The North of Mui Wo offers a bit more interesting and longer route than the South but without the additional possible climbing/scrambling.
- Beauty/fun: 6.5/10. Nothing spectacular, but fun to coasteer on. A lot of beaches en route.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 5/10. Relatively protected from winds and swell. Easy scrambling if you include some easy wades. Several potential easy early exits. A long swim to avoid the explosive deposit.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track including also ending at Disney.
Central (pier no. 6) to Mui Wo ferry. Walk on the road till you arrive at the beach. At the very end, you will find this bathroom.
Time to start coasteering.
Low
scrambling
in the initial area.
A bit later
we found some slabs that required a bit more difficult scrambling.
The initial beach areas were surprisingly clean. I guess because this section is way more protected from wind and waves. And therefore less trash goes onto them.
A little bit further
You could early exit here, or cross to the opposite side without doing this cape. Tricky slab on the Easternmost part. Avoidable with a short wade.
On the North of the cape the Pier in Man Kok and beach. This was significantly less clean.
Although could be nice on the Northern side with the vegetation and rocks.
Wu Lo Chau islet in front.
Easy slabs and small beach before
arriving at the Kau Shat Wan government explosives depot.
This is a highly restricted area. So the safest way to avoid it is to swim the over 300 meters you have to the opposite rocks. In our case, we did it with the attentive and surprised stare of a security guard. He had shout to us from the fence that the area was a restricted and could not understand initially when I told him that we were going to just swim pulling the backpacks and asked him how far into the sea we needed to go. Finally, quite close.
Land in the rocks that you can see in the far end of the previous picture. Reapply some sunscreen, a snack, put the backpacks on again, and continue coasteering.
Arriving at another nice beach. This full of plastics though…
Just after we found a cliff that looked a bit tricky to pass. Tim found a rope and decided to give it a try…
Wrong option. Completely unnecessary risk. You need to descend on the opposite side through this wall. Wrong angled rocks (of not very good quality) that require quite good climbing skills if not relying on the ropes set by previous groups.
Bring your own 15-meter rope, so that you can easily retrieve it after the descend or just, simply, wade around the cliff. In this route, as in most, “do not follow the ropes set by previous hikers” advice was on point.
Continue easy coasteering. Here, in front, the pier connected with the road going up to the Trappist Haven Monastery.
Which could be another early exit. Short additional scrambling.
And another long beach, with D-Bay already in front and the concrete path connecting it with Mui Wo on your left.
There are some more rocks to coasteer on though. These ones include bolted climbing short routes.
And pretty colored shoreline + my fat finger…
Turn West,
get to the last beach and concrete path next to it,
and walk to the bus terminus or ferry pier.
In our case, we continued to Disneyland for a long day out.
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