Showing posts with label south lantau country trail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south lantau country trail. Show all posts

Oct 29, 2009

south lantau country trail again!

D & I went for a hike yesterday morning. We chose the lovely South Lantau Country Trail again. We hiked this trail in July before. It was a pretty easy hike, good for warming up our muscle prior to any serious hikes next month. This time round, we spent quite a bit of time foraging for plants that I needed to make terrariums with ... there was a variety of ferns...and some other plants which I couldn't put a name on ... so I took home ferns, ferns and ferns! Guess I'll have an all ferns terrarium! I managed to use the ferns gathered to make 7 terrariums with recycled glass jars! Now I have mini terrariums all over my house!!! This is just the trial phase, as I do not have all the materials needed to make a complete terrarium, I still lack activated charcoal and sphagnum moss .... I'll probably get some on my next trip downtown.
Aside from gathering the plants, D & I did some trail-running to make up for lost time .. it was a new experience for us , we had to focus on the rocky uneven dirt path every step of the way in order to avoid spraining our ankles or even tripping on the rocks and stones. I find trail running very satisfying albeit the risk involved. We might be doing it again this weekend......till then... (photos on side bar)

Jul 8, 2009

lovely trail! South Lantau Country Trail

overlooking Chi Ma Wan peninsular

D & I hiked the South Lantau Country Trail this morning, from Pak Kung Au to Nam Shan, 7km in distance with official time of 2 1/4 hours, but it took us a total of 3 hours which included breaks and lots of photo-taking. It was such an enjoyable trip and the weather was great! Thankyou Lord! The trail crossed many streams and waterfalls. The waterfalls are simply lovely, and there are quite a number of them! What a pleasant surprise indeed! For a moment I thought I was stream-trekking! haha I reckoned this is a good trail for beginners to train for stream trekking! The paths are uneven dirt road with stones and rocks, which required some skills to negotiate. Proper footwear is highly recommended (we wore our trekking boots). The trail has a very back to nature feel, no proper cement road in sight and it was also full of spiders and webs....Perfecto! : ) I love it (not the spiders though) ! This is a trail that I wouldn't mind hiking again in the future if I wanted something simple, natural and with lovely waterfalls. A thumbs up for today's hike!