Today we went out to Lung Yeuk Tau heritage trail. We took the bus out to Sha Tin, caught the MTR to Fanling and then onto another bus to the start of the trail. Fanling is pretty close to the border.
The trail takes you through 5 walled villages dating back to the 13th century. We came out here a while ago and visited a few of them, but it's supposed to be longer so we opted to try the whole thing again. The trail was poorly marked but we found our way, after backtracking a few times, and dodging some very mange looking dogs.
The highlight of the trail is a complete walled village, with double entry towers. It was pretty amazing. It is still completely intact, and isn't sagging or bulging at all. The only problem is that they have torn down most of the original buildings inside the wall and replaced them with modern 3 story homes, which have very little character and are actually very ugly.
At home these walled villages would be historical sites with controlled building, or have been completely torn down. But in Hong Kong, they just keep what is good and tear down the bad parts. It would be nice if they had preserved these villages and kept the history.
Old manson along trail
This was one of our least favorite heritage trails - we certainly would not take the senior couples on it. We had visited part of the heritage trail in July when it was so hot, so we decided to try it again. Not worth the long journey and wouldn’t do it again.
Community garden
Entrance into walled village
Part of old wall
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