Easy, easy with several beaches en route on the West coast and nicer rocks and a bit more scrambling on the East side. A good option to test beginners.
- Beauty/fun: 6/10. Nothing spectacular, but fun to coasteer on. A lot easier than the South routes. A few uncrowded beaches. A few nice rock areas. Tons of other things to do around.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3.5/10 for the West side, 7/10 for the East if trying to do it completely dry but for the swim to Luk Chau. Relatively protected from winds and swell. Tons of potential easy early exits in the West. Shortish on the East.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & Garmin track.
Early May meet in Central and take the ferry to Yung Shue Wan Pier. A little walk on the concrete paths to Lamma Power Station Beach.
And start the really easy coasteering
up till Hung Shing Yeh beach.
Just after the first relatively high scrambles. Easy anyhow.
After the main beach.
you find several more, with rocky areas in between.
Arriving at Lo So Shing Beach through further easy small rocks.
The coastline moving forward becomes more complicated and with no easy exits for a long while. Good for a route on its own. Therefore we went up to the main hiking path till a shelter and down through a quite clear path around here.
The path was simple to follow, even with some unnecessary set ropes. On the bottom abandoned buildings
of the Asano Cement plant. Industrialhistoryhk has an article that talks about it. Asbestos and other possibly harmful construction materials used there. I wouldn’t check around. Just move to the coastline directly, with the iconic structure.
Moving forward boring man assembled rocks next to the YMCA facilities.
Mainly for me to remember, the day conditions. Usually significantly calmer all around this route vs average Hong Kong.
Once you leave the YMCA area behind the rocks improve.
Sloped and relatively easy
until you arrive here.
For beginners, jump to the water and short swim. If ready for more action you can keep dry by scrambling high.
You will need to pass up on the left here. High.
A little bit more of a walk and the compulsory swim to arrive at Luk Chau.
Interesting small island
with good views to Hong Kong Island and best scrambling in the whole route.
Swim back to the main island and time to finish the outing. There is a dog sanctuary in the area that it can be a bit tricky to go through sometimes, around the brown line. The rest of the guys did it that time with no major problem.
I continued for a little while on the coastline. Houses coming down to almost the water, piers, a few sandy areas.
But soon I realized that I had left my sunscreen behind and decided to stop here and run back to find it.
I will check all the rest of the coastline another day, although does not look interesting at all by my previous inspections while trail running.
September 8, 2022 at 12:08 pm
We did that trail only from Yung Shue Wan to Sok Kwo pier.
Dry and easy until Tit Sha Long where we found a Techno rave with a few drunky but nice people.
The DJ was playng some melodic comercial techno. Hopefully the party was ending.
We camped there and then went to the next unamed rocky beach.
From there to Hung Shing Yeh beach we found some exposed, but easy scrambling and at one point I used a rope to assist my partner to get down a rock cliff.
Super fun… thank you very much.