Elephant Hill, Lion Hill and Tiger Hill are the three hills in northern Lantau named after animals. This route is not dangerous, you don't have to overcome sheer cliffs. However you have to tackle thick bushes and missing paths. In certain parts, the path is totally gone although you can find some old ribbons unevenly scattered around the route. Some ribbons are very far away from each other. People with little bush-dashing experience may get lost quite easily.
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5M
Starting from the Tai O bus stop, we have to first cross this 新基大橋.
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5M
Start trekking up.
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40M
This is an old land mark indicating the boundary of colony Hong Kong and Mainland China in late Qing Dynasty.
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185M
What a rock! Becareful when you climb up this.
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380M
Come on! Keep walking.
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420M
This is the top of Elephant Hill (象山).
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405M
From Elephant Hill peak, you have to move down to a valley before you arrive at another peak. When you descend to around 350M, the bush become very punishing. I can say the path is totally vanished.
After some hard work , we finally arrived at another peak.
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390M
The video here showed the route with tall bushes, but let me assure you the most tedious part was not recorded in the video.
When you are about to reach concrete road, the path ends up on the upper edge of a huge landslide site. I would suggest you not to try to scale down this landslide cave. You should follow the ribbons on the right which will lead you to Sum Wat Road safely.
