South Lantau Road

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    bus: 1 from Mui Wo & Tai O, 2 from Ngong Ping, 3 from Tung Chung

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Just under 5km southwest of Mui Wo, Pui O is the first of several coastal villages along South Lantau Rd. Pui O has a decent beach, but as it's the closest one to Mui Wo it can get very crowded. The village has several restaurants, holiday flats galore and, in season, stalls renting bicycles. There's also a decent restaurant right on Pui O Beach called Ooh La La!.

Cheung Sha (Long Sand), at over 3km Hong Kong's longest beach, is divided into 'upper' and 'lower' sections. Upper Cheung Sha, with occasional good surf, is the prettier and longer stretch and boasts a modern complex with changing rooms, toilets, showers and a snack bar. Lower Cheung Sha village has a beachfront restaurant, Stoep Restaurant. The beach at Tong Fuk, the next village over from Cheung Sha, is not as nice, but the village has holiday flats, several shops and a popular roadside barbecue restaurant called Gallery. To the northwest is the not-so-scenic sprawl of Ma Po Ping Prison.

The trail along the water-catchment area just east of Shek Pik Reservoir, with picnic tables and barbecue pits, offers some of the easiest and most peaceful walking on Lantau. From here you can also pick up the switchback trail to Dog's Tooth Peak (539m) from where another trail heads north to Lantau Peak.