Lantau Island ~ Mui Wo

Heard about trails and routes for hiking and biking in Mui Wo.
Can anyone let me know where they are?

Also saw a lot of bicycles at the pier, but no one's riding them...??

Cheers,
Adventure-Noobie

Yeah, good riding and hiking on Lantau.

Biking - either the gnarly stuff or simple road cycling up the Buddha. Rent your bike at Friendly Bikeshop if you don't have your own or don't want to take it. The bike shop opens at 10am officially though the owner, Jackie, does open earlier on a weekend. HK$150 to rent a pretty good bike for the day.

Hiking - you want to go up Sunset Peak and then Lantau Peak. There's only one road heading out of Mui Wo - it's an immediate climb off the main roundabout. Walk up that for about 25 minutes until you see a rest area on top of a hill with a sign saying "Fake becomes true if depends on you". Before that, there is turning right which leads towards Sunset peak. Hey, just go to a hiking shop and get a map though!

Good community on Lantau and around Jackie's bikeshop on the weekends. Hang out for 15 minutes and somebody will offer to take you riding and show you the tracks. Or check the biking forum also on this site

Hi BlueC,

Thanks for the info.

I have actually got some of my friends to go hiking with me, most likely next week. Will see how it goes~

Cheers,
Adventure-Noobie

Thanks BlueC and Noobie.

How busy does it get on the bike/hike trails? I have two younger kids, would they be able to bike the paved paths on Lantau; are they on a moderately steep incline?

Also, are there any other recommended trails on the other outlying islands? I've seen pictures of kayaking in Hong Kong where people are taken to caves and tunnels, do you know where they are?

Hey guys,

I was looking at older posts (from '07) and found this in the New Potential [biking] Trails discussion:

On Lantau Island:
* Big Buddha DH trail i.e. Shek Pik country trail
*Keung Shan Country Trail and associated trails in and around Man Cheung Po - Me and AndyM used ride up there a lot when we lived on LT
*The Time Machine (only Joking)
* The trail around the west side of Shek Pik reservoir from the water services road at the head of the rsvr to the dam.
* The trail from Pak Keung Au to Nam Shan (part of S Lantau Country Trail)
*The coastal section of Lantau Trail from the Fan Lau end of the catchwater around to Tai O via Fan Lau and Yi O - not great *mountain biking* but a fun day out.
* The short coastal section between Sham Wat and Tai O that dips inside the LT north CP boundary (not currently legal, but ridden by everyone who rides Tung Chung- Tai O.

In the New Territories:
* Tai Lam area- the three sections of Yuen Tsuen Ancient trail as follows:
'The Hornet', 'Respect the Pipe', Won Ton (Yuen Tsuen Ancient Trail) then turning onto 'Yuen Tsuen Country Trail' back to Wing Kay Bridge. These sections combined with the existing *legal* trails.
* Kap Long DH trail
* The section of WSD road between Ho Pui reservoir back up to the legal trails.
* The 200m section of WSD road leading out from the first dam at the end of the coastal singletrack around Tai Lam Chung rsvr back down towards So Kwun Wat.

Hong Kong Island:
*Lady Clementis ride from Peel Rise to right around to Wong Nai Chung Gap.
* Sir Cecils ride from HKCC to Braemar Hill area.
* The rideable trails around Bramar Hill
* Hatton Road from Po Shan Rd up to Lugard Road.
* Aberdeen Reservoir Road from Wanchai Gap to Aberdeen - a great shortcut across the island.
* The trails off Clementis at the head of the upper Aberdeen reservoir and around Bennetts Hill.
* Xylophone trail from Po Shan road to Queen Mary Hospital.
* A couple of sections of the HK trail between Pinewood battery and Pok Fu Lam reservoir.
* The WSD roads Pok Fu Lam reservoir road, and the roads connecting to Peel Rise.

Some of the above on HK Island particularly are good riding, a few sections are just useful ways of getting to trails and/or up to the peak.

Has anyone done any of these recently? Any recommendations?


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