Beautiful stream with several high waterfalls and deep pools. Side paths available or very high in waterfalls climbs. Be careful with the latter.
- Beauty/fun: 6.5/10 Clean water, big waterfalls, deep pools, slightly bushy & potentially muddy exit.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 5.5/10 if taking the parallel side paths. There are a few high scrambling spots but with very good hand and footholds. Very polished slippery rocks in flatter areas. Increase to 9/10 if trying to go up almost all the waterfalls in your first try. There are good holds all the way up, but you need to be good at navigating left & right and climbing.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen, the Garmin track (going up Sai Keng Left, main Sai Keng & down Tung Wo Left Left) & the first check Garmin track (going up Cheung Ching Hang, upper part of Ma Sai, and downstream Sai Keng).
As already mentioned, I had hiked downstream this one in June. I was not planning to do so. But I got so angry with the parallel path, muddy slippery, that I decided to downstream this instead. Good option, because it’s a beauty and it was relatively easy to go down, using the side paths. I even spent some time checking if the main waterfall was climbable or not, going section by section. Video of that day. At 1:17 the side path to avoid the climb.
After some heavy rain I went again with Ben, after checking Sai Keng Left, in the previous post.
The entry from the road is quite close to the bus stop, here.
Just continue next to the water channel and faint path after. Video.
You will arrive at the stream and a tiny dam. Waterfalls start from there already. There are clear side paths, mostly on the right side. At 0:38 on the second video a pool that I short swim through (full waterproof backpack). Ben challenging himself with the wet rock short traverse. Just before arriving at the second biggest waterfall (B13 on the map, marked on my way down in June).
We passed it on its right side.
Later, there are several smaller pools and waterfalls until you arrive to the main one (1:53 – B12)
Really high. You can see how we climbed it skipping the initial section. Completely optional and definitely only for confident climbers. I wouldn’t have even attempted it without my first checking. And Ben is a climbing instructor. Be very careful and bring a long rope.
Higher there are still some smaller waterfalls and pools.
The flow little by little diminished and we left the stream where I had entered the previous time. Quite some ribbons guiding you initially. This time we decided to go down and once it was raining again we just followed the water down to the Left Left tributary of Tung Wo stream.
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