Dragon's Got Back

Wrapping up Jenn's visit here in April, we decided to head to the great outdoors for some hiking.  While Hong Kong is full of sky scrapers and people, it's only minutes to get to the base of the big hills (maybe they meet the technical definition of a small mountain?) in the middle of the island. There is a variety of hiking trails and you can cross over to the south side of the island.  Now you know if I'm on the hike (Chandra here), it's probably not what hikers would deem a real hike, but I think it's still respectable.  The hike started with a walk through one of Hong Kong's hillside graveyards.

 
They are cement tombs with cement roofs and pillars over the top of them on big steps going up the hills.   The cemetery was interesting and there were nice views...

and we got plenty of it since we accidentally took a wrong turn, went left and should have gone right, so we had an hour of cemetery exploration before finally officially getting to the beginning of the trail.

While you're on the dragon's back, it just looked like hills to me, but I guess the view of it from elsewhere resembles a dragon's back (imagine that). We had good views half way up of Stanley (as featured in the previous Stanley Market post).

Nice, shady tree cover en route...

Finally at the top where we had great sea views and of the town called Shek O, which is really fun to say.  Maybe we should have tried to live in Shek O.

This beach is called Big Wave Bay and is the sufing spot on the island.

 At this point we were starving and so made our way down the other side of the hill to a road and caught a bus back into town.  We headed to Tim Ho Wan, the cheapest Michelin starred restaurant (supposedly), for the famed barbecue pork buns and a few other dumplings. Yum. Note, we didn't eat all of this ourselves, rather ordered extra to take home to the kids (didn't want you to think we were gluttons).

After the long day of hiking, we only briefly refueled at home before heading out for a walk through the nearby night market for some cheap shopping and dinner.

Thumbs up for delicious dessert (chocolate lava cake and mango pudding with pomelo and tapioca) at the end of a long day.  Thanks for visiting, Jenn!