moments of Jose's life

Hiking at Luk Keng (2008-3-22)

Last Saturday morning, my "walking" (vs hiking) first time in Luk Keng, was a relax and enjoyable journey with a small group of fellowship crossover (1 from Enoch, 5 from Isaac, 3 from Elon).

It was cloudy and hazy, yet bright and warm. No rain was already a blessing, I thought.

We took a mini-bus from Fanling railway station to the starting point. To my surprise, it was indeed more like a village than a countryside. A decent public toilet and an old lady hawker selling breakfast to us. What's more, not long after we set off, there were 3 race cars (see the orange one in the picture) parked in front of the stalls.

Before we got ourselves enough warm up, there was another stall from which we could feed ourselves fish balls, sweet potato cakes and tofu pudding. Obviously, it was a keep-fat rather than a keep-fit tour.

Unlike previous hikings (well, this time was walking), we stopped more often and took more pictures. LuLu had got the strongest reason : testing his newly bought camera. Others also got the strong reason : taking some pictures while waiting for others to take pictures. Only that the sky became darker and darker.

See how close we were to the mainland China border at the opposite coast.

See the red and yellow mineral rocks.



See the shore covered with oyster shells.



See the young pineapples hanging on the tree.



See the park covered with yellow leaves.










Okay - I will return for another trip to see all these again under sunlight.

Walking for less than 2 hours, the rain started pouring, luckily after we were sheltered in a stall for lunch. Hanging on the wall were pictures of famous stars and senior government officials. From these we knew it was a popular location for shooting movies.

After lunch, while I was a bit worried about the long queuing time for minibus particularly in a rainy day, 2 arrived in cosecutive carrying all of us back to Fanling railway station. The driver told us, he arrived earlier than normal because he foresaw a larger crowd got stuck under the rain due to slower traffic and longer queue. Seldom did I met a driver so customer oriented and with such good business sense! To us, no doubt to say, it was another blessing among numerous others within the day ;-D

張貼者：Jo Fung @ 晚上11:49