Hiking to Hawaii

I feel really like that there are so many hiking trails in Hong Kong.  One any given hiking trail there's so much to see in terms of scenery or animals (butterflies and birds).The weather this weekend was perfect for hiking, it was sunny and around 16°C. So CharK and I decided to try one of the trails that is close to home--the Little Hawaii Trail which goes from Lam Tin to Po Lam.

Jackfruit trees grown in the wild--I wonder if our wetmarkt sells these? (Photo: CharK)

I was really surprised to see bananas grown in the backyard (Photo: CharK).

On this hike, we started using the mapmyhike app and it's fun to see the statistics of our exercise. Between our photo taking and wandering around Lam Tin Park, it took about 2.5hours to cover 8.11km. The best part of the App is the there's a voice notification whenever we veered off the path that we had originally inputted.

The reason why the trail is called Little Hawaii is because of this beautiful waterfall that use to be the central feature of this former "resort". Surprisingly there's quite a bit of water that flows down and the drop starts off from quite high up.

One of the coolest waterfalls I've seen on a hike here (Photo: CharK)

A broken dam at the top of the waterfall (Photo: CharK)

The hike itself wasn't too difficult but the pathway is more rocky than I had imagined. But along the way the path goes through this village area where there are lots of 3-storey homes. It seems like kind of a pain to live up here because the roads are quite narrow and difficult to park cars even on the side of the road. And most people called taxis to dropped them off at the entrance of the village.

Village farm area off in the top right (Photo: CharK)

This hike goes through a variety of neighborhoods and we even pass by this open area that's been sectioned off in to a 10+ plots to grow vegetables. So even in the hills we can see many signs of modern life including the electrical towers and people living.

Overlooking the beautiful Lohas Park

We walked "backwards", ending our trip in Lam Tin Park, from most people. This worked out because the park is actually built on the mountain side and has a tons of stairs to walk down before making to the actual Lam Tin area. So going this way actually seemed less tiring at the end.