Victoria
Peak
 Victoria
Peak, imposingly towering in the west of
Hong Kong Island, is the highest peak in
this island and the most enduring tourist
attraction in Hong Kong, featuring the city's
oldest mode of transport, the 112-year old
Peak Tram and Hong Kong's most unusual building
and icon, Peak Tower.
The top of the peak is 1,805
feet above sea level. In the early period
of colonial rule, Victoria Peak was open
to the people of upper strata of society
only and normal people were forbidden to
visit the peak unless getting a special
permission from the governor of Hong Kong.
Today, Victoria Peak has already become
a scenic spot noted all over the world.
Ascending the peak enables you to experience
the dazzling panorama of Hong Kong Island,
the harbor, Kowloon and the hills beyond.
What's more, the peak offers
visitors a multitude of fantastic entertainment,
dining and shopping options. The Peak Galleria
shopping mall and the Peak Tower have a
wide selection of restaurants and boutiques
selling souvenirs, clothes, and gifts.
Peak Tram
The best way to get to the top
is via the Peak Tram, a funicular railway
that carves a steep 373-metre (about 1224
feet) swathe up the lush mountainside. It
carried its first passengers in 1888 and
has, over the last century, served as one
of the city's most vital transport links.
The track itself is 1400 meters (4592 feet)
long and is the shortest yet most scenic
route to the Peak taking approximately 7
minutes. The steepest gradient of the tram
track, which is at May Road, is 27 degrees
to the horizon. The Peak Tram is quick and
safe, it is environmentally friendly due
to its microprocessor-controlled electric
drive system. The tram is computer-controlled
with an automatic system check on all safety
devices before its journey begins.
The Peak Tram runs every day,
including Sundays and public holidays, between
7:00am and midnight. The tram departs every
15 minutes.
Peak Tower
 As
the Peak Tram pulls up into its final destination
one could enter directly into the Peak Tower.
Regarded as the icon of Hong Kong, the striking
and unusual Peak Tower sits at an elevation
of over 396 meters (about 1299 feet) overlooking
the spectacular Victoria Harbor, Kowloon
and the New Territories. Commissioned in
1993 and completed in May of 1997, the tower
serves as a center of combining catering
and recreation, which contains dining hall,
wonder hall and some of the best entertainment
attractions in Hong Kong. Among them, the
most special is the wonder hall which is
called "Believe it or not". It
is the chain museum unique in the world,
which was constructed by Robert L. Ripley
in 1930. Inside the hall there exhibited
the adventurous events experienced by Ripley,
primitive forest, beauty taking sun bath,
frenzied car, turning tunnel, shark aquarium,
ultimate cruel torture, marvelous spectacles
of human race and animals, complete works
of tongue twister and mass media fun station
etc.
If you have enough time, you
may go around the Harlech Road and the Lugard
Road on both sides of the peak, which is
the best spot to look down at both shores
of Victoria Harbor, Kowloon Peninsula and
even the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir and Island
district on the southern part of Hong Kong.
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