At the beginning of the month, I posted a photo-essay showing how wet the Lung Mun (which translates into "Dragon Gate") Country Trail was when two friends and I hiked along it back in June. To be fair (and help balance things out a bit), here's going ahead and showing some beautiful and/or interesting scenic and close-up sights I saw in between -- and, in a couple of cases, after -- fording all those streams along the way... ;)
Can you get a good sense from this picture as to how quiet as well as green it was
out there in this part of Hong Kong?
View that includes the Yuen Yuen Institutewhich sbk and I visited a few years back
They may be shaped like flowers but they're actually fungi!
Definitely flowers -- and pretty too (but, alas, I don't know their names)! ;(
The power lines and towers and highway can't spoil the view as far as I'm concerned
A view of Lion Rockfrom a different angle then it's usually seen
-- i.e., from west of it
Our hike ended in the Shing Mun Reservoir areawhich is beautiful but is not a place I
want to visit all that often
Here are a few of my reasons for feeling that way-- yep, believe it or not, Shing Mun has
a monkey infestation problem! :S
4 comments:
What a shame about the monkeys, because that's a really beautiful place. I love your photos.
Hi Dragonstar --
Thanks for loving my photos -- and yeah, I've been told that the monkeys shouldn't be a problem if you are with a few people. But that news report that I linked sure makes things sound scary! :S
ytsl,
Another great photo essay. Peaceful green Hong Kong (who da thought it), flower fungi (crazy) and Yuen Yuen Institute looks a lot different from above. Thanks for the plug.
PS I very much dislike/avoid places where monkeys run free as they can be nasty when in groups.
Hi sbk --
Thanks -- and glad that my hiking photo essays *are* attracting comments (at least from you and dragonstar)! :)
Re the monkeys: the trouble is that some ignorant people feed them, so now the monkeys invariably think people = source of food.
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