From Lin Fa Shan down to Tsuen Wan (photo-essay)

For those who wondered: I'm okay, thanks. It's just that I was busier than usual this past weekend -- having a full day of work on Saturday, among other things -- as well as was away from Hong Kong between Friday and most of yesterday. And then when I got back yesterday, I was so tired that I called it a day several hours earlier than usual; so delayed putting up a new blog entry today...

But now I'm back on line and blogging again... so here's putting up another photo-essay that covers the hike I went on that took me from the Twisk Management Centre to Lin Fa Shan... and further along via the Yuen Tuen Ancient Trail down to Ha Fa Shan, from where my regular hiking companion and I descended a large number of stairs to Allway Gardens, one of Tsuen Wan's earliest and largest private housing estates.

Alternatively put: this hike through Tai Lam Country Park ended on the edge of a super busy market town -- conveniently all right yet posing a shock of sorts to the psyche by way of hammering home that one really wasn't all that far away from crowds of humanity after all even though it might have felt that way for much of the afternoon's excursion! ;b

As one of these signs shows, the ruins of the
abandoned school at Lin Fa Shan are just around
2 1/2 kilometers away from the outskirts of Tsuen Wan...

...yet in this hilly countryside, one also would be
right in presuming that there are acres of
uninhabited countryside nearby and about the area

Admittedly, the views from Shek Lung Kong could have been
clearer when we visited but, if truth be told, it still was
pretty splendid -- seeing as it was one of those days where
the human eye could see more than the camera capture well


An interesting looking rock that comes complete
with what looks like an identifying marker

Compare this photo with this one taken on a hot
-- but way clearer -- summer's day

The flag of the People's Republic of China
flies proudly at the top of a nearby hill

View of Tsuen Wan from near one edge of Tai Lam Country Park

As someone kindly wrote down at the bottom of the
flight of stairs leading from Allway Gardens up to near
the official start of the Yuen Tsuen Country Trail, there are
578 steps to climb to get up there -- and for the record,
I have ascended as well as descended those 578 steps! :)