Tai Wai KCR. Use “Che Kung Miu” exit, then follow Hung Mui Kuk Rd 900m to its end at the park entrance.

Free. Lion Rock Country Park covers a wild ridge of hills just south of the town of Tai Wai, which physically splits the New Territories from Kowloon. The trail first heads up for about thirty minutes from the park entrance to Amah Rock (also known as Yearning for Husband Rock), said to be a woman who turned to stone waiting for her husband to return from fishing. Young women make the pilgrimage up here during the Maiden’s Festival, held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (usually in August). From here, Lion Rock is a further hour: continue past a shelter at Kowloon Pass, then head left onto the MacLehose Trail. Here you bear right at another smaller shelter, and then leave the path to scramble up to two peaks formed by the lion’s “head” and “rump” - on a clear day the views over Kowloon and the harbour are superb.

Lion Rock is also a popular spot for rock climbing - the best source of information on which is www.hongkongclimbing.com, which provides practical details for a score of routes in Hong Kong, and links to local clubs and climbing centres.