Nice colored rocks, highlighting the contrast of the very civilized Mainland in one side of the sea and old and partly abandoned Hong Kong on the other.
- Beauty/fun: 4/10 nice colors, a tombolo. Very flat, little scrambling, almost a coastal walk but for the wet sections.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3.5/10 no high scrambling, several early exits, possibility of taking ferry back, completely protected from swell
- Map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & Garmin track.
Getting closer to the Fist Challenge another easy route in a winter day. MTR to Fanling station and from there 56k minibus to the last stop in Luk Keng. I wanted to test Denvy. Therefore road and initial concrete path running.
After the concrete promenade, time to start coasteering. Soon seeing the police buoy fence.
And diverse colored rocks. In the upper pic you can see (if you zoom) a small pier. Optional swim there. Otherwise, it is a muddy wade around that small bay. A little further Chi Ma Lung cave.
Not especially deep, but curious with the open ceiling with the tree coming up through. A picture with extreme wide-angle. More nice colored rocks on Sam Kok Tsui.
Mini swim in Tai Sham Chung. Depending on the tide just half body and a little later the tombolo, Cheung Pai Tau. At the very end it has a tiny lighthouse to mark this dangerous area for the boats.
More combinations of sedimentary rocks
and picturesque places. Some plastic rubbish around too, as usual…
We got almost fully wet to arrive at Cheung Shek Tsui. A small island that required some initial wading and
later a real swim to go back again to the peninsula. An old pipeline in all this area. My guess: the one that used to provide either electricity or water to Kat O. Not in use now.
Continue for a while on more diverse colored rocks,
continued by the sandy / muddy flattish area before arriving at Lai Chi Wo.
There is a ferry pier here, serviced regularly on weekends. In our case, we just stopped in the village to buy a few snacks and we started our way back through the ancient path. Running back towards Luk Keng.
Clear and well maintained. Passing next to picturesque ancient trees
and villages. Full loop back to the starting point. Although you could take different routes out. Ending at Bride’s Pool for example.
Even with seawater at 19C and air temperature well below the 20s, we were able to do it with no neoprenes. Fast coasteering in this kind of ground was easy and no problem to run with the waterproof backpacks on. So we were ready to try the longest route of the year…
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