Places and Trails across Hong Kong
Hiking a South Lamma Circuit – akin to far-flung New Territories
While Sok Kwu Wan is familiar as a coastal village dominated by seafood restaurants, it’s also a good starting place for an easy hike to explore the relatively little visited, wild south of Lamma – which is like a corner of the far-flung New Territories. If you start the hike…
Ma On Shan – Ascent of Saddleback Mountain
Soaring above the new town that bears its name, Ma On Shan – Horse Saddle Mountain – is among Hong Kong’s most distinctive and highest peaks. And while also near the expanding Sai Kung town, it makes for outstanding hiking through majestic landscapes that in places seem remote from urban areas.…
Hong Kong’s Wonderful Wildlife
Over 500 species of birds have been recorded in Hong Kong, which is around five percent of all the world’s bird species – a remarkable figure that partly reflects the sub-tropical climate, setting on the south China coast, and the variety of habitats: places for wildlife including birds.…
If you visit the Hong Kong countryside on the edge of the city nowadays, you might come across something that would have seemed remarkable 12 years ago, as the previous Year of the Pig began: a wild boar, or even family of wild boar, ambling along the trail…
Hong Kong conservation
Every year, Hong Kong’s hillsides are afflicted by fires, especially in late autumn and winter. Hong Kong’s Easter/Ching Ming holiday, at the beginning of April [1999], coincided with a spell of fine, clear weather: conditions that should have been ideal for hiking. But a ridge walk in the…
By Charles Frew: Perhaps one other alternative we haven’t considered is actually banning marine users from the favoured feeding areas of Great White Sharks. Read all about this story by going to the following link (a similar article appeared in the South China Morning Post): Five-fold rise in shark…
An alternative to the Concept Plan for Lantau published by the government in November 2005- with proposed projects that may actually be sustainable. After strongly criticising the Concept Plan for Lantau, from the Lantau Development Task Force (see, for instance, HK Outdoors response to the plan, under Lantau…