Summer

Travel is extremely gratifying on every level. Heading into our third summer of travel restriction, one way or another, we were discovering our means to have school break. Or stepping off the hamster wheel, if I could, to nibble some cheese and watch the world go by (but emails still come in, I know).

No sooner had we completed this thought, than right in our mind, we came up the idea of taking walk at Victoria Peak and Lantau Trail. Those are two of our favourite tracks. We first took the option of traversing a circular nature walk at the Peak: a cleanly maintained, easy-to-navigate path peppered with many banyan trees.

Ngong Ping Cable Car is another tour option to offer jaw-dropping views, best sandwiched with hiking between the two-way ride. We trudged up the trail to the craggy hill section where we could see the Zhuhai Macau Bridge and full view over Ngong Ping. Despite the hot temperature of midsummer, my daughter’s humour has augmented our joy by writing poem during hiking. “How amazing it is to hike with a poet,” I thought. To which I reply, yes, exactly right.