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Village and area of Neolithic settlement in Hong Kong

Sham Chung

Sham Chung is a Hakka village and an area of Neolithic settlement in Hong Kong.

Sham Chung
Sham Chung · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sham Chung is a Hakka village and an area of Neolithic settlement in Hong Kong. It is located in the south of Tolo Channel, beside Three Fathoms Cove on the Sai Kung Peninsula. Administratively, it is part of Tai Po District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sham Chung

5 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
    Shek Uk Shan

    Shek Uk Shan is the highest mountain in Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong. A signal station is located by the top of the peak.

    1.6 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sai Kung West Country Park

    Sai Kung West Country Park is a 30 square kilometres country park on the Sai Kung Peninsula in northeast Hong Kong.

    2.3 km · country park on the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kai Kung Shan

    Kai Kung Shan is a mountain that lies within the western part of Sai Kung Peninsula in northeastern Hong Kong. Its summit is 399 metres above sea level.

    2.9 km · Hill in Sai Kung, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wa Mei Shan

    Wa Mei Shan is a mountain in northeastern Hong Kong on Sai Kung Peninsula. It is located within Tai Po District.

    2.7 km · mountain in Lam Tsuen Country Park, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wong Tei Tung

    Wong Tei Tung was believed to be an Upper Paleolithic settlement in Hong Kong, but it is now dated 7700 to 2200 years old. It is located near Sham Chung, near to the Three Fathoms Cove on the Sai Kung Peninsula.

    1 km · archaeological site 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.

Go there

Getting to Sham Chung

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 41 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 54 km · Macau (MFM), 79 km
  • Hong Kong → Sham Chung
    23 km · quickest by road, 51 min · HK$25–33
  • Shenzhen → Sham Chung
    13 km · quickest by road, 32 min · ¥7–10
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Sham Chung
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · $6–9
  • 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 Sham Chung

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 Sham Chung. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTuen Mun Ferry Pier provides a line by Fortune Ferry from Tuen Mun to Tai O.

From Wikivoyage: Hong Kong/New Territories, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    473 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    710 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    748 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,022 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,071 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sham Chung

Sham Chung is 13 km from Sha Tin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.