Tiger's Head

Discovery Bay

Yesterday I went on a hike from Discovery Bay to Mui Wo with my parents and their hiking friends. The first 3 km were pretty steep, but well worth it for the views. At the top most point of the hike Lo Fu Tau aka Tiger's Head we had ascended 465m and we could see all of Discovery Bay and we could have seen Hong Kong/Kowloon if it had been a clearer day. On the descent to Mui Wo there were some great views of Tung Cheung and the Hong Kong airport. At some points the airplanes taking off weren't that much higher up than us. 

Mui Wo

The terrain for the hike was forever changing. It went from grassy hills to steep rocky inclines, staircases to narrow jungle paths and paved walkways to dirt tracks. 

Grassy hills

 The last little bit of the hike was along the Hong Kong Olympic trail which was dedicated to the Chinese Olympians for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Every few hundred metres there was a paving stone with an Olympic sport depicted on it. 

Tsing Tao beer on the restaurant patio

The Olympic trail ends in Mui Wo, a small little town filled with bicycles. Many people grow fruit in their front yards, I saw papaya trees, banana trees and pineapple plants! We ended the hike by grabbing a beer and some lunch at a restaurant on the coast. The perfect end to a great hike.