An easy route full of beaches, varied rock formations, and colors, but full of plastics and not so clean water frequently. Good for beginners.
- Beauty/fun: 6.5/10. If there would be a bit less pollution this would be another fav beginner route. Nevertheless, the varied coastline and beaches deserve to be coasteered.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3.5/10 Protected from swell waves, short, no high scrambles required with short swims, several clear early exits. A mixture of grip levels on rocks, beware of the changes: from supper grippy to smooth and slippery.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & Garmin track.
Take MTR to Disney Resort station. Walk till the very end of Fantasy Road and find your way through relatively clear paths, next to the fence of the temporary quarantine facility, to the shoreline.
Turn left and time to start coasteering. Initially, you can stay dry for quite a while, just finding routes up and down the rocks.
In no time arriving at the first beach.
My first time there the water was crystalline. But with the port in front and not far from the Pearl River delta this can be so or the water can have quite some floating plastics and others. Not here this time.
There are coves and rocks in continuous succession in this route.
With scattered fishermen on the rocks quite frequently.
Arriving at the second beach.
Someone happy enjoying it with no one but us.
Fishermen have created different structures to go from rock to rock in certain areas.
And they have also set ropes around.
You could avoid them all by wading or scrambling relatively easily.
Eventually arriving at the spot where to start to swim. Several short ones.
And a bit more of scrambling
to avoid using those ropes. I did not use any myself.
Photogenic rocks.
And even more the sandy areas. When you could frame out the plastics…
Challenging herself to swim a bit less.
Several fun traverse like that one.
Arriving at
Fa Peng. The beach, a pier, the main hiking path.
On top you have the rock that gives the name to the area (花坪, cause supposedly looks like a flower vase. I think it looks more like a number 1).
A little further you have the bay of Tso Wan
and its pier. Concrete hiking “path” from here too.
Continue and you will find a picturesque location, but beware of the smooth slippery rocks.
A little further you can find what eventually will become an island. Still connected though.
Bigger size than what it looks from the opposite side.
More ropes you can avoid.
With the bridge, end destination, continuously in front.
Interesting rock formations every now and then.
Almost finishing.
There is an interesting monument in this area.
You could continue till the very bottom of the bridge, but instead, I took the easy concrete exit marked on the map.
Walk for a bit more than a kilometer to the bus stop of the Lantau Link Toll plaza.
May 2023: Doing it in the opposite direction with a bunch of colleagues and a few of the regular buddies. Including a swim to check the two islets of Ngom Hau Shek. Very pointy one of them with fun challenging scramble to the top on one side and a perpendicular wall on the opposite that would require full climbing gear.
The Garmin track including going after all around Disney to the Inspiration Lake.
July 29, 2020 at 10:31 am
Great post! We are complete newbies to coasteering but do enjoy stream trekking, we completed Wong Lung Hang up to the final waterfall. Do you think this is an appropriate route for our abilities? Thanks!
July 30, 2020 at 11:51 am
Hi there.
It will depend on your swimming ability. If you are comfortable in the water this is a good route to start. Everything explained here
https://hkoutdooradventures.com/difficulty/
There are a ton of early exits possible if you are not comfortable or want to shorten it up. Just download the maps to your mobile to be extra safe. Check all the links provided above, basically 😉
Enjoy