Lamma Island: A Short Run To Food (6.5km)

Lamma is Hong Kong's second largest island after Lantau.  It is also nothing like the rest of the SAR retaining something of a hippy, off the grid type atmosphere.  It does get busy, especially at weekends as day trippers head out, but away from the main village ad after the beach, the crowds tend to thin out and at the southern end of the island, you will be almost on your own.  Lamma is also blessed with three different arrival / departure points so you can do loops or point to point type runs.

For simplicity's sake this run assumes that you take the ferry from Central and arrive on the northern end at Yung Shue Wan.  Whilst you will likely need to thread your way through the masses it is flat and a pleasant warm up before you have to start the climb away from the beach and down towards Lo So Shing Village.  From here you are going to keep with the coast dropping right down to Sok Kwu Wan and then on along the Lamma Family Trail to Mo Tat New Village.  Down by the beach you will find The Bay for excellent food and drink.
Distance: 6.5km
Type: Point to Point
Traffic: None
Refreshments: Yung Shue Wan, So Shing Village, Sok Kwu Wan and Mo Tat Village
Getting There: Take a ferry from Pier 4 and 6.  Return by Ferry from Mo Tat to Sok Kwu Wan and back to Central (or take a ferry to Aberdeen).

View this route on plotaroute.com

Tweet