Monkey Mountain, Nan Lian Garden, Chi Lin Nunnery & Kwun Tong

On Wednesday, Calvin had the afternoon off, so we went off on another adventure and headed first to monkey mountain. We saw this statue just off the road and knew we were in the right place, so we hopped off the bus just in time. I took a picture just in case this was the only monkey we saw.

We started walking down the trail and I saw these beautiful butterflies! There were so many on these flowering bushes.

As I was standing there, trying to catch some good shots of the butterflies, monkeys started coming out from under the bush right where we were standing and walking out onto the road right there by us! Camden was finishing a bun we had purchased on our way there and these monkeys were eyeing it! Calvin hurried and put it in his mouth to keep the monkeys away.

You can see on the left there, those are the bushes I was taking pictures of and there are the monkeys right where they were coming out.

We kept walking down the trail to this reservoir. We got some good pictures that we thought Calvin's dad would like. He works with water, reservoirs, dams, and other water related things.

On the one side, the water wasn't very far down, but on the other side, the dam was huge! The water must have been pretty deep!

This looked just like a giant ruler.

We then walked back up the trail toward the monkeys and stopped for a picture in this monkey trap. Calvin checked really well before we walked inside to make sure we wouldn't be trapped! He has a picture of when he was on his mission of the missionaries in a trap like this.

The little baby monkeys were so cute!

After monkey mountain, we got back on a bus and then onto the MTR and got off at Diamond Hill. We walked over to the Nan Lian Gardens, which are part of the Buddhist Chi Lin Nunnery.

Look for the frogs in the right hand corner.

Bonzai trees!

Everything was so beautiful!

After visiting the gardens and nunnery, we rode a bus over to an area where Calvin served on his mission. We visited Brother Ng who Calvin worked with. He has had quite an interesting life! It was neat to meet someone Calvin had told me about.

This is where Calvin lived for almost 6 months! Those windows in the middle with the bars are the windows to the apartment he lived in. It is very close to the church building.

We then walked down to one of Calvin's favorite street markets and got the most amazing treat ever! It is called gaak jai behng (or I think it sounds like got zhi bang). It is this warm waffle with peanut butter, butter, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk spread inside and folded in half. It is absolutely amazing!!

We stopped and got some dinner, then headed back home! We rode a bus then took the star ferry across the harbor, then got on our mini bus #3 that took us back up the hill to our dorms! It was a fun day!