Really nice waterfalls and spectacular cliff views in Wong Lung Han area. Steadily steep but with some trickier sections & less people than the latter.
- Beauty/fun: 8/10 after several days of rain the main falls are spectacular. If with good shoes and skills you can do it up and connect back again down Wong Lung Han for a loop with some of the most impressive landscape in Hong Kong.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 7/10 if using the easier route. There are several high spots that you will need to climb on, but nothing as exposed as the parallel Crouching Dragon. The routing is relatively straightforward with ribbons and others left by previous hikers, beware of old ropes.
- The map (how to download to your phone)
See full screen and the Garmin track going up Dragon’s Jaw & down Joh Lung & Wong Lung Han streams.
The start is exactly the very same one as the Crouching Dragon’s. Copy paste:
Transportation. MTR Tung Chung Station. You could take a taxi from there and try to convince the driver to take you up till the barrier, marked on the map. Some are not willing to. Otherwise you will be walking for a bit more than 3 kilometers on concrete.
You will start exactly in the same direction as Wong Lung Han. The very end of the concrete road, head into the stream and start going up. The entrance to the Crouching Dragon tributary is not obvious. You might pass it if you don’t pay attention. There is a rock where several groups have marked/carved the Chinese characters (臥龍石澗, Ngo Lung Stream) and an arrow pointing
to the tributary on its left (watch video in Crouching Dragon for more visual clues), with several ribbons, significantly steeper than the previous. There is a very obvious fork. With a V-shaped waterfall. The tributary to continue on is the RIGHT one this time.
It is quite picturesque from here on. Initially within the forest, full of mossy areas.
Opening
to the most spectacular part.
There are several ribbon paths here. Easiest is just few meters behind were the previous pic was taken looking to me on your right. You will go up a bit more than 4 meters. Then you will need to cross carefully the top of the previous waterfall.
And arrive to the bottom of the Dragon’s Jaw.
There are people that climb the wall on its left. Mainly on winter time. If you try it then increase the difficulty to 10/10. You will be 30-40m high. Instead, you have a way easier path on the right side of the cliff. Beware of ropes going up.
Several 2-3m almost perpendicular walls that you will need to pass. But not specially difficult. You might want to bring a rope to help weaker hikers, in case the old ropes are not in good condition. Finally you will arrive at the top of that section of the waterfall. You can try to look down.
Continue up and you will arrive at the last waterfall that I have marked before leaving through a side path. Here.
If you continue on the stream the slope decreases little by little and there are no remarkable waterfalls any more. Some bush walking and then easy back route back to Tung Chung marked with a green line.
If you want to continue with the fun, use the Dragon corridor, brown line, that connects the four “parallel” streams. If you go South, through some bushy path for less than ten minutes, you will connect with Joh Lung (Left Dragon) stream. Here almost ending it on the top of its main waterfall.
Just before connecting
through a steep path (do not use the ropes without checking!)
to its lower part. Here already looking up from Wong Lung Han.
There are several ribboned paths around. A bit confusing. You could go down relatively easily next to the waterfall itself till the aforementioned top and on its left looking down (South bank) find ribbons heading you farther South towards the end of Wong Lung Han standard hike. If you get really close to the waterfall you could climb down. High wall, climbable and with several ropes. Just 20 meters from the previous pic.
Then enjoy the stream downhill. If you do this full loop, consider the route a 8/10 difficulty.
All the pics where I am in by Ina.
August 2022: We did the full loop again this time with the ladies trying to climb as many falls as possible in a rainy day. Pics including the right side dry scrambling on the main fall. Beware of the old ropes and bring your own just in case to help weaker hikers in your group.
Everything you should know before stream hiking.
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September 7, 2021 at 4:11 pm
Thanks for sharing so many details with us!
September 5, 2022 at 12:09 am
Hi thanks for sharing..we plan to hike Dragon’s Jaw on Sept.12.do u have a full video of your route base on this post?thank u so much.
September 5, 2022 at 7:16 pm
Nope. And if we would have it it would be showing not the standard route 😅 I have just uploaded the pics in Instagram, and updated the web post now accordingly, with our last visit a few weeks ago. Waterfall climbing mode. It can be a lot easier just following the ribbons and side paths.
Just find the entry and don’t take the left in the V shape stream as explained. Quite straightforward route. By no means easy though. So hope that you ladies have experience and good gear. 10m rope recommended. Some of the set ones are old and eventually they will break.
Be safe out there!
June 25, 2024 at 12:06 am
Thanks for this guide! We followed the route all the way to the bottom of Dragon’s Jaw main waterfall but instead of the right-side ropes going north to the top of the waterfall, we ended up going eastward through the forest trail (blue dashed lines on the map).
We followed a series of orange ribbons. It led us through a forest trail and out to Joh Lung upstream, a bit farther downstream than where the Dragon Corridor ends. I initially thought my GPS was whack but apparently that route is not in the Openstreet maps and is separate based on what you have in this page. Still got to enjoy Joh Lung though! We went out through the second and third Dangers instead with the intention of going to Lung Ho stream but we decided against it and just went up the forest trail.
August 9, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Hi
Apologies for the late reply. Your comment got stopped by the spam checker…
I see the blue dotted line in the Openstreetmap. I guess someone wanted to mark a faint path and used the wrong option (stream). It would be great if you add your path, if you recorded it.
There are more and more options in that area. I know that there is at least another cliff that people scramble on. And more ribbons all around…