Hiking on Hong Kong island

I have Thursday afternoons off, so I decided to go for a quick hike on Hong Kong Island yesterday. The hardest part was actually finding the trail: I have yet to buy a hiking map of Hong Kong, so I was just following directions I found online. These were along the lines of "go to such-and-such station and then head upwards until you can't..." Needless to say, things weren't quite that simple! While I was looking for the trail, I did come across a couple of fairly cool sights though:

Here's the entrance to a Buddhist temple at the bottom of the hill I was supposed to be going up.

And here's a graveyard halfway up the hill...

And the waterworks right by the last set of stairs heading upwards... I have to say that the water was flowing down a lot faster than I was going up!

I did manage to find the trail at the end though:

And look back at the climb I had had to make

Yes, that's the cemetery again!

Unfortunately, just as I reached the ridge, the fog came down and reduced the visibility to about 20 m - plenty to walk along the trail, not so good for taking photos. I did manage to get one shot of the view over the bay at the southernmost part of the trail:

The air was still pretty hazy though, and it started to rain, so I didn't linger!

All in all a good trip though, and I'll probably go again when the weather is better. I'm also very glad to finally have needed my hiking boots: I was definitely feeling that it had been a waste to bring them.

That's all for now; have a nice weekend everybody! :-)