Various difficulty slabs to scramble on, mini caves in the middle of the jungle, impressive views, and quite some peculiar rocks in one go.

  • Beauty/fun: 6.5/10 carefully navigating the slabs is challenging fun. The caves are small but entertaining and unexpected within the jungle. Nice views and peculiar rocks all around.
  • Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 7/10 due to the navigation required on the slabs. Mainly the second one, where you could get into dangerously steep & high walls. The rest includes slightly sandy slippery areas and a downstream. So the most diverse grip demands for your shoes. I would suggest using new approach shoes, with at least some marked lugs. Or go my way. I wore two pairs: old flat Five Ten on the slabs and stream and NB Summit for the rest. A 20m rope highly recommended, just in case.
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See full screen & the Garmin track (including Yuen Tun North pit).

I found from the same guys of the Tai Ho slab in Lantau this post with another slab in the “border” between Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan. I realized then that I had seen those hills from the bus coming from Tuen Mun. But I had never explored that area. Tons of annual leave days still in December to burn, so time to check this. I spent a couple of days around before leading Denvy and Will there. The map above and the main explanations focused on this third day with which I think is the most fun route for our liking.

Start at Tuen Mun Road Bus Interchange (Towards Tuen Mun). Go down. WC if you need. Cross the tunnel under the highway and on your right, you should see ribbons already here.

Most are guiding you toward the green line on the map. It is the easiest way. Mostly on concrete just above the highway until you arrive at a steep sandy slope.

A lot of hikers on that path the three times I was there. All of them heading to the Instagramy rocks further East.

Just a bit further North you have the brown line. A bit thorny and doesn’t offer any additional views or else. I would suggest you therefore to walk just a bit more on the road and find a path just up these stairs next to the small Tin Hau temple.

Less thorny than the previous and with a very little sloped first slab.

Go up, pass next to the Weather Radar station

and sandy paths. We went up this way mainly to be able to see the slab from above.

Go down a slightly sandy + rock non-path (but relatively easy to find) to the connection with the green line. Aforementioned steep sandy slope, very little time on the concrete and find the way up to the slabs here.

It seems that these have been named 大欖角坡板 Tai Lam Kok slab (slope board) or something similar.

A video showing this first part. If you are a good enough climber you do not need to go to the stairs, as they do.

At 1m12s you can see them taking the super easy slab out (green line on the map). In our case, we continued further left, crossing a bit of vegetation to find further slabs. Decide how comfortable you are scrambling in the area. I have gone through three different options there ending all the time on this big boulder.

Where you can find already ribbons and a short tunnel to cross through before connecting with the main hiking path in the area. I have marked a purple fork and a path out just a little further (not currently in Openstreetmaps). As under this point, there are several “Instagramy” rocks.

You can see quite some people around these days taking pics.

In our case, we just went downhill there to connect with the uphill path heading to the cave area. It was a huge surprise when I found them on the first day going downhill. Completely unexpected. There is a tiny man-made shelter. Greatly appreciated if anyone who knows its history let us know about it in the comments below.

And very close to it the above entry to the mini cave. Deep enough to need to use my torch to illuminate around.

It gets tight once inside and at one of the upper exits. Easier on the left. But we were having fun. So the tight exit and check around a bit more. I have marked, a bit lower, another even smaller cave that I found the first day. There might be more within the jungle. According to the ribbons, there are more and more people visiting around, so more chances of being found. We continued uphill and headed towards more slabs. Actually, from the last photosphere, you could see that area. Just turn and looking NE direction.

To go there, a clear hiking path for a while, head down till 桃坑峒西坑 stream. A few meters later a bushy path with quite some ribbons heads up towards To Hang Tung South Cliff. The main path is well marked and you could scramble up to the top following ribbons. In the next three pics starting from the bottom and clockwise: Denvy going up the aforementioned “path”. Will following me to the right side on the not-very-clear entry to the slab. There were no ribbons, but we could intuit hikers having passed before. And bingo!

On the map, I have marked a few black routes that I have done. But you are basically on your own here. You will need to decide which route is the best/safest for you. Will tried to go further right, but the upper section did not look safe and he came back to where we were climbing ourselves.

Eventually, we ended up on slightly sandy ground and with very weak sandstone-like rock. Extra careful Denvy finally got up to a safe spot through the small trees. Post from wildconquerors, found after we were there, that might give you further clues. In the video, at 7m54sec you can see the slab too.

Approx the route we climbed through. In any case, I reiterate, here you are on your own. Be careful and find whichever looks like the safest way for you to go up and have the rope handy in case you need to descend and try another option.

Once atop an easy hiking path with views to the reservoir and the sea.

You could end up going to To Hang Tung itself and down the stairs back to the road. These guys were OK with a bit more fun. Therefore we went downhill back again, seeing the slab we had been scrambling on to

the aforementioned 桃坑峒西坑 To Hang Tung West pit. Easy dry downstream. In summertime it must look nice, with several pools and waterfalls.

They walk the road down back to the Bus Interchange. I continued jogging and exploring a bit further. Places to be written about in a future post.

Everything you should know before stream hiking.