Absolutely not recommended unless you are into gardening and want to open your way up through bamboos & bush in a minuscule stream.
- Beauty/fun: 1/10 clean water. Nothing positive else 😅
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 3/10 for the section I hiked meanwhile you stay in the stream.
- The map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & the Garmin track (going up Wu Lei Tau, Wu Lei Tau Left Left, and Wall Mountain streams).
In August I was checking all the streams next to Wu Lei Tau (狐狸頭) and Pak Kong (北港). The main Wu Lei Tau stream is a really nice one that I added to the list to brings friends to (next post). Later I checked this, which definitely is not in the list 😅 Explaining it anyhow, in case it helps anyone.
While jogging towards Mountain Wall I found quite some ribbons here.
Orange way points on the map. Partly marked stream in Openstreetmap (although not named)+ ribbons + a rope + plenty of time and all my exploration gear on (full clothe cover, rope, pruners, etc). So up. Video.
There is a tiny dam just some meters above the fence and already the bush starts there. I could not see ribbons moving forward but yes human traces. There are man made rock walls around the stream. Old paddies. Half way through I started to see strange trash. There is no village above, but I was finding clothes, cooking utensils, pieces of a sleeping mat 🤔 Eventually I arrived at the source. What it looks a long abandoned illegal immigrant campground (1:46 in the video). There is a relatively flat area around the stream and I could find what I guessed used to be the tarps, cooking system, several old glass bottles, etc. Higher (1:55) the bamboos get into the stream. I tried to go to the sides (2:09), even try to find the way through the old paddies, but eventually (2:32), I decided to give up and downstream to the starting point.
A few months later I was back in the area to hike again the nice streams with a buddy. I arrived a lot earlier than her and I decided to spend an hour checking the hiking paths around. To see if all the ribbons made any sense. Green line on the map. Nothing special. Just a bush walk with some bamboo sections heading up to Kei Pik Shan 🤷♂️
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