Tai Po Waterfront Park

On Sunday we took Hannah to a park at Tai Po in the New Territories which is apparently a good place to bicycle.    This is part of my campaign to try all the children's cycling spots in Hong Kong.

The Tai Po New Town is quite built-up with the standard-issue tower-blocks but it also has many cycle-paths and a big and attractive waterfront park with playgrounds and cycle-rental etc.

This is the a kite-flying area (with kite-eating trees decorated with string).

The park has a small observation tower.   This is the view looking east.   You can see MaOnShan mountain looks striking to the right, and has its new town along the coast where we cycled earlier in the year.

Video:  Tolo Harbour from observation tower.

We hired cycles and cycled through the trees along the 1km waterfront promenade.   

At the end of the promenade is a play-ground and a cafe selling a range of chinese junk-food

Hannah enjoyed an ice-cream.

She also got to play in the various playgrounds but didn't find them anything special.   Overall she says her favorite cycle-track is still Carpenter Road in Kowloon.     I'd like to try the 11km cycle-path from Tai Po to Shatin, but we need to wait for Hannah to get a bit bigger.

Final score for the afternoon:  8 union-jack t-shirts plus (bonus point) a union-jack cycle helmet