free family fun: old lei yue mun stone quarry

Last Saturday we visited the Lei Yue Mun stone quarry for the second time. I love it because it is a beautiful, interesting place that is actually very close to where we live. It's only a 10-minute taxi ride to Lei Yue Mun, which is now known for their seafood restaurants, and from there, a 30-minute or so walk to the quarry itself.

After arriving at the entrance of Lei Yue Mun, you'll walk along a route that looks like this:

Walking towards the seafood restaurants

And then you'll see the seafood restaurants (there are lots of them - keep going until you stop seeing them!):

The first of many seafood restaurants

One of the restaurants has a private pier! It's very pretty:

If you keep going, you'll see more and more beautiful views:

and flowers (and lots of papaya trees), too:

You'll reach Tin Hau Temple, and walk through that. You're getting pretty close by this point, and soon you'll see this sign: 

Then, just up ahead, you'll see another sign, this one leading into a very narrow walkway: 

                                               

Keep walking for another five minutes, or so, and you're there! It's a beautiful place. Bobo had dinosaurs in his backpack, so the children quickly got to work building their own miniature quarry for the dinosaurs to play in. 

We were there on an extremely sunny day, so we could only stay for about twenty minutes before heading back. The children enjoyed grape popsicles as we meandered through the seafood stalls once more. After a quick lunch, we stopped by the Lei Yue Mun Public Library, which is bright and spacious, and has quite a big children's area. 

One reminder for families wanting to check out the stone quarry: it is not a terribly easily walk for little ones! It's short, just 30 minutes or so, but there isn't much shade at all, and the last little part before you finally get there is pretty rocky! I think it's totally worth it, though. I love the quarry! :)