Different streams in the South West of Lantau island. Nothing especially impressive, but good for a day going up and down these watercourses and the hills around.

  • Beauty/fun: 5.5/10 There are several high waterfalls but are either thin type or the stream doesn’t tend to have much water; so they are not so impressive.
  • Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 7.5/10 if you try to do them all in one go. The ribbons guide you through quite perilous cliffs. There are easier options if you are ready to get almost full body wet. You might want to bring a 20m rope to help weaker hikers in your group.
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The usual public transportation would be MTR to Tung Chung and bus from there to the Western side of Shek Pik reservoir. Therefore buses going to either Tai O or Ngong Ping.

There is a bathroom just in the start of the route and concrete for the first almost couple of kilometers, seeing the prison and the third Tai Long Wan below (the “Big Wave Bay”s in Saikung and Hong Kong island are more well known).

The first stream, let’s call it Tai Long, is the less impressive. But it could be a good test if you are bringing newbies with you.

Check the GPS, as the exit path is not obvious. The Government set a sign on the very start (East) of the path years ago saying that there had been landslides in the area and it was not safe to be hiked on. Thereof, with fewer and fewer hikers, the vegetation is getting thicker. In any case, once you find it, you will only need to walk on it for 150m before you connect with a well-maintained path that will bring you back to the concrete.

Miu Miu stream a little further West (pink line) is a nicer one. Here a video with a big group going up Miu Miu and down Left Ling Bai + some coasteering around Pak Kok.

This stream has a couple of high waterfalls. Although tend to be of the thin type. You can climb really close to them or find the side paths (easy ones) marked with ribbons just a little beforehand.

The soil in all this area must be quite poor, as you can see a lot of carnivorous Pitcher plants.

Second fall. All pictures were taken in the winter time. Therefore with low water flow. They look better in the summertime, as most streams do in Hong Kong.

Nevertheless, the water was very clean, above all in the higher areas.

Continue up and eventually, you will find the easy main hiking path.

Ling Bai itself is the Westernmost stream shown on the map. It has different tributaries. The main ones are usually called Left, Middle and Right, which have some smaller sub-tributaries. Depending on how you plan the route you could start either on the top of one of them (it was my case) or bottom. For clarity here explained bottom to top.

To go to the very bottom. Take the concrete step path down towards the Tai Long Wan campgrounds. Continue down till you arrive at the beach. You will need to head right, pass some rocks (easy, easy “coasteering”) and arrive at the second beach. Finding the stream within the jungle might be the most complicated the first time there. Just trust the GPS and you will get into it. The vegetation might be quite dense for the first hundred meters and later on opens little by little. There are some small waterfalls here and finally you will come up till here.

Continue, through the concrete or as you wish, and find the main tributary up (dark blue line still). Moving forwards the stream gets more interesting. Another video, this time going up Ling Bai left after some rainy days and down through Man Cheung Po.

You will find several forks. On the map marked the main ones. I would say that Right Ling Bai is the easiest route.

Middle’s trickiest section is just the main waterfall area. Last time there (Jan 2019) a landslide had moved back the easiest way up on its right. Be careful and, maybe, also bring a rope to help weaker hikers in your group. Left Ling Bai can be done easier if you are ready to get fully wet. If not there is a perilous cliff to climb. The ribbons will guide you up through here (marked with the orange flag).

5 to 8 meters high. Narrow. Bit sandy… Definitely not for the faint-hearted. So again, be careful and bring a rope with you, just in case. Instead of climbing, you could just go through the pool under the cliff. If you are good scrambling you might do it without getting wet. Worst case you will get wet up to torso level and climb the small waterfalls ahead.

When continuing up beware of the parallel streams running around. The main stream was kinda open, but it is easy to get to the wrong sides. If you see too much vegetation around, try to retrace and find the correct stream up.

Everything you should know before stream hiking.

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