Trail file
Difficulty 4/5 · Sai Kung East Country Park
MacLehose Trail Stage 2
One of the longest, most draining stages. Rolling Sai Kung interior — water and buses must be calculated.
13.5 km · 430 m ↗ · 5.5–8 h · Sai Kung
Chong Fat · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Distance
13.5 km
Elevation
430 m
Moving time
5–7 h
Clock time
6–9 h
Elevation profile
12–140 m
Trail map
22.400000, 114.350000
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Reconstructed schematic path (not a surveyed GPX)
How to go
- Outbound
- Usually continues Stage 1, or in from Pak Tam Chung. Not a short stroll.
- Return
- Long return to Pak Tam Chung. Budget daylight.
- Last transport
- Same Pak Tam Chung gate hours.
- Abort / bad weather
- Stop at unknown junctions and use a map. Do not follow swimmers down to a bay without a climb-out plan.
- From the hubs
- Same as Stage 1.
- Octopus / transfers
- Same as Stage 1.
All regions
- Start district
- Sai Kung
- End district
- Sai Kung
- Country park
- Sai Kung East Country Park
- Long-distance trail
- MacLehose Trail Stage 2
- Villages
- Tai Long Wan cluster
- Approx. grid
- Sai Kung East peninsula
- Management / emergency
- AFCD Sai Kung East.
Analysis
Exposure
4/5
Scrambling
2/5
Shade
Some forest between rises
Signal
Poor
Only at villages
Not family-friendly
Crux
Length and resupply, not one scramble.
Analysis
Sai Kung East’s linking stage. Treat it as a long day.
- Start
- High Island
- End
- Toward Pak Tam Chung / Sai Kung
- Scenery
- Interior hills, reservoirs, little city
- Fitness
- Long-distance.
- Season window
- Dry season. Summer drinks your water.
- Risk
- Bonk, missed last bus, summer heat.
- Kids
- Not the full stage.
- Older walkers
- Not the full stage.
Gear
- · 3 L, offline map, headlamp
Water
- · Tai Long villages (irregular).
Toilets
- · Gate; basic in villages.
Resupply
- · Sai Kung town.
Risk
- · Timing
- · Heat
- · Junctions