Cheung Chau

            The Great Outdoors Hong Kong !

Plenty of Scenic Spots on this Outlying Island

Despite its small size (about 3 sq km), Cheung Chau, with a population of 30,000 to 40,000 ranks as a perennial favourite with both locals and tourists. The island also plays host to the incredibly colourful Cheung Chau Bun Festival every year. Highlighting this event is the Bun Tower Scrambling Competition that attracts tourists from all over the world. This dumbbell shaped island with its quaint bank lanes and laid back lifestyle also boasts an abundance of scenic spots that make it a popular destination the whole year round.

Pay a visit to the island oldest temple

Fishermen have been living on Cheung Chau for hundreds of years. You can’t miss all the live aboard fishing vessels moored in the typhoon shelter as your ferry pulls into the pier. You’ll disembark on the Cheung Chau Ferry Pier and walk for several minutes and you will find yourself at Pak Tai Temple. It was built in 1783 and the court in front of the temple is the site of the Bun Tower Scrambling Competition, part of the annual Cheung Chau Bun Festival.


Wind surfing at Tung Wan

One of the island’s most famous residents, Lee Lai-Shan was the first Hong Kong resident to win a Gold Medal at the Olympics in 1996. There’s a sculpture her victory celebrating located adjacent to Tung Wan Beach!


Check out a 3000 years old stone craving

In 1970, a lucky geologist uncovered an ancient stone carving dating back 3,000 years under a slope near the Warwick Hotel and between Tung Wan and Kwun Yam Wan. It bore two sets of markings consisting of several curves surrounding a small groove. One of the sets was not fully exposed when the carving was discovered, but showed up clearly after the soil was cleaned away.

Hiking Trail near Kwun Yam Wan

In 1970, a lucky geologist uncovered an ancient stone carving dating back 3,000 years under a slope near the Warwick Hotel and between Tung Wan and Kwun Yam Wan. It bore two sets of markings consisting of several curves surrounding a small groove. One of the sets was not fully exposed when the carving was discovered, but showed up clearly after the soil was cleaned away.


How to Get There ?
To the starting point
Ferries from the first ferry at central pier 5 ply the central to Cheung Chau route both ways around the clock, it will take 40 mins for the clippers and 1 hours for the slower boat.