Che Pau Teng - Rhino Rock Hiking Trail — Attraction in Hong Kong

Che Pau Teng is a natural landmark known as The Rhino Rock located near the hilltop found on the Stanley Peninsula. It can be visited by way of a couple of trail routes found at and near the end of Wong Ma Kok Road south of the Stanley Village.

The simplest route starts at the bus stop at the end of the road right next to the Stanley Fort. This is a paved walk up to the transmission station before turning into a natural trail through shrubs and winding over, around and even through boulder piles until you reach the iconic landmark. Unfortunately, when I passed by recently, I found this trailhead closed to the public and unavailable for access.

The second route starts around 500 metres back on Wong Ma Kok Road, north of the Regalia Bay Residences. You'll find two small buildings and a trail that begins just next to the lower building. You'll climb southward at first beside a pipeline for around 40 metres before beginning a fairly sharp ascend up the hillside to the southeast. The trail requires some minor navigation skills and good footwear. I recommend gloves as well as you have to do some scrambling at times. You'll go through some thick wooded stretches, low hanging bamboo and boulder outcrops before reaching the same transmission station where the two routes meet.

There are great viewpoints throughout on the second route, particularly looking back to the north at Stanley. Even if it is more challenging, it is worth taking for the views alone. You'll be rewarded with more fine views of the sea from the boulder piles near and at the Rhino Rock. Inherently, the Che Pau Teng landmark does clearly resemble the face of a rhinoceros.

Note: Neither trail route up to the Rhino Rock is well documented nor do they show up properly on Google Maps. However, if you upload Hiking Trail HK, you can see both routes fairly well on their more detailed maps of the Stanley Peninsula.

Note: The hike isn't particularly long but it is steep and route two is fairly requiring. Bring sufficient water and a hat for the areas that are exposed to the elements.

Note: To reach the trailheads, you can walk down Wong Ma Kok Road around 20-25 minutes south of the village. During stretches of the road, there are no pavement sidewalks so you have to walk directly on the street. If this makes you uncomfortable, just take bus routes 6X or light green minibus 14 from the village to the end of the road where you find...

Pictures session at Rhino Rock at Dawn near Stanley Fort , Stanley In normal hours of a day two bus routes Nos. 6A and 14 can take one here. For Dawn pictures, one has to use taxi and more importantly must reserve 50 mins of time to hike up a slope near the Stanley Fort, which entrance is next to the gate of the Fort close to the roundabout of the bus terminus. Once into the slope with some mud steps, one walk about 400 meters to reach to the top a Radio station which was a piece of flat ground .From here look for a Red Ribbon indicator to enter into the bushes downhill at the other route, near a Survey post. Be careful, the downward route was sandy and steep but only for 50 meters to arrive at the Rhino Rock with the ocean underneath and facing East, Hok Tsui Tsuen. Very open view to take the rising sun. Need to bring flash lights as the route will be dark. The Sun comes up about 0530 during this season. Written on...

The view in this place is so awesome the only flaws are those bald spots that really visible before you get down to the rhino rock shape. It’s a bit scary if raining time but there’s a rope that you can hold to get down and up a little bit easy. This area is most promising view you can get when facing the ocean the picturesque so good. In many angles you can get more in to it. If your far from here you can get the bus if your starting point is from chai wan area you can ride the bus 14 and exactly stop the main entrance of the trail. But if the way from central mostly 260,6,6x, to Stanley then get off from Stanley market,then walk towards the direction of Wong Ma Kok Road,just go straight you can see the army base area in the Stanley fort the main entrance of the trail. To make sure your safety wear gloves and shoes for hiking with spike because it’s slippery.. Enjoy...