A Wonderfalls Trip “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Be water, my friend. “– Bruce Lee […]
Let me get the other things out of the way first. After the dismal trek up Fansipan (read about it here), we downgraded our expectations. Drastically. The trek took up 5 days (2 days travelling/acclimatising, 3 days trekking) and then we were left with 4: Day 1: arrived […]
Expectation WAS The Root of All Heartache When we got to Sapa (1500m), it was foggy, rainy and cold. Brown rivulets flowed constantly on the roads from construction materials stacked by the roadside, from heaps of rubbish emitting a kind of smell even in that weather. Hardly the tranquil, […]
The Day We Almost Became Toast Roz’s tips were precise. So getting lost was entirely our fault. Her instructions for getting to MacLehose Trail Stage 4 were: Take the MTR to Choi Hung (rainbow) Station (check), get out from Exit A (check), then take a taxi to Gilwell Campsite via Fei Ggo Shan […]
We Did it Our Way In Hong Kong, Spring ends in May and Summer begins in June. We arrived in hong kong on the the last day of May – and the weather was excellent; bright, sunny, humid and felt exactly like home (30ish degrees). In the 5 […]
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