Another short coasteering route, around Long Ke in Sai Kung. You could combine it with the previous one for a long day with nice views all around.

  • Beauty/fun: 6.5/10 This side of the small peninsula is less interesting. Some nice rock formations, with several good cliff jumping points, no sand on the little final inlet. The nicest area is the Southernmost part with the caves and best column formations. So you might want, above all if without boat, doing the route reverse. That way if you have time you could consider following towards Long Ke itself.
  • Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 5/10 if doing it with a support boat. 6/10 if doing the full loop from the East Dam, as the approach and exit hiking routes require some scrambling down and mild bush-walking added to the extra distance.
  • Map

See full screen and the Garmin track.

In our case we came with the boat and we were not sure if the waves would increase in size throughout the day and therefore jumped to the water in the Southernmost area.

If with no boat, you would need to take a taxi to the East Dam and follow all the initial instructions explained in the post of hiking all Saikung East. Including the not so easy way to arrive at Long Ke Tsai.

and a bit of bush walking going South till the end of the peninsula, just in front of Conic Island.

Once there you would climb down to the sea side. There are different ways that you will find. As mentioned, this is the most interesting part. Several caves in the area. It is also where the hexagonal columns are most impressive. Moving forward you can still see them, but not as clear.

The route is very straightforward.

You will need to jump into the water several times or scramble high.

Any sketchy scramble

can be avoided by going a little bit higher on the rocks or jumping into the water. With clear & deep water jumping points.

Around 6-7m highest tried, marked on the map.

Little by little the green of the opposite side of the small bay unfolds.

And the rocks that you are going to be walking on get flatter.

At the innermost part of the bay you will find a stream falling into the rock beach.

Relatively short connecting with the hiking paths above. This would be the end of the usual route. Or the start, as I have mentioned before.

If you continue the route becomes significantly more difficult. The scrambling areas are a bit more technical and without the full protection of the peninsula waves can become bigger. Full route going towards Sai Wan to be written about in another post.

Video with quite some of the things aforementioned.

Some more pics in Instagram.

Everything you should know before coasteering.