My way home from work.

I guess a lot of people think of Hong Kong like just a huge crowded city. Well it is, or part of is, and then there is the rest, and the biggest part; the New Territories. Well that is where we live, outside the crowded city, on the countryside with the many hills, mountains, the jungle, the sea and the many small islands. We both work in on of the new cities in the Sha Tin district and build along the Shing Mun river channel. The area is called Ma On Shan, and is named after the second highest mountain in Hong Kong, and the settlement is build on the riverbank just at the foot of this mountain. I can't tell you how many people live in Ma On Shan or the other "towns", which is build in Sha Tin district along this river channel since the 60ties, but it could be close to 1 million. On my way home from work by bus I have this amazing experience to get on the bus, being surrounded by high rises and following an intensely busy 4 lane road along the overhead railway from Tai Wai to Wu Kai Sha.This railway ends here, at Wu Kai Sha, so does the city. From being squeezed in between mega housing structures, you suddenly finds yourself on a common country road entering an area with typical Chinese village houses before you get out on the country, driving through a subtropical jungle with a view to the sea through the trees on the left side. All this in only 10 to 15 minutes.And a bit later I'm home in Tai Wan Village.