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Ko Lau Wan

Ko Lau Wan a.k.a.

Ko Lau Wan
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The place

Ko Lau Wan a.k.a. Kau Lau Wan (較流灣) is a remote village in the north of Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong. Administratively, it is under the jurisdiction of Tai Po District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ko Lau Wan

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sharp Peak

    Sharp Peak, or Nam She Tsim, is a hill inside Sai Kung East Country Park, north of Tai Long Wan, in the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong. It is particularly well known for its well-defined sharp peak, which rises to a height of 468 metres above sea level.

    3.5 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sai Kung West Country Park (Wan Tsai Extension)

    Sai Kung West Country Park ) is a 1.23 square kilometres country park on the Sai Kung Peninsula in northeast Hong Kong.

    2.3 km · country park in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wong Shek Pier

    Wong Shek Pier is a public pier on the shore of Long Harbour in the north-east of Hong Kong's New Territories. It is situated in the Wong Shek area of the Sai Kung Peninsula.

    3.7 km · pier in Hong Kong · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ko Lau Wan

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 49 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 61 km · Macau (MFM), 86 km
  • Hong Kong → Ko Lau Wan
    28 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · HK$27–37
  • Shenzhen → Ko Lau Wan
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · ¥21–28
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Ko Lau Wan
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $9–13
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ko Lau Wan

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ko Lau Wan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    465 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    702 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    741 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,014 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,079 km

If you know how people move in Ko Lau Wan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ko Lau Wan

Ko Lau Wan is 19 km from Tseung Kwan O, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.