Pete Spurrier

Jade-green peaks, crashing waves, fung shui woods, rocky harbors and ancient walled villages – only a few miles separate all this from one of the world's most crowded cities. Four long-distance trails allow access into this scenic landscape.The Hong Kong Trail: view the cityscape from above as yo...

By any measure, Hong Kong is an impressive city. But there is a world beyond the impatient traffic and chic shopping malls: an older place of soot-blackened temples, traditional street markets and colonial-era museums. Travel twenty minutes out of the metropolis, and you'll find stone-laid trails...