Day trips from Hong Kong: 6 epic adventures
Some day trips repay the early train. Plenty don't. These 6 day trips from Hong Kong are the ones that earn the hours, and each comes with an honest note on what you're really getting.
Cheung Chau IslandFreeA car-free island under an hour by ferry from Central Pier 5, and the easiest escape from the city's noise: seafood stalls along the harbourfront, a small sandy beach on the far side of the narrow isthmus, and an easy coastal… Directions
MacauFreeMacau is the day trip that does not feel like one, because you leave Hong Kong entirely: it is a separate region with its own border, so you carry your passport and queue at immigration both ways. Directions
Sai KungFreeThe seaside town in the east where Hong Kong goes at the weekend: a waterfront of seafood restaurants with the catch swimming in tanks, fishing boats selling straight off the deck, and sampans and kaito ferries heading out to the… Directions
ShenzhenShenzhen was a fishing village forty years ago and is now a skyline across the border. Directions
Tai O Fishing Village★ 4.3 · FreeA fishing village on stilts at the western tip of Lantau, home of the Tanka boat people, with houses on poles over the creek, shrimp paste and dried seafood curing in the sun, and small boats heading out to look for the pink… Directions
Tian Tan Buddha (Big Buddha)★ 4.6 · FreeThe 34-metre bronze Buddha, completed in 1993, sits on the Ngong Ping plateau at the top of 268 steps beside the Po Lin Monastery. Directions