D-133, freezing in Lantau

Today's exercice took place on Lantau, an island just off HK, where we went hiking with two other couples. Krusty is just back from Australia, and is leaving tomorrow for Paris, so we were very tempted to just stay at home and chill, but instead we went outside to get chilly.

It's the first day of the Chinese New Year holiday, so we thought it would be packed, but we hadn't taken into account the fact that it was FREEZING! The wind chill factor meant that we felt that we were back in Europe for a minute, but after a few steep sets of stairs, we soon warmed up.

We passed the amazing concrete walls that have been sprayed on to avoid landslide (which happen quiet often), small villages where the idea of the Hong Kong Island harbour seafront seems inexistent, a secluded beach with incredible sand formations that looked like cliffs, and a water catchment walk into which Krusty just HAD to find something naughty to do. And finally we discovered a hillside cemetary like none we had ever seen before - it seems that the ashes of ancestors have been placed in large pots on which a stone holds paper money offering from flying away. Fascinating.

It was cold but it was lovely, and I'm glad our friends managed to convince us to leave the DVD player behind and actually experience the outside world.