So I took a little hike one morning from my AKI Hong Kong MGallery Hotel at Wan Chai to the East Coast Boardwalk, North Point. It was a pleasant walk and ended at Fortress Hill area where I had a nice breakfast and an even nicer coffee !
Getting from Wan Chai to East Coast Boardwalk
The whole walk is roughly this way on the map of Hong Kong Victoria Harbour.
The distance from my hotel to the Hong Kong East Coast Broadwalk is 4km.
Let’s go for the walk !
From the AKI Hong Kong MGallery hotel, there is a bridge right next to the hotel that takes you through couple of buildings and it will reach the new Exhibition Centre MTR station and then to the Wan Chai Ferry Pier area to start our walk !
You will see this beautiful waterfront area… called 灣仔海濱公園 !
Apparently this area is called Wan Chai Temporary Promenade
Basically you are just walking along the coast line of Wan Chai Victoria Harbour…
Hong Kong is so pretty…
And just like in Singapore City Square Mall, there is also a MTR train here for you to visit !
The two “Fly Head” train cars retain the same appearance as when they were running on the East Rail Line and are now officially settled at “Harbour Station” of the “Water Sports and Recreation Precinct” on the Wan Chai Harbourfront.
Walking on.. and enjoying the harbour view of Kowloon from the Hong Kong Island side…
Soon, you will reach Water Sports Hub of Wan Chai
A little walk more and you will see Cross Harbour Tunnel, the site of many movies…
AT this point, you might be stuck. How do I carry on. Actually what you need to do is to walk into the gates of Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) on the left side of the photo above.
Here’s a little map to show you…
You can see this sign when you are inside Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC). You are walking towards the “Revitalised Typhoon Shelter Precinct” !
Revitalised Typhoon Shelter Precinct is a long stretch of park along the harbour… The Revitalised Typhoon Shelter Precinct is located between the Jardine Noonday Gun at Victoria Park Road and the Tung Lo Wan Fire Station.
Walking along this route is relaxing and comfortable… with lots of pleasure boats parked at this area…
As you reach the end of The Revitalised Typhoon Shelter Precinct, you will be walking along the road side (after you leave the precinct “park”).. but there are signs to help you…
The road is called Hing Fai Street
And tata.. you will reach East Coast Park Precinct… or the start of Hong Kong East Coast Boardwalk
And you will see this very unique structure. It is actually Central–Wan Chai Bypass East Vent Shaft. Yes a Vent Shaft for the Central–Wan Chai Bypass expressway !
From here, you can see the whole Wan Chai and Causeway Bay..
Walking along the coastline will be the Hong Kong East Coast Boardwalk !
There are two sections. The West and East section.
Just enjoy your walk !
It is still work in progress as in there are lots of work going on to improve it when we are there.
And you can even walk under the bridge….
It is pretty cool area under the expressway bridge
And around this point, we were quite contented to finish our walk (4km from AKI Hong Kong MGallery Hotel) and go for breakfast !
We exited the Broadwalk to City Garden Road and set out to find Angus Cafe (半島冰室) and Uncle Ben Coffee for a traditional Hong Kong breakfast and EXCELLENT COFFEE.
Other Hiking In Hong Kong Articles
If you like hiking in Hong Kong, like I do, I have several articles in this blog post. And one Dragon Back Hike blog post coming soon 🙂
