{"id":1270,"date":"2010-03-23T00:18:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T00:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2010-03-23T00:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T00:18:48","slug":"lantaus_hidden_beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Lantau&#8217;s Hidden Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some scenes from the hike I did on Saturday 30 January in Lantau Island. It&#8217;s the toughest yet most beautiful hike to date. No pain, no gain. \ud83d\ude42  The pain was worth it though &#8211; the views were magnificent but I didn&#8217;t take that many photos as it was hard to whip my camera out as I was climbing around the various precarious slopes that dropped down a few hundred metres.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4318483811_47ac259f00.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"IMG_9543\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nFrom Tung Chung station, we took Bus 11 to Shek Pik Reservoir where we started our hike.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2782\/4319219542_c2f018d461.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9547\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nView from a rest stop<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4054\/4318488829_c4cb20950b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9553\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nHiking up a ridge<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2724\/4318490491_25a504f729.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_9556\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nGoing up the West Dog&#8217;s Teeth Ridge. We went up to about 800 metres and were literally in the clouds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4030\/4319224576_22927139d0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9557\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nThe Big Buddha sitting at Ngong Ping with its back to us.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4319230124_66629d6dc4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9570\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nOne of many rock climbs we had to do. Lantau has some of most scenic hiking trails in Hong Kong and it&#8217;s one of my favourite places to hike. It&#8217;s definitely worth hiking in if you&#8217;re an avid hiker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some scenes from the hike I did on Saturday 30 January in Lantau Island. It&#8217;s the toughest yet most beautiful hike to date. No pain, no gain. \ud83d\ude42 The pain was worth it though &#8211; the views were magnificent but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}