Hiking in HK

Is it possible, you may ask, for a metropolis like Hong Kong to have hiking trails? Well, in the summer, it is probably too hot and humid to do any, but there are several trails in HK...... In fact, there is a book on the activity.....lol......

Now these are pretty rough trails, not mountain bike-able.., but during the spring, fall and 'winter' here, it is a good time to 'take a hike'......

I'll let the pictures I took on a recent hike, up from Happy Valley, to the Violet Hill Trail, which essentially runs around the south side of the island down to Repulse Bay... I had a bad cold today and was a little dizzy ... and believe me, this is not a trail to take if one is dizzy......lol... it is narrow and treacherous, but it was a perfect, almost smog free Sunday.. and what better way than .... to take a hike.....

Repulse Bay in view....

This is a wider part of the trail!

The Tin Hau (another one?) Temple on Repulse Bay...

This is where the dragon drives down the southern mountainside of the island...

And this is where the architects have accommodated the dragon's path out to sea.......