D & I went for our planned hike (Nam Shan- SLCT-Double Dragon Stream-Sunset Peak-Pak Kung Au) yesterday morning, we took bus 3M to Nam Shan campsite. From there, we hiked an ascending small section of the South Lantau Country Trail to reach the mid-section of Double Dragon Stream. We intended to trek up the rest of the stream to Sunset Peak from this point, but it began to rain and furthermore, we couldn't find any clear indication pointing to the correct path up the stream. After about 45 mins of searching for any visual indication, we still couldn't find it, in the end we decided not to continue. We could have just explored and trekked up the stream, but taking the weather into consideration, we chose not to. We back-tracked all the way to our starting point (Nam Shan) to take the Lantau Trail stage 2 path to reach Sunset Peak @ 869m -Hongkong's third highest mountain instead. It was a steep ascend, after we had strenuously trudged our way up for about 3 1/2 distance post, we noticed that heavy fog has gathered at the peak above! We decided not to take the risk of getting wet and lost up in the mountain, so we back-tracked all the way to Nam Shan again!! From Nam Shan we took the old village path to Mui Wo (via Luk Tei Tong) for our lunch and finally took a bus home.
Looked like this was a 'back-tracking' to 'nowhere' kind of trip! hahaha... surprisingly, we were completely worned out after this trip!
beginning @ nam shan
