Small streams far in East Sai Kung Country Park. Clear Water, a few nice waterfalls, and a fun tiny gorge-like structure for those ready to go far for this.

  • Beauty/fun: 5.5/10 some of the waterfalls look very pretty after significant rain, but they are far less spectacular than Flying Phoenix and Dragons on the West Sai Kung country park or even the classic Double Deer which is close by. Recommended for those very experienced stream hikers that want to continue ✅ing all the decent streams in Hong Kong.
  • Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 5.5/10 very smooth slippery rocks in a few sections. Relatively easy scrambling even if trying to be a bit more adventurous than the ribboned route. A couple of confusing forks with quite some ribbons and bushy sections. The proposed route includes doing one stream downhill which adds a bit of difficulty. Not much as the second stream is easier.
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See full screen & the Garmin track.

You could visit these streams in different ways. In our case, we hiked Chek Hang 赤坑 up and down Pak Hang 北坑. Bus to Pak Tam Au and start walking on MacLehose section 2 reverse. Concrete path. Entry to the stream on the right side around here.

Ana getting into it.

The first initial section is flat and non-remarkable. Just a few man-made constructions. So if you want to go fast you can walk on the path instead and get into the stream itself next to the first waterfall.

Ops. Not much water. It was late September and it had rained in the week. But it seems it had not been enough. Ana was feeling a bit weak initially and the rocks were quite slippery, so we did it the easy way. You can pass that initial fall on its right. Just a little bit further up she was not able to climb further, so again we followed the ribbons

that bring you to the left side of the stream. Really easy on that part and we would not have been able to climb on the stream even if we had continued anyhow. There is a very high wall there before you arrive at a nice pools and smaller waterfalls section.

From this point onwards the waterfalls are significantly smaller or less steep and the stream gets kind of flat a few times.

The further up the more vegetation. I have marked with a red dot a fork we found. There are ribbons up the left side, but we decided to continue on the stream. It gets denser and denser, but not thorny. On top, the path is clear but quite bushy.

Descend and connect with the Luk Kwu Country trail, the same one we usually hike on after Double Deer. At this fork, we turned North

and a little later find the upper part of Pak Hang. Barely a creek when we were there. But in no time we arrived at this nice pool and waterfall and later a little gorge.

Fun to go through. I think that the ribbons mark a side path that separates from the stream for a while. But in our case, we descended directly within with all our valuables in fully waterproof bags.

There are several water catchment structures, but they looked not in use anymore. Broken pipes in a few sections.

Several pools that we crossed within. Ribbons on the sides. Stream getting flatter and flatter and with clear old man-made constructions first. Later a big camp… We were not expecting it. Reading about it later, it seems that it is an “unregulated” camp. Mixing people that go for leisure camping closer to the sea and homeless and others that have created a settlement within the woods and next to the stream. Not completely illegal, as the land is private and the owners have not complained about it. But the Government was not happy about the situation…

Just after we connected with the MacLehose section 2 here and

we hiked/jogged to Wong Shek pier. This might be the best option on a good weather day if it is not early. The first stop for all the buses in the area is there. It is a bit longer route though than going back to the starting point. Your call.

A web post from Sankala doing basically the same route with way better flow. They might have shortcutted a bit through the aforementioned mini fork up Chek Hang and avoided the mini gorge in Pak Hang.

Only clear video I found of the area.

Increase the difficulty by a lot of notches for this version. You better know your skills and shoe grip well before trying it + I am not very sure of the rock quality there. But the drone footage is good and shows you that beautiful initial part of Chek Hang.

Everything you should know before stream hiking.