A mixture of pretty rocks, short nice scrambling, and long pebble sections. Extra fun if you are ready to go long including Wong Mau Chau.

  • Beauty/fun: 6/10 nice texture and color rocks sections, within longer cobbles and small boulder areas. Wong Mau Chau used to be an isolated idyllic tiny islet. These days it can be packed with Instagramers heading there with boats to spend the day and take pics. The hiking paths back to the civilization offer great views but are steep and partly sandy.
  • Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 6/10 if just coasteering the peninsula and hiking to Tai Long Wan. It is not completely covered from swell and, in certain conditions, waves can be big. The additional swim is long, 800m, and you can find all kinds of boats there: speedboats, ferries, fishermen, yachts, police ships… Only recommended for good fast swimmers with buoys & neon colors (making yourself as most visible as possible).
  • The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)

See full screen & the Garmin track.

I continue trying to ✅️ out the very last coastal sections pending to coasteer. Janis, very good swimmer, was available. So we gave these two a try. Taxi to Wong Shek pier & ferry departing at 9:30 from there to Ko Lau Wan pier. Walk a tiny bit in the village North direction and onto the coastline. Tons of small boulder and cobbles sections spiced up with pretty marbled semi-slabs and nice bigger boulders and a few walls to scramble/climb.

All the area, including the climbing in the video.

Completely nonnecessary. Unless with big waves, all these climbs are avoidable with short easy wades (Enrique at 1:37 for example).

Nice water color and rocks arriving at Nam She Wan.

If I would have been alone and just only ticking out the route I could have gone back again to the starting point through the green line on the map. Hiked before several times. Easier, more open, each time. The last time in the opposite direction with Denvy in our really long way to Tuen Tsui and further. You could also go up the hill and down to Tai Long Wan or Chek Keng pier. This time we continued for a while on the same route as with Denvy. Nice rocks going towards Mai Fan Tsui.

Leave Enrique behind under the shade having a nap, coasteer this little part

and swim to Wong Mau Chau.

It is a tiny island.

Good weather weekend and therfore it was packed with people. We checked a bit around, swim back and

head up the step slope for the long return. Initial bushy start

Eventually connecting with the sandy paths, so characteristic of Sharp Peak. Then we screwed… Enrique &, mainly, Janis were complaining. Sunny, exposed path. I saw a hiking path heading down on the map and we followed it down. Error. Even if atop is relatively clear (2:15 in the video above), the lower you go the bushier it gets. Difficult to follow until it became a fight with the dense bush (more than shown in the video). Highly not recommended. We should have continued going up and connect with one of the main sandy paths heading down from Sharp Peak (marked on the map with the brown line). Eventually, after a long bush fight, we connected with it. Hike a bit more on well trodden paths

and end in Ham Tin.

Everything you should know before coasteering & open water swimming.