Eagle's Nest Nature Trail Information

Beginning near the 4.5 Milestone on Tai Po Road, Eagle's Nest Nature Trail is a circular route orbiting around the mid-slopes of Eagle's Nest (Tsim Shan). The first interesting flora coming into view is Creeping Psychotria, an epiphytic plant that creeps on trees and rock surface. Gazing down, you see an emerald sweep on the right: Kowloon Reservoir. Completed in 1910, the reservoir was the first water storage facility in Kowloon. Together with the nearby Shek Lei Pui Reservoir, Kowloon Reception Reservoir and Kowloon Byewash Reservoir, it forms the Kowloon Group of Reservoirs that boast a total storage capacity of 2.87 million m3.

A little way forward, the trail passes through some groves of Shiuying Bamboo, a flora species named after renowned botanist Dr. Hu Shiuying. Up ahead, in front of a graveyard, you can look wide across Central New Territories, where the uplands of Kam Shan, Smugglers' Ridge and Smugglers' Pass, Tai Mo Shan, Needle Hill and Grassy Hill roll and billow far into the distance.

This region is frequented by wild macaques. Visitors are cautioned not to feed or disturb them.The hill in front is a famous roosting place of the Black-eared Kite, which originates the name Eagle's Nest.