This past Saturday, hundreds of us exchange students piled into buses and rode about an hour and a half to Stanley, a town in the southern part of Hong Kong Island. Our bus tour guide, Joe, told us that Hong Kong used to be a very popular place for pirates. #piratesabroad. (Check out the pirate queen, Cheng I Sao.) There, we walked through Stanley Market (it was a lot less crowded than the Temple Street Night Market) and explored the rocky part of the beach. After Stanley, we made a stop at Lion’s Pavilion, where we got a great, but cloudy view of Victoria Gap. The Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui was next, which is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon Station.
the rocks at Stanley 
the view from Lion’s Pavilion 
The Clock Tower 
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