HK: New Territories

Here’s the first of four posts of photos and observations from the trip. I should have them all up by the end of the week and then it will be back to regularly scheduled programming. Here’s some photos of hiking in the New Territories. The Hong Kong SAR is made up of a bunch of islands (of which Hong Kong is the second biggest) and a peninsular leading up to mainland China. At the bottom of the peninsular is Kowloon, the big residential and shopping area facing Hong Kong across the bay. North of Kowloon are the New Territories, which geographically are much much larger than Hong Kong but have only a fraction of the population of the big city.

It’s only about an hour out of Hong Kong but it feels like another country. On the hike were a bunch of old abandoned buildings, a whole village worth, slowly rotting away. It was kind of creepy standing on the roof of an abandoned house and looking out across the village, wondering how long ago people had lived there.

Posted in Travel on Tuesday January 11, 2005.