Wild About Hong Kong - hiking, wildlife, conservation and more
Wild About Hong Kong - hiking, wildlife, conservation and more
The Chi Ma Wan Country Trail loops within the Chi Ma Wan Peninsula, southeast Lantau. According to trail info from the AFCD, walking the full circuit could take around 8hrs. Add time needed to reach the start and end point…
The Silver Mine Waterfall is among the best and most easily reached Hong Kong waterfalls.
Nei Lak Shan Country Trail circuits Nei Lak Shan, above Ngong Ping and the Big Buddha.
Two maps highlighting the beauty of Lantau Island, and potential projects - along with links to more info, including on great places to visit.
Tai O is a good village to explore, on the west coast of Lantau.
There's a pleasant stroll from Chi Ma Wan (芝麻灣) pier to Pui O (貝澳).
An alternative to the Concept Plan for Lantau - with proposed projects that may actually be sustainable.
19 groups including Hong Kong Outdoors showed "a rare show of unity", to produce a Joint Statement on Sustainable Development for Lantau.
Here is the plan for ark-eden, an immensely different development scenario for Lantau Island to that envisaged in the Concept Plan for Lantau; the originators are Neil McLaughlin, Paul Melsom, and Jenny Quinton. Instead of lots of concrete, there’s an…
Comments on the Concept Plan for Lantau (or "Concrete Plan for Lantau"?), submitted to the Lantau Development Task Force.
The Concept Plan for Lantau has an extensive list of proposed projects that would transform Lantau.
My overriding impression is: THERE IS NO PLAN! Instead, a mishmash of various projects that are broadly based on the strategy to have development on north Lantau.
Lung Tsai Ng Yuen (龍仔悟園) is a Chinese landscaped garden in southwest Lantau.
My farourite Hong Kong bus ride is east from Mui Wo to Ngong Ping, heading along the south coast of Lantau Island, then up into the hills. Though Hong Kong has some fine bus routes into and wholly within the…
Pui O in southeast Lantau has buffaloes, a good beach, and fine scenery.
Community Based Tourism is broadly described as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of local people.”
Ferry companies serving islands in Hong Kong. (And of course there’s the Star Ferry Company, though that mainly shuttles between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. Plus the Discovery Bay Transportation Services routes serving the suburb across the water, Discovery Bay…