Last weekend we went hiking in Tai Tam Country Park. Before we left home, we consulted the Leisurely Hiking Guide and selected a Sunday walk. It started out very comfortably and although steep in places the pathways were very civilised and our route was full of families of all ages doing the same thing. We strolled. After an hour we reached the end of the path and bearing in mind this had been pitched in the book as a 3hr walk, I was somewhat surprised and not quite satisfied! I was expecting more...so we took a look at the park map and decided to take a different route back. Something a little more challenging. OK...something a lot more challenging, as it turned out! Challenging but fabulous! The return took about 3 hours I think...and it was a completely different terrain. The pathway was steep and rocky. At times it resembled a dry river bed more than a foot path which is pretty accurate actually given the weather here. A few months ago we would not have been doing this walk as our path would have been replaced by a river rushing down from the mountains, I have no doubt about that!
This particular day though it was dry, not a spot of rain in sight and all the young families seemed to have disappeared. It was a while before we met any other hikers. The views were stunning. It was a little hazy as is often seems to be here but this did not detract from the beauty of our surroundings.
Quite incredible to think that we took a 15 minute taxi ride from home to get to the start point for this walk.
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