The Plover Cove country park has very popular waterfalls, mainly Bride’s Pool. Just minutes walking from there you find a really nice stream to hike.
- Beauty/fun: 7/10. After rainy days Dragon Ball waterfall is a mighty one. Several other waterfalls. Pools where to dip into.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 4.5/10. All the difficult “in the stream” sections can be bypassed, with ribbon marked lateral paths.
- Map
And a better map (how to download to your phone offline maps).
See full screen and the Garmin track.
The starting point is near the Bride’s Pool BBQ place. Usual transportation includes MTR to Tai Po Market and then bus/taxi up till there. You will need to go a bit more than 200 meters down on the road and the entrance is exactly here
behind the gate.
Walk on the left side and you will be in a minute in the stream itself. We have hiked this on rainy days.
Or dry. Both were OK with good enough shoes. Not especially slippery rocks.
In a bit more than 20 minutes we arrived at the first big waterfall area.
Some areas might require using your hands a bit.
And in 10-15 minutes you arrive at Dragon’s Ball waterfall.
It requires some significant rain in the previous days or hours to be most impressive. If you want to do it difficult it can be climbed starting on its right. But it is quite dangerous, above all if with wet rocks or with a strong flow of water coming down…
Instead, there is a way easier path on the left side. Exactly from the two previous pics were taken just continue toward the woods and find ribbons guiding you up.
It is quite steep but safe.
And in 5-10 minutes you will arrive at the top of the waterfall. Views from the drone.
And a video.
Just above there are several pools perfect to take a rest.
Continue. You can find tons of ribbons guiding you in this stream.
Another nice-looking waterfall.
Sometimes you will need to get into the bamboo forest around the stream if you do not want to get your shoes wet.
Or just have some fun within 😀
Mirror-like sallow pool.
And the last pretty
although small waterfalls.
The slope decreases and you find a connection with the main path going down to Bride’s Pool (shortest), Tai Mei Tuk (a bit longer), or up to Pat Sin Leng (really nice but really long route).
A video with us canyoning first the needle hole in Bride’s Pool & after Dragon Ball waterfall.
Everything you should know before stream hiking.
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June 26, 2018 at 12:19 pm
wow. great adventure. I will definitely explore this too.. thank you for sharing
June 26, 2018 at 3:14 pm
My pleasure. Enjoy!
June 26, 2018 at 9:42 pm
thank you. looking forward to explore most, if not, all of HK’s hidden beauties where most people dont know about them.Goodluck on your future. adventures amd we’ll definitely follow in your footsteps.. Lets. enjoy.
September 21, 2020 at 3:03 pm
we did this today! thanks for the great instructions. it was super fun. bit slippy as it was drizzling on and off but so much water…. i mean strong flow everywhere. we had to leave the stream a litle after after the top of dragon ball because we heard the thunder coming down and so we took a right hand ribboned path that eventually met up with pat sin leng nature trail. tho i wonder whether it was worth it as it was very eerie and overgrown (there must have been a fire earlier last year as trees charred) and weirdly devoid of any bird sounds, only crickets.
September 21, 2020 at 5:06 pm
I have included the offline map which shows several extra paths around, in case anyone is in a similar situation later. Those paths can be a bit overgrown indeed.
September 9, 2021 at 12:08 pm
The sentence “Going up till almost the peak, Tai Mo Shan, the highest in Hong Kong.” seems to be a copy and paste error left there from either https://hkoutdooradventures.com/2017/10/14/tai-shing-upper-nw/ or https://hkoutdooradventures.com/2018/11/07/tai-shing-upper-north/. Haha, hopefully this didn’t scare anyone.
Thanks!
September 10, 2021 at 8:21 am
Definitely that was a typo 😅 I guess, when I was adding the Beauty/Fun line. Removed. Thanks!