I am an indoor person. Exercise – and the outdoors really – are not my favorite things. I would go out for a run every so often, just to keep a certain level of fitness. But I would much rather run around a city in a video game, than do so for real. That all got turned upside down last month. It all started when a friend sent this message into a group I was in:

Urban. Sleek. Metropolitan. These are the words that often come to mind whenever we think of Hong Kong. But that is only one of this city’s many faces. Hong Kong is also home to picturesque landscapes, beautiful beaches, and unbridled nature to those willing to seek them out. Admittedly, despite my years here, this was a side of Hong Kong that I’ve only recently been acquainted with. It was introduced to me by my fellow Shapers from the Global Shapers Community Hong Kong hub .