Coasteering from an MTR station (Yau Tong) to another MTR station (Tiu Keng Leng). Anything more convenient required? 😛
- Beauty/fun: 5.5/10. Almost in all the route, you will see the city in front or behind, but surprisingly the water quality can be quite decent here. We even found a secluded nice beach midway.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 4/10. You can do it completely dry. Big sections of the route are on slabs, but the grip of the rock is quite good. Several early exits if necessary. Tons of fishermen around on weekends that can provide tips. We even found several chalk marked arrows in the initial section. 2020 update: There are a lot of concrete small stepping points + some additional metal steps all around the route. Doable without them, but might give you an idea of which are the easiest routes on the slabs.
- The map
A better map (that you can download to your phone for offline use).
See full screen and Garmin track including going up to Devil’s Peak. Original ViewRanger map.
Yau Tong MTR station exit A2. Down the stairs to the street.
You will walk into the “seafood street”. Tons of restaurants in the area showing their “goods”.
Continue close to the coastline and soon you will pass a temple and arrive at a plain where you can find quite some photographers.
Just behind the “wall” on the left is where you will start your real coasteering. North direction, leaving Chai Wan behind.
Initially, the rocks do not look very “reliable”, in a continuous steep incline. But, even with not especially grippy shoes, carefully you will be able to travess this section.
If in doubt try to find arrows or talk with the fishermen around. In 2020 it was even easier to find the way. Just look for the concrete (on the right of the next pic) or metal pieces (on the left). I could see them at least till the beaches.
There are quite some interesting formations like these different color strata.
I already mentioned the continuous slabs in some of the areas.
Although there are some others with more standard rocks.
Fishermen boats around all the way.
The scrambling sections are not long nor complicated.
A little tunnel to go through in her case, me climbing above.
Seeing clearly already Tseung Kwan O area in front.
But before
you will arrive at several beaches.
This first one was by far the nicest. The water was quite clean, further from the city, and the sand could have a bit less trash, but definitely not bad for a completely isolated beach in HK with no cleaning services (in Dec2020 it was cleaner).
You have several exits around. If you continue you will walk into a second beach.
Just before arriving at RockXplorers beach, third one, we found (Early May 2017) a fence to avoid crossing to a construction area just behind.
There were a rope and ribbons going up to the road.
But the path is anything but pleasant. Climbing up holding to the vines and thorny vegetation around.
2020 Dec we found a parallel path, just next to the metal fence, with slightly less vegetation. Still not the nicest exit anyhow. Knowing what we would hike, I would have sneaked in the construction site (not working, weekend) through any of the big holes on the fence or swim around to arrive at the beach and take the stairs up to the road.
From here onwards you will walk on the concrete to the MTR station.
The only tricky sections in this route are those where the streams above make wet the “sanded down” rocks. It can be quite slippery after rainy days. Just try to avoid them or go down into the sea.
Dec 2020 pics going up to Devil’s Peak first.
As you can see in the last pic the construction at the very end continues. So the exit is still a bit messy unless you swim quite long to the very last beach, which had almost no sand now…
Even with this forecast
no waves whatsoever, but for the boats around. Tide does not affect the route either.
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