Looking for the fake slot canyon of Hong Kong or trying to visit all the mines we have? The only two reasons to recommend this place.

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You could take some extra transportation to reduce 2 km the walk, but in our case, we started at Tung Chung MTR station. Walk West to Tung-O Ancient Trail. A bit less than 2 km of concrete more and you will arrive at the Shan Tau public toilet, the lowest section of Nei San stream. Just continue approx 100 meters and turn left here.

Concrete for a while, dirt path then

and walking next to the pipeline after. Tons of signs all around there saying in Chinese that it is old and fragile, used to provide water to the village, and to be careful with it.

Eventually, you will arrive at the fork. The stream itself on the left with the pipeline and a little tributary on its right. Completely dry in early February.

The path was clear (2021) with a lot of ribbons. Steep, partly sandy, partly rocky within the small forest, then lower vegetation.

After getting into a fork we hiked down a little bit to see old structures

and an abandoned house.

Interesting.

Going up again, before the fork, the kitchen.

More bushwalking. Not thorny, but hard vegetation around. Long trousers recommended.

A few rocky sections

and arrive at the next fork. Head towards the airport

and turn NW seeing the HK-Zhuhai-Macau bridge under. Sandy slippery downhill. So move your “pat-pat” down.

There was a clear fork. Looking downhill the way that we would go up later on the right. We went on the left. No big difference. We started to see some openings. But the initial ones

are tiny. A few meters deep.

Arriving finally at a decent sized one. Marked on the map.

The tunnel branches off in two. First going to

the down part.

Short ending in a pool. I decided to go in.

Holding on the sides I was able to keep the water chest high, although was deeper in the middle. Nice looking “Dragon’s mouth” with a tiny continuous water trickle falling from above and rusty red wall in front.

Turn my head and realize that I did not need to get wet to arrive there 😅

Just go to the entrance. Climb to the upper tunnel and

in no time you arrive at the same place.

We walked a bit more around. There are several dug areas in the lowest part of the path with little hiker activity around. Nothing interesting. Finally, we went to the best-known spot. Also marked on the map.

I think local people call it Bridge Tunnel or something similar. With three different “bridges” connecting the walls. Here she after climbing to the lower one.

I prefer the name “fake slot canyon of HK”. Reminded us of those visited in Utah. Inside the tunnel now under the second and third bridges.

I have seen several people on Instagram and other social media apps climbing around. It is possible but tricky to get to the second bridge. Serious accident potential if you are not sure of what you are doing. The third

is way easier to get to.

Just go up the path on the left and carefully find your way onto it.

Not much more to see. So heading up again.

If you want to know more about this place here an article from the Industrial History of HK group.

Continue on the clear path among the bushes and eventually, you will arrive

at the Ngong Ping 360 Rescue Trail. You could just go down through the stairs back to the starting point (green line). In our case, we crossed under the cable car

and hike on the picturesque Nei Lak Shan Country Trail.

Connect with the concrete path heading down towards Tung Chung. Our initial plan was to go down through Tei Shek stream (light blue line), but finally, we did not do it as it was starting to get late. It takes me approx 1 extra hour to go through the stream down. It might be more if not confident with your shoes/skills.

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