Luk Wu waterfall revisited
Andrew James
This weekend, features editor Hamish, his girlfriend and I headed out to the Sheung Luk Stream in Sai Kung to revisit the waterfall at Kap Man Hang (which we've covered before, here). Unfortunately, the water was low and there wasn't much in the way of water falling. The river level was below the concrete slab at the top of the waterfall, so we decided (read: I convinced my friends) to continue up the relatively dry riverbed to where it meets up with a trail I spotted on a map earlier in the day (I swear, I really did see it).
The trail is rough at points, there are a few spots where we found ourselves clinging to brush to cross over water, hence a regular line of questioning of, "rate your anger on a scale of 1 to 10" to my friends. There was also the unspoken fear of snakes.
As it may seem like you're wandering out into nothing, the closed-in valley and rough trail, most of which is jumping from rock to rock in the river bed, makes for a really great hike.
Unfortunately, the last bit ends with climbing up the 30m waterfall by the reservoir, which isn't difficult in dry weather but you'd be screwed if it was wet.
The last bit is relatively easy: keep scrambling up and follow the concrete access stairs on the south side of the river and you'll be delivered back to Sai Kung Sai Wan Rd after a short hike up and over a hill.
As for us, a great time was had by all – as shown in the photo below.
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