Night Riding

We take a bus to Mui Wo, the ferry city. We're not hungry yet..only for some good bike riding! I know...corny. We rent one for 10 HKD...that is a little over a dollar, people!

Teresa kept saying this was 'real' hong kong...before all the development. The great thing about it is it's still one little chunk of it. I'm realizing more and more how diverse my new city is...

We rode in and out of dirt and paved paths. After coming out of this one narrow, hidden path...we see this random cow just walk into the bushes. Then we come out onto paved road...and see FOUR COWS. And they're big. and scary looking, as you can see with their demon eyes in the photo. They just stop there when they see us. We walk to the right, trying to get past them...and they just mosey on along, not getting in our way. So after all, they were intriguingly polite creatures. I love cows!

Riding along, we choose a long path going to who-knows-where and stumble upon what I like to call Temple Town. There were just a bunch of people in this communal space, eating at round tables and praying inside rooms with incense. One of them asked us to explore around, especially up the stairs to this special shrine for the 'seven sisters'.

At this point, we're just like...what the heck. But we do the incense thing out of courtesy. I give props to the sisters - miss green being my favorite (not shown in photo).

Afterwards, the temple people invited us to eat with them. And we did...all the while thinking "this is intensely weird...but in a good way". It all felt like the movie Spirited Away. The ambience of it. It was dream-like.