrilling.

Everything didn't go well. The queue to buy the tickets was long to make us little tired. Had not realized, there is no queue for people taking the Madame Tussauds tickets. Once we got the tickets, there was little crowd stopping us getting into the Tram. A little struggle with sleeping Chinni and the baby trolley, got hold of seats to sit, within minutes the journey started.

Shops with all girl material treated us. Obviously they are the one who spend more, have to attract them. Few steps further Jackie Chan was inviting us to enter Madame Tussaud's museum. Not really, his wax clone, Welcome to the wax world!!! Unfortunately, nobody is allowed to click Jackie with their own cameras. We crushed Jackie in between, a guy captured the scene and asked us to collect the snap at the exit. Three floors were categorized nicely, the most we enjoyed was posing besides actor (myself beside actress, Nanda beside an actor) and clicking, as viewed in the slideshow.

Chinni had just woken, was asking herself "where am I?", "who is the lady pappa is standing beside and ammi is clicking?", "why is ammi, with a smiling face, standing with that guy ?". Little did she know  she wouldn't do it with real objects! She just pretended to sleep until we exited from the museum.

At the exit, the snap with Jackie flashed on a big screen, I promptly said no to buy it, $100 ? .... nah! I was more happy to click Mahatma Gandhi free of cost. But truely, some wax models were close to realistic like the Nicolas Cage's, Brangelina's Gandhi's Johnny Depp's ..........

Sun had a long day, was ready to set down. I was getting eager as we were about to witness the beautiful view of Hong Kong from 1300 feet above sea level. The lights had started to glow when the sun went down. The Sky Terrace was jam packed, I was very disappointed, there wasn't enough space to move around and capture HK illuminated with different colored lights. I could not even click the beautiful view and Chinni, sadness prevailed for some time.

We decided to return after taking couple of snaps. Chinni had already started troubling. She is good when let to walk by herself. Another trouble came in picture when the queue to tram for the return journey was as long as a Chinese dragon. Taxi was the best pick, that's why the guess.

Message of the blog:  Visit all the important places, you wish to, before marriage or before having a baby!