Dragon Claw Cave, Hong Kong

The Dragon Claw Cave, or 龍爪洞 as it is known in Chinese is a sea cave at the end of a small bay in the peninsula that extends between the South Bay Beach and Ching Hom Kok Beach, in Hong Kong. There's a nice but challenging path from the South Bay Beach to near cave, but as you near the cave the path turns into more difficult, at some point other hikers warned of a wild boar, then the path required an assisting rope, and then further down ... I didn't dare climb all the way down for the last 20 meters, for a fear of falling to the sea. But it is a beautiful cave even from this distance!

Afterwards I took a swim at the South Bay Beach before we headed back to the city. This was just a stop on our way with trains from Shenzhen to Hong Kong and then onwards to the airport; the easiest way to get to Shenzhen from Finland is to get the Finnair Helsinki-Hong Kong flight and use the trains or ferries to get over to Shenzhen. For the trains you'll need to switch at the West Kowloon station in Hong Kong from the border-crossing high speed train to the Airport Express train.

The area around South Bay Beach is very nice, there isn't much at the beach itself but on the way there there are high end apartments, a luxury neighborhood with more beaches, restaurants, etc.

Not much information about the cave can be found from the Internet, but here's one trip report to the cave. More information about the beach here. The beach is at N 22.224952 W 114.197536 and the cave at N 22.223054 E 114.195581.

Hike pictures:

The hiking paths go like this (courtesy of alltrails):

Cave pictures:

Beach pictures:

At the airport we were stunned by the size of it:

We had the fortune to be able to enter a lounge with the two of us having enough status for that plus guests. The Cathay Pacific Bridge Lounge was wonderful, with its two sides (Chinese style food on the left and international food on the right). What was very nice also how both food and shower access was given with alarm buzzers. Well organized.

Lounge photos:

Flight home:

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