Tai To Yan () is a mountain that lies in northern Hong Kong near
Fanling
Fanling ( zh, t=粉嶺; also spelled Fan Ling or Fan Leng) is a town in the New Territories East of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the North District. Fanling Town is the main settlement of the Fanling area. The name Fanling i ...
. It is close to a similarly named peak called
Pak Tai To Yan
Pak Tai To Yan () is a mountain in northern Hong Kong near Fanling. It is close to a similarly named peak called Tai To Yan. Pak Tai To Yan is 480 metres tall.
Geography
On the northern foot of this mountain, the largest cemetery in Hong Kong, W ...
.
Geography
Tai To Yan is 566 metres tall and is the tallest mountain in the nearby area.
Access
Tai To Yan is in the
Lam Tsuen Country Park
Lam Tsuen Country Park () is a 15.20 km2 country park in the northern New Territories, Hong Kong.
It opened in 1979 and spans parts of Tai Po, Fanling and Yuen Long. The park is divided into two parts by Fan Kam Road: Tai To Yan () and Kai K ...
in northern Hong Kong. It is hiked as part of the Razors Edge Ridge Hike which brings hikers to both Tai To Yan (566 m) and nearby Pak Tai To Yan (480 m).
Hikers can start their hike near
Kadoorie Farm
Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) (), formerly known as Kadoorie Experimental and Extension Farm (), or Kadoorie Farm (), was originally set up to aid poor farmers in the New Territories in Hong Kong. It later shifted its focus to promote ...
and finish a few hours later at
Fanling MTR station or
Wah Ming Estate
Wah Ming Estate () is a mixed TPS and public housing estate in Wo Hop Shek, Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Wa Mei Shan and Wo Hing Sports Centre. It consists of seven residential buildings built in 1990. The flats in the estate were s ...
Bus Terminus.
See also
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List of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong
The following is a list of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong.
In the romanisation system used by the Hong Kong Government known as Standard Romanisation, 'shan' and 'leng' are the transliterations of the Cantonese words for 'mount' (å ...
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Lam Tsuen Country Park
Lam Tsuen Country Park () is a 15.20 km2 country park in the northern New Territories, Hong Kong.
It opened in 1979 and spans parts of Tai Po, Fanling and Yuen Long. The park is divided into two parts by Fan Kam Road: Tai To Yan () and Kai K ...
References
{{Hills and Mountains in Hong Kong