Yuen Tau Shan, Kok Shan

Route
Leung King Estate>Leung Tin Au>Kok Shan>Yuen Tau Shan>Yick Yuen Road

Recommendation
★★★☆☆

Difficulty
★★★★★

Length
9 KM

Duration
5 hours

Support
Restaurants & Stores at Leung King Estate (start point)

Transport
Start Point
Light Rail Leung King Station (Link Click Here)
End Point
Light Rail Chung Uk Tsuen Station (Link Click Here)

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Yuen Yau Shan (also known as Ling To Shan) is located in western New Territories, with a height of 375 meters. Similar to the adjacent Castle Peak, the route is loose rock surface, high elevation and lack of shelter, but the difficulty of Yuen Tau Shan is even higher than Castle Peak, the completion of hiking Castle Peak and Yuen Tau Shan together is one of the “Qualification” route of advance hiking in Hong Kong, it is suggested to walk accompanied by experienced leaders.

lighting at Leung King Estate
The trail entrance nearby the ex-Kei Leung Primary School

Leung Tin Au, a lot of branches here
Walk the path on the right side to Yuen Tau Shan

Walk the right path

Kok Shan is the first Challenge

The summit of Kok Shan, with a heights of 394 meters

Overlooking the Castle Peak

Look back Kok Shan

Overlooking Yuen Tau Shan, keep walking up and down

Yuen Tau Shan, different from the loose rock surface, it is full of grasses shrubs on the mountain

A narrow ridge, no worry, it can be bypassed by other paths nearby

The summit of Yuen Tau Shan, with a height of 375 meters

The wide views of Yuen Long and Tuen Mun

The views of Deep Bay (Shenzen Bay)

There are two ways to descend
The path nearby the flagpole is the popular path as it can will attain the Ling To Monastery

But it will walk the path in the photo in this blog, as it is shorter to attain public transport

Nevigating by the high voltage tower on the right side in the photo
It will be concrete road after the electricity tower