Tai Mo Shan is outside the city, so I took the MTR for the first time. It's actually quite convenient. Besides Cantonese signs the names of the stations are written in English, too. In larger MTR stations the only challenges is to take the right exit (A, B, C, D,...) so that you get to out on the street you are looking for. "Human traffic" inside the metro stations is well structured: right hand side is to be used for entering the metro and left side is for disembarking.
As there was no public transportation to the start of the hiking trail, we took the taxi from a MTR station close by. Getting a taxi to this spot was not as easy as we thought. The first taxi driver apparently did not know where we wanted to go, so he drove a circle around the MTR station just to throw us out of the cab when we reached the taxi station again. With the help of a young Hongkong Chinese man, we managed to get a taxi to Lead Mine Pass which was the entry to the hiking trail.
The trail lead across a kilometer of concrete road and stairs. As the first steep part ended, I had already a nice view over Hongkong and its surrouding.
Coloured caterpillars can be found around here, too. You should not tease them, tough. A bite of them won't kill you but cause nausea, dizziness and pain in several parts of your body.
Having hiked Lead Mine Pass, the climb up to Tai Mo Shan began. This hill is on the Maclehose Trail. Both trails - Lead Mine Pass and Maclehose - belong to the system of well sign-posted hiking trails in the New Territories.
Just beneath Tai Mo Shan you have a nice view over the city of Hong Kong.
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