Area of Hong Kong
So Kwun Wat
So Kwun Wat, commonly pronounced So Kwun Fat, is an area on the south coast of the western mainland New Territories in Hong Kong.
The proper So Kwun Wat is a populated area in the valley between Siu Lam and Sam Shing Hui. It includes So Kwun Tan (掃管灘) on the shore, which is a residential area, Hong Kong Gold Coast (香港黃金海岸), with villas on Pearl Island (龍珠島) off the coast.
How locals move
Getting around So Kwun Wat the local way
Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
- 公共小巴元朗至大棠線(往元朗) Public Light Bus Yuen Long – Tai Tong (to Yuen Long)
- 公共小巴元朗至大棠線(往大棠) Public Light Bus Yuen Long – Tai Tong (to Tai Tong)
- 611 新界專線小巴611線 New Territories Green Minibus 611 (山貝路 Shan Pui Road ↺ 元朗(阜財街) Yuen Long (Fau Tsoi Street))
- 618 新界專綫小巴618線 New Territories Green Minibus 618 (天恩邨 Tin Yan Estate → 深圳灣口岸 Shenzhen Bay Port) · 天祐有限公司 Yield Team Limited
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- Get inMost people take the ferry service from Hong Kong Central Pier 6 - next to the Central Star Ferry.
- Get inThe Inter Islands ferry provides 10 sailings a day starting from Cheung Chau and stopping at Mui Wo on the way to Peng Chau.
- Go nextA ferry from Peng Chau can be taken to any of the following: Discovery Bay, Lantau - Reachable via ferry from the Peng Chau public pier.
- Go nextThe ferry occasionally stops at the Trappist Monastery pier first, so make sure you don't get off the boat prematurely.
- Go nextCentral - The most regular ferry service from the main Peng Chau Ferry Pier.
- Go nextCheung Chau & Mui Wo - Reachable via the Inter-Island Ferry service which leaves from the same pier as the Central ferry, although from a different gate.
- Go nextThe ferry operates several times a day and stops at Mui Wo, then Chi Ma Wan (there is little at this spot and it is mostly only to pick up or drop off hikers), and finally at Cheung Chau before turning around and coming back.
- Go nextThe ferry from Peng Chau to Discovery Bay occasionally stops at the monastery's pier (ask the ferry staff) which is about 15 minutes walk uphill from the first parts of the complex itself.
From Wikivoyage: Peng Chau, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Yingko Kowmiau Taopsia (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.