Description
Bride’s Pool Falls and Nature area’s name comes from a legendary incident where a bride, while being carried to her wedding, died after being flung out of her sedan chair over a waterfall when one of her porters lost his footing. It is beautiful and wild area where one can find a biodiversity unmatched in other large urban metropolises.
The sublime beauty of its lush mountainous jungle slopes, filled with a chorus of returning spring birds perched among vibrant flowers and green leaves, is contrasted against distinctive and rhythmic howls of Ferraris, Ducati, modded Subaru and Hondas as they deftly manoeuvre along the precipitous curves of Bride’s Pool’s jungle track. Mostly “boy racers” whose need for speed has unfortunately caused many to succumb to the road’s treacherous curves that divide two of Hong Kong’s largest unspoilt green spaces.
This series of relics, strewn across the jungle floor and mountainsides, mark only a few of the numerous accidents sites and deaths that have occurred on Brides Pool Road. The area is known as one of Hong Kong’s ‘ghostly’ regions due to the unusual concentration of fatalities that have occurred within its boundaries. Newly replaced lampposts mark the entrances to these sites where one can explore these graveyards formed by decades of crashes.
These unintentional necropolises marked by bumpers, belts, engine parts, and the badges of their car makers serve as ‘memento mori’ or reminders of death. The moss and lichen that grows on their surfaces, bamboo shoots that have sprung up through them, and crawling vines that envelope them serve as timelines, as they are slowly swallowed up by the jungle under an unyielding tropical sun.
