Hike: The Peak to South Horizons

I had no idea why I suddenly came up with the idea to go hiking. It was a rather random idea and I just wanted to splurge and expend some of my energy. Perhaps it was also knowing about the endorphin high after too. It was Friday night and I decided to join a meet up group using the power of the world wide web. I then noticed that they were doing a hike on Saturday. Totally perfect timing. A day off and I can go explore some of Hong Kong!

View of Victoria Harbour - It's kinda smoggy.

So I meet up with 30-40 complete strangers and we went on this hike. Yes a bit random but it turned out alright, it was an opportunity to meet new people and do some networking. I really didn't know what to expect other than the fact that we were going to meet up in Central and bus up to the Peak and hike down to some random part of the island. I figured out that Tin Wan was just a small area close to Aberdeen. Learned something new so what the heck.

South Horizons

The hike was an easy one - better be phrased as more of a social event then intense hiking. But by no means was it not tiring. Up and down the paved roads of hiking trail we went. A cool breeze flew by us once in a while and it was refreshing! The solitude from the urbanized city was also a relief, with the exception of this oddly loud whirring noises from the Queen Mary Hospital for 10 minutes.

Another thing I learned on my 4 hour trip was that apparently there is a horse academy or what not ran by the Jockey Club. They have lessons or what not with old racing horses, and part of the trail were horse trails. An interesting thing to learn and a reflection of the past when I once galloped through the fields. I miss though times that lasted over several years. : (

Aberdeen Harbour taken from Ap Lei Chau Bridge

Once arriving at Tin Wan, I decided to add a couple kilometers to my hike. Perhaps it wasn't the brightest idea already walking 12 km. But what the heck, I walked home. Other than that absurdly bad smelling of burning diesel by the harbour it's a-ok. I wasn't surprised to see some random floating plastic bags in the harbour - but it just makes you think of all the crap people chuck into our waters… But that's another topic for later.

Sore as heck but oh wells it was fun meeting new people!