{"id":3812,"date":"2013-10-05T23:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jett.in\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2013-10-05T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T06:10:05","slug":"instawalk-mui-wo-lantau-island-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2013\/10\/instawalk-mui-wo-lantau-island-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk &#8212; Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a quick 30-minute &#8220;fast ferry&#8221; ride away from Central (Central Ferry Pier #6, cash and Octopus card accepted, fares 50% more on Sundays), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mui_Wo\">Mui Wo<\/a> is an anachronism when compared to the skyscrapers and wall-to-wall people of Hong Kong&#8217;s busier parts. that&#8217;s not to say it&#8217;s completely rural, though. there&#8217;s a 7-Eleven, McDonald&#8217;s, and several banks within spitting distance (don&#8217;t spit; it spreads germs! ;)) of the ferry terminal. <\/p>\n<p>there is a Heritage Trail [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hkwalkers.net\/eng\/trail_list\/other_route\/islands_nature_heritage_trail\/Route_Map.htm\">map<\/a>; i walked from the pier on the lower right to the silver mine near #7 and back] that takes you to a small temple, a waterfall, a (closed) mine shaft entrance, and beyond. just follow the shore to the right as you exit the ferry terminal past the &#8220;Cooked Food Market&#8221; and turn left just before the Silvermine Resort, then follow the signs. it&#8217;s a pretty easy trek, completely paved, but watch out for bicyclists. it&#8217;s about an hour round trip of brisk walking to the mine shaft if you don&#8217;t stop too long along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10109896095\/\" title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5475\/10109896095_42f54cacd1_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"upload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110064526\/\" title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3807\/10110064526_8395ae9a6a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"upload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110297213\/\" title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3679\/10110297213_ebba63199f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"upload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110176664\/\" title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5509\/10110176664_87d6d0a4a8_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"upload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110194614\/\" title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7405\/10110194614_f2d222e6e6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"upload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110280004\/\" title=\"This waterfall is rinky-dinkier than expected but oh well. Beggars can't be choosers! by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7410\/10110280004_089d66f12a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"This waterfall is rinky-dinkier than expected but oh well. Beggars can't be choosers!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110475174\/\" title=\"I walked all the way from the water! by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5446\/10110475174_a437377e74_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"I walked all the way from the water!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110651366\/\" title=\"Tending to crops by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5535\/10110651366_c77d740584_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Tending to crops\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/10110808605\/\" title=\"2 x wo^2 (lame Cantonese + math joke) by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7295\/10110808605_4362ff5f01_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2 x wo^2 (lame Cantonese + math joke)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>when i went the waterfall was a relative trickle, but after a rainfall i think it can get quite torrential &#8212; there are flash flood warnings along the creek the waterfall feeds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>In which I hike onto rocks below a waterfall in inappropriate shoes and hope for the best. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qz2JNgZmcF\">pic.twitter.com\/qz2JNgZmcF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonk\/statuses\/386690131274391552\">October 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a quick 30-minute &#8220;fast ferry&#8221; ride away from Central (Central Ferry Pier #6, cash and Octopus card accepted, fares 50% more on Sundays), Mui Wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Instawalk -- Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong #travel #travelblog","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[368,1135,436,499],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instawalk - Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong - Wanderlusty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2013\/10\/instawalk-mui-wo-lantau-island-hong-kong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Instawalk - Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong - Wanderlusty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"a quick 30-minute &#8220;fast ferry&#8221; 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