Maclehose Trail

Students and trip leaders will fully plan, resource and organise themselves to undertake a 4 night and 5 day expedition.

This is the Grandaddy of the Hong Kong hikes. An unforgiving 100km hike up and down some of Hong Kong’s highest peaks and through its most stunning landscapes. Beautiful beaches and coastlines, urban views over Kowloon, ridges, peaks, forests, jungles, reservoirs, grassland, monkeys, this hike has a lot. It’s not to be taken lightly though, you’ll be covering over 7000m in elevation gain, that’s close to hiking sea level to the summit of Mount Everest. It’s recommended you take this one east to west from marker M001 in Sai Kung to M200 in Tuen Mun, although we met others on the trail happy enough doing it in the opposite direction. 

We did this in one night and four days although 3 days is achievable for the super fit. 6-7 days would offer a more leisurely walk although bear in mind, the longer you take, the heavier your pack. That’s your conundrum right there, a balance will always have to be struck.