Small stream, easy and cute. It would be a really nice ending for a short visit to the badlands if it were not for the troublesome exit if you are following the signs around.
- Beauty/fun: 4/10 cute little stream with water full year long. Only small waterfalls and several pools.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3/10 very little scrambling required, a bit of bush walk on top and a couple of tiny sections later if trying to keep your shoes dry. Easily doable downhill.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track.
As mentioned in the previous post, after scrambling up to Castle Peak I brought Enrique down Mong Hau creek (望后溪).
From the peak take one of the several sandy paths around, the green line, and head to what should be the top of the stream. Late January after quite some months of dry weather. So dry on top and a bit bushy, not thorny. But it took me just a few minutes to find the stream itself. A trickle of water initially and the first signs of hikers.
All the stream is gently sloped but the bush and forest around are not too dense. Fun and easy first stream for Enrique.
In the upper right picture, he descending next to the biggest waterfall in the summertime. Barely a couple of meters high with a nice pool to cool down then. A couple of hiking paths cross just above it. So if you wanted to avoid the initial section you could start here instead following the purple line that I took the previous day with Tyler and James.
The second section is nicer with better flow and more peculiar rock formations. But still pretty flat.
Eventually, we arrived at this water-gathering structure and a road next to a landfill with clear signs that said not to continue on it… You can see that quite some people anyhow do it. For example in this video at 12m42sec
Your choice. We were not in a rush and Enrique was OK following me offpath. The first approach through the Mong Fat street west section was unsuccessful. Too bushy soon, thorny a bit later. Go back to the stream again and meanwhile he was having a short snack break I checked around and I found a way up the hill (Shek Kwu Shan). Initially on a side tributary, easy scramble. Later a bit of easy bush walk and
connect with a well-hiked sandy path and go down around here.
We ended up anyhow on “the wrong side of a fence”. With a guard wondering where we were coming from. She did not say anything though and we continued till the bus stop from where head back home.
Wildconqueror web post where you can see some more pics and their road exit too.
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