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Hong Kong

Long Ke Wan is a scenic bay on the eastern Sai Kung Peninsula inside Sai Kung East Country Park. It is valued for its relatively unspoiled white-sand beach, clear coastal waters and surrounding countryside—an important example of Hong Kong's coastal natural heritage and part of the broader geological and ecological landscape of the Sai Kung area.

Ham Tin Wan is a scenic bay in the Tai Long Wan (Big Wave Bay) area on the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong. It sits inside Sai Kung East Country Park and is valued for its remarkable coastal scenery, clear water, and relatively unspoilt sandy beach. The area preserves traces of traditional coastal village life in nearby Ham Tin Tsuen, reflecting the region's fishing and small-scale agricultural heritage.

Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park is one of Hong Kong's important marine protected areas established to conserve rich shallow-water coral communities and intertidal habitats on the northeastern Sai Kung peninsula. The park protects reef flats, seagrass beds and mudflats that support diverse fish, crustaceans and other marine life, and it serves as an important site for education, scientific research and community-led conservation.

Height: 468 m. Sharp Peak (Nam She Tsim) is an iconic and visually striking granite peak in Sai Kung East Country Park, Hong Kong. It is renowned for its steep, jagged profile and offers outstanding panoramic coastal views. The peak is important as a natural landmark for the Sai Kung peninsula and is a popular challenge among Hong Kong hikers for its dramatic ridgeline and relatively unmodified natural terrain.

Tap Mun (Grass Island) is a small island in northeastern Hong Kong, part of Tai Po District. Historically a fishing community, it retains a traditional village atmosphere with a Tin Hau temple that reflects the island's maritime culture. Naturallly, Tap Mun is known for its open grassland hilltops, panoramic views over Mirs Bay and Tolo Harbour, and as a stopover for migratory birds and wildflowers, making it valued for both cultural heritage and scenic/natural beauty.

Lamma Island (Yung Shue Wan) is one of Hong Kong's most popular outlying islands, valued for its traditional fishing-village heritage, relaxed low-rise village life and natural coastline. It contrasts sharply with the dense urban environment of Hong Kong Island: the island preserves small temples, local fishing culture and community-run shops while offering coastal habitats, beaches and rugged hiking trails.

Sok Kwu Wan is a traditional fishing village and bay on the eastern side of Lamma Island, Hong Kong. It represents the island's maritime heritage and relaxed, car-free lifestyle distinct from urban Hong Kong. The bay developed into a popular dining and day-trip destination while retaining village features such as a Tin Hau temple and small piers used by local fishermen. The surrounding natural hills and coastal scenery make it a valued spot for easy island hikes and wildlife viewing.

Cheung Chau is a historic fishing island in Hong Kong with a strong maritime and village culture. Over centuries it developed as a tight-knit community centered on fishing, sea trade and temple worship. The island is best known for its traditional temples (notably Pak Tai and Tin Hau), its pedestrianised main street, and the unique Cheung Chau Bun Festival which reflects local religious beliefs and community identity. Natural highlights include sandy beaches, rocky coastlines and scenic coastal walks that showcase Hong Kong's island landscape.

Geological and natural importance: Tung Ping Chau is a distinctive sedimentary island in northeastern Hong Kong, celebrated as part of the Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark for its Late Permian sedimentary rock formations, wave-cut platforms and exposed strata. Cultural/historical note: once a small fishing community, the island preserves abandoned village buildings and temples that reflect Hong Kong's coastal fishing heritage.

Peng Chau is a compact, historically working island in Hong Kong's Islands District with a strong fishing and light‑industry past. The island preserves traditional village architecture, small temples and former factory buildings that reflect Hong Kong's coastal community life and early 20th‑century local industry. Its calm coastal setting and coastal ecology offer a natural contrast to the nearby urban skyline.

Po Toi Island (蒲台島) is an outlying island of Hong Kong known for its dramatic coastal rock formations, rich maritime heritage, and small traditional fishing village. Geologically, the island features weathered volcanic rocks sculpted into unusual shapes by sea and wind, making it an important natural landmark for landscape and geology enthusiasts. Culturally, Po Toi retains elements of traditional fishing-community life, including small temples and a village center where local seafood and dried fish are sold. The island’s relative remoteness and low development have helped preserve both its natural scenery and the slower-paced island lifestyle.

Plover Cove Country Park protects a large area of hills, shorelines and the Plover Cove Reservoir in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong. The Plover Cove Reservoir itself is an important engineering project in Hong Kong’s post-war development and the park preserves habitats for freshwater and coastal species, making it valuable for conservation, recreation and environmental education.

Bride’s Pool (新娘潭) and the nearby Mirror Pool are small but scenic freshwater pools and waterfalls located in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong, within the general area of Plover Cove Country Park and Tai Po. They are valued for their natural beauty, river-formed rock pools, and relatively accessible woodland scenery, making them popular short-escape sites for Hong Kong residents and nature lovers. The pools illustrate Hong Kong’s subtropical stream habitats and are part of local efforts to conserve hillside and riparian environments.

Pat Sin Leng Country Park (八仙嶺郊野公園) protects an important upland ridge and surrounding habitats in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong. The park conserves native subtropical woodlands, grasslands and streams that support diverse flora and fauna and provides green space for recreation close to urban areas. It is valued for its scenic ridgelines, panoramic views over Plover Cove Reservoir and Tolo Harbour, and as a recreational resource for nearby towns.

Kat Hing Wai is a well-preserved traditional Hakka/Tang-clan walled village in Kam Tin, Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong. It exemplifies rural settlement patterns of the New Territories and retains original defensive walls, narrow lanes and clan ancestral halls that reflect the social organization, lineage traditions, and architecture of the region. The village offers insight into Hong Kong's pre-urban, agricultural past and clan-based community life.

Ping Shan Heritage Trail is Hong Kong's first heritage trail, established in 1993 to showcase the historic core of the Ping Shan area in Yuen Long, New Territories. It preserves a compact group of traditional village buildings and clan monuments associated with the Tang Clan—one of the territory's major founding clans—illustrating vernacular architecture, ancestral worship practices and village life dating back several centuries. The trail provides a rare, concentrated glimpse of rural New Territories history and social structure within easy reach of the urban areas.

Lung Yeuk Tau, located in Fanling in Hong Kong's New Territories, is an important cluster of Tang Clan villages that illustrates the social structure, defensive architecture and lineage-based traditions of one of the territory's major clans. The area contains several historic walled villages, ancestral halls and temples that reflect centuries of rural life, clan governance and local religious practice. Many structures are protected as Declared Monuments or graded historic buildings, making the area significant for heritage conservation.

Lai Chi Wo is a traditional Hakka walled village in Hong Kong's northeastern New Territories. It is notable for its well-preserved layout of ancestral halls, village houses and a feng shui woodland (a protected patch of native forest) behind the village. The site represents Hakka rural life, architecture and community organization in Hong Kong and is important for cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation.

Shing Mun Reservoir sits within Shing Mun Country Park in the New Territories of Hong Kong and is an important component of the territory’s early water-supply infrastructure and a valued green lung for urban areas nearby. The reservoir and its surrounding woodland provide habitat for diverse native flora and fauna and are a popular nature-recreation area for residents and visitors from Tsuen Wan, Sha Tin and beyond.

Tai Mo Shan (大帽山) is the highest peak in Hong Kong at 957 metres and forms the backbone of the surrounding New Territories. It is the centrepiece of Tai Mo Shan Country Park and is important for: cooler, montane microclimate in Hong Kong; conservation of upland flora and fauna (including birdlife, butterflies and native shrubs); scenic watersheds and streams that feed nearby reservoirs. The peak and its slopes offer rare montane grassland and cloud-forest-like conditions within the subtropical region, making it a significant natural landmark and outdoor recreation area.