One of the many small streams in Hong Kong island with little to no flow most of the year. Only recommended for the “I want to see them all”.
- Beauty/fun: 2/10 a creek within the woods, after significant rain a couple of small waterfalls and pools, and little more. Not thorny but bushy and potentially muddy exit to the main path.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3/10 it can be slippery when wet, no high scrambling, relatively easy navigation (follow GPS & tons of ribbons for the exit)
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track.
A reader had asked me about this stream. I could remember passing next to it and it looked quite uninteresting. But it is true that it was clearly marked on the Openstreetmaps with an exit path relatively on top. A clear sign of previous hikers. I had no better plan and I was going to be around. So I gave it a try.
I was a bit distracted and I got down a bus stop too early (in case you look at the Garmin track). You could come down at the stop just next to it. The lower part of the stream is next to the Westernmost point of Lo Fu Shan catch water.
Actually, the previous time I was here was running on the catch water (The Twins’ one, 160m that there is none in between) and coming down through the violet line creek on the map above. If coming from the road you will see an old building, the catch water, and the stream. When I was there in late September it was almost dry.
Most of the stream is within the woods and there is only one open space with a waterfall (after significant rain). But pretty small.
The higher you go the denser the vegetation. I passed the exit on the map initially, but just a few minutes later I started to see quite some trees down and thorny plants around… And decided that it did not deserve the effort. A possible 100m elevation gain to the top of the hill could be a pain. So I went back down again to the fork. Easy to find with the GPS, not so clear ribbons (I moved one to try to make it so). Head up and in little time on a bushy path that I had hiked before.
Continuously within the low woods. A narrow steep path that can be muddy after rain. But with good tree holds. Eventually, you arrive at the main Wilson trail path and,
in my case, I run down to the road.
If you ask me: go to other streams around instead. Tiger stream, Cheung Lin, or others.
Leave a Reply