Wednesday late evening Jojo and me went to Maui Wo at Lantau island by MTR and bus. As she had a late shift the next day we decided to do some hiking. We started at the ferry pier of Maui Wo at about 23:30 o’clock. It was still very warm, even there was a thunderstorm some hours ago. We followed the Lantau Trail uphill. This was not hard at all, even during the night. At some small creeks we passed, we got some refreshment. Near the Lantau Mountain Camp, some old abandoned huts, we left the main track and headed to the sunset peak. Yes even as it was dark, as we wanted to have a look at the sunrise. Now the track was hidden by some high grass, but with the headlight we were able to hike up the peak in the darkness. Near the peak we pitched up the tent. Shortly before we wanted to sleep, we heard some animal in the high grass coming up, not sure if it was a wild pig or dog. Nevertheless, both would be bad. But with the strong headlight and pipe we could it scared off.
Unfortunately, the clouds raised higher during the night, and we were not able to see the sunrise. After that short night we hiked down to the Pak Kung Au pass. Jojo took a bus back to the MTR station Tung Chung, whereas I headed on to the Lantau peak. The way up was not difficult at all. On top of the mountain I saw the newly built bridge to Macau and the Big Buddha from top. On the way down I left the Lantau Trail and went south, down to Kau Nga Ling and then further to the Shek Pik reservoir. This track was officially closed but three other hikers went that way uphill. I talked to two of them, and they told me, that going down is way too difficult, so they are going only up. I thought OK I’ll try it anyway…well, honestly, I couldn’t find any place which was really for climbing down. Yes there were some narrow paths, but not really exposed nor to climb. I finally went down to the road and then to the beach, before I headed back to the city by bus and MTR.
