From the Luk Wu Plateau downwards towards Chek Keng (Photo-essay)

The first time I went along the Luk Wu Country Trail, my then regular hiking companion came across a sign post pointing out that one could get down to Chek Keng from the plateau.  Right there and then, I resolved to try out that route some time -- and I finally did so one sunny spring day with two other hiking buddies.

Looking back, I wonder whether I'd be so bent on going along this trail if I had realized that it involved such a steep descent along an unpaved trail where one ended up slipping and sliding down quite a bit.  But now that I've done it, I have no regrets -- and for more than one reason, I can safely say that this particular hike actually was one of those I found more memorable than most... :)

  The Luk Wu Country Trail is one of those that begins

with one having to go up a challenging number of steps

Happily, it also has sections of relatively level 

as well as unpaved path

 The kind of colorful wild flowers that are nice

visual additions to one's hiking experience :)

 The trail cuts across a stream area that is really pleasant

when hordes of other hikers don't decide to break there

for a time -- as I've sometimes have found to be the case!

 This is one of those waterfalls that appears to be seasonal 

-- in that the first time I was up on the plateau, during a 

drier time of the year, I didn't notice its existence! :O

This lizard I definitely did not see the first time

I was up on Luk Wu Plateau!

On the rugged, unpaved trail leading down to Chek Keng

The kind of rock pool that'd be tempting to go for a dip in

-- if not for it being not that easy to get to!

To be continued in the form of one more photo-essay...