Smugglers' Ridge Hike

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Basically you start up north at Pineapple Dam and hike 4.5km south along the ridge. During the first part you encounter some World War 2 defense trench and bunker ruins, which are really neat. They were put there by the British in the 30s to defend Hong Kong. Some of the defense trenches are named after British streets.


Further along you climb up to an amazing view of Tsuen Wan (an area of HK). You are probably about sixty stories up at this point.

And even further along the trail joins what is known as the "Monkey Trail," which is by Golden Hill. Along here there are tons of macaques. We even saw some jump into a pool of water and swim around!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE2ZPm6wK30

Afterwards all went out to a vegetarian restaurant called "Sino." They use soy to make fake meats such as duck, beef, chicken, shrimp, pork, etc. It's very realistic, but I opted for a mushroom-potato-tomato mixture instead.