Violet Hill, The Twins (Wilson Trail Section 2)

Route
Stanley Gap Road>The Twins>Tsin Shui Wan Au>Violet Hill> Hong Kong Park View

Recommendation
★★★☆☆

Difficulty
★★★☆☆

Length
5 KM

Duration
3 hours

Support
Supermarket at Hong Kong Park View (End Point)

Transport
Start Point
Bus (Citybus) No. 6 / 260 (Link Click Here), alighting at Stanley Gap Road
End Point
Bus (Citybus) No. 6 / 260 (Link Click Here)

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The Wilson Trail has been opened in 1996, the trail is named after David Wilson, the Governor of Hong Kong between 1987 and 1992. The first Section of Wilson Trail has a thousand stone steps ascent to the Twins (386 meters and 363 meters in height), and it also needs to attain the summit of Violet Hill with a height of 436 meters. But there are sceneries of the Stanley Peninsula and Tai Tam Reservoir along the trail, and the views make the first Section of Wilson Trail as one of the most popular hiking trails in Hong Kong.

Get off the bus at the stop of Wilson Trail, Stanley Gap Road
Let’s warm up to walk the thousand stone steps uphill

Walk toward the Ma Kong Shan (The Twins) View Compass

Grand view of Stanley Peninsula

Ma Kong Shan (The Twins) View Compass

The trigonometrical station of The Twins is located out of the Wilson Trail
It needs to walk a short dirt path nearby the distance post of W002

The trigonometrical station of The Twins (South Twins), with a height of 386 meters

The North Twins and Violet Hill

The summit of North Twins, no trigonometrical station here

Another thousand stone steps, but it is descent to Tsin Shui Wan Au (Repulse Bay Pass) this time

Tze Kong Bridge at Tsin Shui Wan Au (Repulse Bay Pass)

Follow the waysign of Wilson Trail to get ascent again toward Violet Hill

Tai Tam Reservoir

The Summit of Violet Hill, with a height of 436 meters
The hike will be a breeze downhill afterward

Follow the waysign of Wilson Trail to Hong Kong Park View

The first section of Wilson Trail is finished at Tai Tam Reservoir Road near Hong Kong Park View, if you like to finish the trail, turn left and walk downhill to the bus stop at Wong Nei Chung Gap Road

Or turn right to carry on the Wilson Trail Section 2