I've been doing a lot of biking lately but I haven't had time to blog about it...
Three weeks ago I rode from the east side of the New Territories (Fanling) to the West Side (Kam Sheung Rd in Yuen Long). The week after I rode back along Castle Peak Rd (near the border w/ China) to Sheung Shui. Then last week during the national day holiday, I rode down to Tai Wo... then this weekend down to Ma On Shan and late on Wednesday Night I went the rest of the way to Shatin... about 39 miles total! ( here's the whole route courtesy of gmaps-pedometer.com)
Here's some pics from those rides:
I found out there's a bmx park in Fanling -
Unfortunately it was quite empty... i guess the BMXers were all at Church or something. :-P
On my way down Fan Kam Rd (which connects FANling and KAMsheung).... somewhere in the middle (of no where) is the border of Yuenlong:
Really not much here! (which is a good thing in a concrete jungle like HK)
The next week on the way back from Yuen Long I took a side road in Mai Po near the border with Shenzhen (Mainland China city right across the border):
This area is full of fisheries and other random stuff... I guess it was all marshland and then over the years they turned it into separate bodies of water.
I followed this road a bit farther than I think I was supposed to:
They have a fence here to keep illegal immigrants and smugglers out of HK... I decided to try going to the right instead...
But I wasn't exactly sure what to do when faced w/ this sign... I wasn't sure if they meant that the fenced off area was 'frontier closed area' or where I was already standing was 'frontier closed area' (since I technically passed through a police check point that wasn't manned..)
fearing they may be watching me on some TV cameras or something, I turned around... next time I go back I'll try to see how close i can get to the border before the police stop me.
:-P
ps - by the time you read this, I should be in sunny, tropical, politically unstable Thailand... supporting my homies in 24Herbs!
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