Surprisingly nice stream with city views. All the significant waterfalls are in the very first section, afterwords it is cute but a bit bushy.

See full screen & the Garmin track.

I was marking streams I hadn’t checked yet around Kowloon Peak area. Still quite a few small ones pending. I was busy in the morning, but Janis was ready to join me in the last sec. So short day out heading to the potentially best bet in the list.

Meet in the MTR. Exit at Sha Tin Wai & walk uphill. The initial concrete walk is avoidable with public transport to Pok Chuen path. Barely 4 minutes from the buildings is the stream. The entry used to be a bit tricky. Video.

But someone removed the barb wire where you can watch Janis going up above the fence. So easier. But be careful with all the metals around. Cross to the left side of the dam and in no time you are already in the first concatenated waterfalls (0:18). Already here the easiest is to jump into the short but deep pool, get completely wet, and climb the waterfalls. I wanted to keep the cameras dry. So I did it scrambling on the left side.

Slippery rocks starting from here already. To scramble up the last waterfall, just head around the big boulder on its left (0:48) & reconnect and climb using the roots. There is quite some more scrambling here around waterfalls and little tunnels. And then you arrive at a really picturesque opening (1:50) to the twin waterfall (2).

We found ribbons on its left. Don’t go to high though. I used the roots to go up the final part of the wall (2:15) meanwhile Janis was going to the top on the slightly muddy slippery slope and then fight back through the vegetation atop. Some more scrambling and slippery rocks & arrive at the bridge (3).

The second section of the stream moving forward is very different. Way more flat, without any significant waterfall.

But mossy cute and with clear water. As per what I read it was not the case before. Due to the trash and others thrown by the village atop. Crystalline when we were there.

The only issue was the thorny sections. At 0:41 in the second video for example there was a fallen tree from a recent typhoon and quite some thorns around. I had my pruners with me and full clothe coverage. So no big deal. Just tiny gardening to open the way for Janis to pass after. At 1:06 the fork marked on the map (5) and at 1:17 the ribbons guiding you out on the right (6). It did not look too interesting. I could see that the nearest path was quite far. We decided to continue on the stream and it was the correct decision. A buddy of us took that “exit” and told us that it was quite bushy and not interesting. In the stream we continued seeing quite some life. Mainly newts. Not specially bushy, compared with previous areas. In less than 20 minutes we arrived at the village.

From here you can hike back down to the starting point or go up & connect with Sha Tin Pass road. It is what we did to jog to our second stream of the day: Ci Sha.

Everything you should know before stream hiking.