Lai Chi Wo Information

After starting from the Bride's Pool bus terminus ,go across Bride's Pool Nature Trail to Wu Kau Tang. Walk from there to Sam A Tsuen via Lai Tau Shek. Go downhill along the path, where there is delightful scenery around Yan Chau Tong. Walk from Sam A Tsuen to Lai Chi Wo via Siu Tan. The coastal mangrove forest grows well here, and the buttress roots of Looking-glass trees deserve inspection. The uphill section from Lai Chi Wo to Fan Shui Au is demanding, but at the top gap there is rest area with seats. From there, turn left and follow the path uphill via A Ma Wat. Then go downhill and reach Tin Sam village, and afterwards Wu Kau Tang - where an old village route brings you back to the Bride's Pool bus terminus.

Lai Chi Wo was one of the most affluent villages in the Northeastern New Territories, where a population of mainly Hakka origin lived and thrived. Today, only a few permanent residents remain, but old village houses are well preserved and the fung shui wood behind the village flourishes as it did in the past. Lai Chi Wo is a good place to study Hong Kong's rural heritage, and the biodiversity of forest habitats. Not far from the village is an intertidal mudflat formed by sedimentation. Where it meets the land you find the largest field of Coastal Heritiera ( Heritiera littoralis ) in Hong Kong, while on the verge near the sea other mangroves grow.