Tsuen Kam Au to Tai Tong Information

The hike begins at the Twisk Country Parks Management Centre, Tai Mo Shan, from where you can walk along the forested Stage 9 of the MacLehose Trail. The trail is lined with tall shady trees and walking is most relaxing. Passing the rather steep uphill forest trail at the beginning, you have a panorama of Tai Mo Shan. There is a sharp contrast on the two sides of the ridge: the crowded Tsuen Wan urban areas and the well-vegetated Tai Lam forests. After passing the trail intersection at the Tin Fu Tsai Fire Lookout, take the forest trail on the right to Tin Fu Tsai village. The trail from this section to Kat Hing Bridge is a downhill path. Be careful of some of the steep slopes. Arriving at the Kat King Bridge on Chat To River, you can rest on the grassy area -and then, on the right, follow the uphill forest trail to the Tai Tong Barbecue Area.

A vegetated cover would greatly increase the resistance of the ground surface to erosion. On a bare soil surface,the force of falling raindrops would cause rainsplash in which soil particles are lifted and deposited into new positions. On a bare sloping ground surface, splash erosion tends to shift the soil slowy downhill.The soil surface becomes much less permeable to water as air spaces in soil are sealed by these shifted soil paticles, conseqently, both the velocity and depth of the surface runoff would increase thus intensifying the rate of soil removal and forming deep gullies.