The good thing is that now I remember the way to go to the trail from the MTR which is as follows: from exit A, we walked towards the cyclist lane (in green) beside an estate on Hing Tung road and past the taxi rank. We took the first tunnel on the left and walked straight on until we hit the second tunnel and turned right, followed the lane all the way to the end of the tunnel. Then, we walked along Yu Tung road and climbed up the bridge on the left. At the end of the bridge is the entrance to Ma Wan New Village and walked through it we went to the back of the village or if you follow the footpath you may actually avoid the pack of vicious dogs. The bush we saw in front of us is the starting point to go up the steep and brushy snake trail to Pok To Yan.
The weather improved as we made our ascend to the first peak. The sky was blue and the sun was out. A perfect day for hiking and being outdoor. I did not put enough sun block and as a result I have got sunburn. One highlight of the hike was climbing up a small hill not far from the junction that joins the trail to Lantau trail (I think it is near distance post 011 to go up to Sunset Peak) to get to the trigonometrical marker of Lin Fa Shan which was quite hard because we did not follow the trail and steep. Once at the top we were rewarded by beautiful view and breeze which made it worthwhile.
Some of the pictures I took on the hike to Lin Fa Shan can be seen here.
Enjoy!
