Trail file
Difficulty 5/5 · Sai Kung East Country Park
Sharp Peak (Nam She Tsin)
Sai Kung’s spike. Not a path — a scramble. Scree, exposure, no easy mental retreat. Experienced parties only.
12 km · 468 m ↗ · 6–9 h · Sai Kung
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Distance
12 km
Elevation
468 m
Moving time
6–8 h
Clock time
7–10 h
Elevation profile
8–468 m
Trail map
22.429000, 114.371000
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Reconstructed schematic path (not a surveyed GPX)
How to go
- Outbound
- Pak Tam Chung gate (MacLehose start) → taxi or bike to Sai Wan Pavilion / Tai Long Wan Road. Weekend special buses. No MTR. Do not illegal-park outside the gate.
- Return
- Ham Tin or Sai Wan reverse to Pak Tam Chung. Last taxi/special bus depends on crowd. Keep a 90 min buffer or you risk a night out.
- Last transport
- Pak Tam Chung specials and taxis vanish before dusk. Do not gamble that a car will appear.
- Abort / bad weather
- Rain, fog, or a slowing teammate: terminate at Sai Wan or Ham Tin. Do not summit. Paths collapse after typhoons.
- From the hubs
- Central/TST ~2–2.5 h to Pak Tam Chung (MTR to Diamond Hill/Hang Hau then bus/taxi). Sai Kung town is supply, not the trailhead.
- Octopus / transfers
- Bus/taxi Octopus or cash. No e-hail if signal dies — pre-arrange the return taxi.
All regions
- Start district
- Sai Kung
- End district
- Sai Kung
- Country park
- Sai Kung East Country Park
- Long-distance trail
- Near MacLehose Stage 2; not itself an official stage
- Villages
- Tai Long Sai Wan, Ham Tin, Tai Long Wan
- Approx. grid
- 22.43°N 114.37°E
- Management / emergency
- AFCD Sai Kung East. Rescue is remote — 999, quote Sharp Peak / Ham Tin.
Analysis
Exposure
5/5
Scrambling
5/5
Shade
Zero shade on the peak
Signal
Unreliable on the peak; often none in the bowls
Village shops; none on the spike
Not family-friendly
Crux
Last 200 m of exposed scree. The last honest abort is the saddle.
Analysis
Sai Kung’s final exam. Sand, grass and the drop fatigue more than kilometres. Only with a retreat plan.
- Start
- Tai Long Wan (Sai Kung) or Ham Tin
- End
- Tai Long Wan
- Scenery
- High Island, the four bays, open sea
- Fitness
- Mountaineering-party fitness.
- Season window
- Nov–Mar. Summer heat exhaustion is the real summit. Winter northerlies cut.
- Risk
- Falls, heatstroke, missing last transport; never in rain.
- Kids
- No.
- Older walkers
- No.
Gear
- · 3 L water, gloves, optional helmet
- · GPX / offline map — not one post
- · Headlamp, insulation, first aid
Water
- · Sai Wan and Ham Tin kiosks. None on the peak.
Toilets
- · Pak Tam Chung gate; basic in villages.
Resupply
- · Sai Kung town is the last full resupply.
Risk
- · Scree falls
- · Heatstroke
- · Missing last transport
- · Lost at junctions
- · No in rain