Cheung Chau offers a picturesque coastline perfect for coasteering. The North section is an intermediate route with nice scrambling.
- Beauty/fun: 7.5/10. Nice rock formations, small beaches and some nice walls for scrambling.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 7/10 One clear early exit possible mid way. No high cliff jumping/scrambling required with minimal swimming and wading. Ferries and big boats pass around the Northern shore which can create waves even in the most calm days.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
And the Garmin track.
The usual transportation includes ferries departing from Central every 30 minutes (slow approx 55min and fast approx 35min, every hour).
Decide the direction how you want to coasteer the route. The safest would be counterclockwise. That way you would be doing the most difficult (and interesting) sections first, when you are less tired. In our case, we did it clockwise. That way, we hiked the non-coasteering part first and the guys could have shower directly on Tung Wan beach before lunch with other friends.
From the ferry pier, we headed North. You can walk around the perimeter of the island on Cheung Kwai road or go up the hill and down to the small beaches. Continue on the concrete till you arrive at the end (NW) of Cheung Pak road.
Find your way to the rocks on the right side, next to a construction/refuse site. We encounter quite some dogs there. Move slowly and let them behind.
In no time we started seeing interesting rocks.
And tiny beaches.
You can find several tunnels to go through.
It reminded me Chung Hom Kok with its tafoni too.
Just before turning
into Tung Wan Chai bay. This area is a bit flatter,
although you have a fun chimney like scramble (watch video below at 1m56s) if you want to avoid swimming just before arriving at Coral Beach.
The bay continues being easier until you turn Westward again into the most interesting rock formations and scrambling.
Far still you can see the beach, final destination.
You need to swim several times here or climb significantly higher than before to avoid it.
More layered structures.
And last scrambling with birds above
before arriving at the concrete structure leading to Tung Wan beach.
Video by Tyler.
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