While Sok Kwu Wan is familiar as a coastal village dominated by seafood restaurants, it’s also a good starting place for an easy hike to explore the relatively little visited, wild south of Lamma – which is like a corner…
Soaring above the new town that bears its name, Ma On Shan – Horse Saddle Mountain – is among Hong Kong’s most distinctive and highest peaks. And while also near the expanding Sai Kung town, it makes for outstanding hiking through…
Double Haven is among the most beautiful areas in Hong Kong, and a ferry ride through here to the village of Lai Chi Wo on the west shore makes for a wonderful outing, along with a chance to learn about…
Early on a fine summer morning, Hoi Ha Wan – “Bay Beneath the Sea” – seems wonderfully serene, with the calm waters reflecting Hoi Ha village’s cluster of pale, three-storey buildings, which are set low on otherwise verdant hillsides, beside…
Lantau Peak There’s a steep trail with flights of rough rock steps to the summit of Lantau Peak, at 934 metres Hong Kong’s second highest peak, and highest on Lantau Island. Though you can start at a high plateau reached…
With its traditional hamlets, old woods, setting in a basin ringed by hills within Sai Kung Country Park, Sham Chung should be one of the jewels in the crown of wild Hong Kong. Instead, it has suffered environmental vandalism, and…
Think of beaches on Hong Kong Island, and I guess you first picture beaches with main roads right beside them – Repulse Bay, Deep Water Bay, even Stanley. They’re fine if you just want to drive up or hop off…
Though it doesn’t boast Hong Kong’s best beach, Tung Ping Chau is a place where you can sometimes stroll the sand and feel almost like Robinson Crusoe – though you have to ignore the rural Shenzhen coastline little more than…
Step off the ferry to Cheung Chau, and you might think, Woah – this place looks as crowded as Mong Kok! But if you’ve come in hopes of finding some peace and quiet, don’t just turn tail and hop on the next…
In this year that’s remarkable in Hong Kong for too many of the wrong reasons, it’s surely vital to try and find at least some brief escape from the perils of coronavirus – and so much more. Happily, there are places…