Cute, short, and easy route with additional scrambling opportunities. Several crowdless beaches en route even with the civilized path close by.
- Beauty/fun: 6.5/10. Nothing spectacular, but fun to coasteer on. There are side scrambling options to practice your skills. Water improves the further you go from Mui Wo and the village at the end.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 4/10. Relatively protected from winds and swell. Easy scrambling. Several potential easy early exits. No swims required, just a very short wade.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen and Garmin track.
Central (pier no. 6) to Mui Wo ferry. Walk on the road till you arrive at the very end.
And get ready for coasteering!
In no time walking on small beaches.
And scrambling on the rocks.
Nearby there are higher cliffs, but you do not need to climb them.
Just find the easiest “path” around.
Later another small beach, rocks, and old man-made structures where we have seen people camping too.
Scrambling down
Testing herself with one of those unnecessary but fun side scrambles. BTW, she is over 1.8m high and very slim. So every pic where she is looks smaller than reality 😉
Figuring out how to go down on the opposite side. Finally perfect for her to try the Chimney Technique.
Beach
and more beaches.
A little further you have again a connection with the concrete path (turn around the photosphere below).
The ladies jumped to the water several times to cool down. Hot even in late November. The only required wade was here. Too much vegetation on top of this small cliff and too much climbing technique required to pass it without falling under. So we jumped to the water, thigh-high in low tide.
Easy slabs.
And end the coasteering at Shap Long San Tsuen.
From there we took the road back to Pui O beach. Here we jumped on the sand,
cross the small river and enjoy the beach for a while before heading to the bus stop.
The outing was really short for us. In fast mode. To be remembered as the day that I was starting to feel recovered from my broken calcaneus and first time seeing a baby barking deer just meters apart.
Not bad 🙂
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