Hong Kong Private Layover + Transit Tours with Airport Pickup and Drop Off 2027
A Private 4 to 8 Hour Airport Layover + Transit Tour That Gets You Back on Time
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Hong Kong Private Layover + Transit Tours with Airport Pickup and Drop Off 2027
Foreword by Jamie
A Private 4 to 8 Hour Airport Layover + Transit Tour That Gets You Back on Time
A layover in Hong Kong is not a small holiday. It is a gap between two flights, and the gap is rarely as long as it looks on the ticket. I have been picking people up in the arrivals hall since 2011. Some of them have 6 hours. Some of them have 14. Some of them land at 6am looking like they have been folded into a suitcase. All of them have the same quiet question on their face. Can I actually leave this airport, see something that is Hong Kong, and still make the onward flight?.
Yes. If the clock is honest, and if the person meeting you has done this often enough to be boring about time. I am that person. I am English. I arrived in Hong Kong with my family on 2nd January 1972. I have lived here for 50+ years. I have completed 2,400+ private tours since 2011. A good slice of those started and finished at Hong Kong International Airport. I have never had a guest miss a connecting flight. That is not a slogan. That is the whole job.
This page is the 2027 refresh of a post that had grown old and stale. The city has not become slower. The airport has not become less efficient. What has changed is the noise around layover tours. Coaches, free group loops, private car tours that promise a lot and sometimes under deliver depending on who you book with, and a lot of pages that pretend a 6 hour connection is a 6 hour look at Hong Kong. It is not. Below is how the day actually works, what the hours will hold, and how to write to me if you want to spend the gap with someone who lives here and has done for 50+ years.
Who this page is actually for
It is for the passenger whose bags are checked through, or whose bags can sit in left luggage for a few hours, and who would rather see Victoria Harbour than another perfume counter. It is for the couple on the long way to Australia. It is for the solo traveller who does not want to join a group of 20 people wearing stickers. It is for the family with children who will not survive 8 hours of gate seating. It is for the older guest who walks, but not in a hurry. It is for the business passenger with a gap between Tokyo and London who wants Central, a conversation, and a guarantee about the next flight.
It is not for the person with a 4 hour connection who has to collect bags, change terminals and check in again. That person should stay airside, find a shower and a decent noodle shop, and live to fly another day. I would rather lose that booking than pretend I can invent time.
Group size is 1 to 6 people. I prefer 4 or fewer. Just you, or you and whoever you are travelling with. I do not join you to another group. I do not send a substitute guide. If I am already booked I will say so and I will introduce you to a great operator I trust.
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Hong Kong Private Layover + Transit Tours with Airport Pickup and Drop Off 2027
The clock that actually matters
Forget the pretty number on the booking confirmation for a moment. That number is the time between one scheduled arrival and the next scheduled departure. It is not the time you have in Hong Kong. Three slices come off it before we have even started walking.
The inbound slice
From leaving the aircraft to standing in the arrivals hall is usually 45 to 60 minutes. Immigration at Hong Kong International Airport is fast by world standards. On a quiet morning it can be quicker. When three long haul flights land on top of each other it can be the full hour. I meet you after you have cleared immigration, not at the gate. Please send me the arrival flight number. There are 2 arrival halls, A and B, and I would rather be standing in the right one, it is a 5 minute walk between arrival halls and the arrival halls are jammed so it is hard to see people,
When I actually pick you up
Airport pickups with me are a morning job. In practice that means 6am to 8am. That is when the long haul aircraft arrive, and that is when 100% of my airport guests walk out of arrivals. I have done 6am numerous times. It is not a problem. I have never picked up a layover guest at the airport at 2pm. If your connection lands in the afternoon, write to me anyway and I will tell you honestly whether the clock still works, or whether you need a different kind of day.
The tour slice
The hours you book with me start when I pick you up and they end when I drop you back at the airport. That is the only honest way to count. A 6 hour tour is 6 hours in my company, including the Airport Express both ways. It is not 6 hours of sightseeing after a mystery commute.
The outbound slice
I work to having you back at Hong Kong International Airport 90 minutes before your departing flight. That is my rule. It has kept every connection I have ever handled. Some airlines and some passengers prefer 2 hours. If you want a fatter buffer, say so when you write and we shorten the tour, not the margin.
Put those three slices against a ticket and the picture is plain.
A 6 hour connection. After inbound formalities and the 90 minute return buffer you may have 3 to 3.5 hours in my company. That is tight. Sometimes it is still worth it. Sometimes it is not. I will tell you which.
An 8 hour connection. This is the first connection I call comfortable for a 4 to 5 hour tour.
A 10 hour connection. This is the sweet spot for a 6 hour tour. You will see a city, not a postcard.
A 12 hour connection or more. Now we can talk about 7 or 8 hours, and if the morning start allows it we can still be on the harbour when the place begins to change gear.
An overnight gap of 14 hours or more. Different product. We can do a full tour after that 6am to 8am pickup and still leave you time to eat and sit down.
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Bags, left luggage and the arrivals hall
If your bags are checked through to the final destination, life is simple. Carry on only. We go.
If you have to collect bags, that is not a reason to sit in a car all afternoon. Hong Kong International Airport has a world class left luggage facility in the arrivals hall. It is in Arrival Hall A, opposite the Pret A Manger, next to the escalators that go up to the departures hall. It is easy to find, it is reasonably priced, and it is built for exactly this situation. Dropping a suitcase there is usually a 5 minute job. Collecting it at the end is the same. I have stood next to that counter more times than I can count.
This is one of the reasons a layover with me works. You do not need a private car just because you landed with luggage. You store the cases 50 metres from where I meet you, we go into the city, and we collect them on the way back into the departures hall. A backpack and a small roll aboard can come with us. Two large cases and a golf bag stay in left luggage. That is common sense, not a limitation.
There are ATMs in the arrivals hall. There are also money changers. If you change a serious amount of cash at the airport you will give away about 10% compared with the changer I use in town. The airport kiosk is not a villain. It paid a fortune for the concession and it charges like it. Change enough for the day. Do the rest later, or do not bother. Most of my guests pay me in US$ cash anyway.
The Airport Express, Chek Lap Kok on Lantau and why 24 minutes is not 24 minutes
Hong Kong International Airport sits on Chek Lap Kok on Lantau Island. Central is not next door. The Airport Express Train station sits in the arrivals hall, which is one of the few things the airport got completely right. The train itself takes 24 minutes to Hong Kong Station. That figure is true and it is also slightly mischievous. You still walk to the platform. You still wait up to 10 minutes for a train. You still walk out of Hong Kong Station into the city. Door to useful pavement is closer to 30 to 35 minutes. I would rather you heard that from me than discovered it by staring at a watch.
That ride is not a silent commute. We talk. The first half hour of a layover is when people stop being passengers and start being in Hong Kong. You get the lay of the land, the clock for the rest of the tour, and answers to the questions you have been sitting on since the aircraft began its descent. I do not put you on a train with a wave and a meeting point in town. I am on the train with you.
At the end of the tour I do not dump you onto the Airport ExpressTrain at Hong Kong Station or Kowloon Station and call that drop off. A lot of layover tours end that way. Yours does not. I come back to Hong Kong International Airport with you. The train stops in the departures hall. I take you to immigration in the departures hall, I make sure you go through the right gate, not the wrong queue, and I leave you in the right part of the building for your flight. That last 20 minutes is when people get flustered. It is part of the tour, not an afterthought. I could save the time and the fare. That is not how I operate.
The Airport Express tickets are not included in my fee. Neither is the Peak Tram. I will tell you what to budget before we start. Trains run from early morning until late at night. If your connection sits outside those hours we talk about it in writing before anyone commits.
What the hours will hold, without a fake sample itinerary
I do not issue sample itineraries. I have written a whole post about why. Hong Kong has too many (literally in the billions!) combinations, and a printed loop becomes a trap the moment the weather turns or your knees announce themselves. What I can do is tell you what each block of time will bear.
4 hours from pickup to drop off
This is a concentrated look, not a survey. Airport Express in. One strong piece of the city. Airport Express back, with me, to immigration in the departures hall. The strong piece is often Victoria Peak if the weather is playing, or the harbour and the Star Ferry if it is not. We will not do Victoria Peak and a temple and a market and lunch. Anyone who promises that in 4 hours is selling a photograph from a car window.
5 to 6 hours from pickup to drop off
Now we have a real tour. Victoria Peak with time to choose the viewpoint rather than being herded to the nearest rail. Down to Central. A look at the colonial floor of the city if that interests you. The Star Ferry across Victoria Harbour. Tsim Sha Tsui from the waterfront, which is where the island actually looks like Hong Kong. Room for a sit down and a cup of tea. This is the length I recommend to most layover guests who have an 8 to 10 hour connection.
7 to 8 hours from pickup to drop off
This is the day I prefer when the clock allows it. We can add a district rather than another viewpoint. We can do the Street Tram. We can walk a market without treating it as a shopping obligation. Because the pickup is 6am to 8am, an 8 hour tour still puts us back at the airport in by mid afternoon, which is when a lot of onward long haul flights want you. If the connection is longer still, we can let the day run on.
On the day I will spend 5 to 10 minutes at the start asking what you actually want from the tour. Most people then leave it to me. I have never run the same tour twice and I have done over 2,400+. That is not a flourish. It is what happens when you refuse a script.
Victoria Peak, and which of the 4 views you actually want
If the weather is clear and the timing works, Victoria Peak is still the first conversation. It is not the only conversation. I have been up there 6,000+ times since 1972. I no longer steer every guest to the same view point.
There are 4 places that come up. Choice is weather plus your fitness.
Lugard Road Lookout. Free. The wide panorama on a clear day. It is a 40 minute round walk with no shelters. Worth it if you can walk it. Not worth it in rain or if the legs have already had enough of an aircraft cabin. Keep walking past the house at 27 Lugard Road. When you see the old concrete seat on the left you are a few minutes from the right view. A lot of people stop too soon.
Peak Galleria roof. Free. Easier and quicker. A sensible choice when time is short.
Lions Pavilion Lookout. Free. Essentially the same slice of view you pay for at the Peak Tower.
Peak Tower Sky Terrace 428. Paid, about US$10 per adult, crowded, a smaller slice. I have taken fewer than 5 guests there in 15+ years.
Three of the 4 views are free. Two of those free spots are basically the same view as Sky Terrace 428 without the ticket. Most visitors think the only way up is the Peak Tram both ways and then the paid deck, because that is where the tram stops. I love the Peak Tram one way going down, front seats, when the timing is right. The Peak Tram is not included in my fee.
If cloud has sat on the high ground, we do not waste an hour proving it. We go to the harbour instead. The harbour does not close for low cloud.
Lantau Island from the airport. Tempting, and often a mistake
Hong Kong International Airport sits on Chek Lap Kok on Lantau Island. Guests look at a map and think the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village must be next door. They are not. They are still a long way from the Airport, and the roads and the cable car queues do not care that you have a boarding time.
I can do a layover tour to the Big Buddha. Subject to time I can include Tai O Fishing Village. I will only suggest it when the connection is long enough that we are not turning a statue into a sprint. A proper Lantau day is an 8 hour job for hotel guests. On a layover I need even more honesty because Chek Lap Kok sits at the wrong end of the same island. If a private car operator with the right permits is the better tool for that particular gap, I will say so and I will introduce you. I do not have those permits. I have never owned or driven a car in Hong Kong.
I do not do car tours. Here is the honest alternative
I do not offer private car tours. I will not hire a vehicle and then pretend the day is the same. Sitting in the back of a car teaches you the skyline. It does not teach you how the city moves. The Airport Express, the Star Ferry, the Street Tram and the MTR (Subway) are Hong Kong. That is how people here actually travel, and it is how we cover ground without sitting in the same tunnel as everyone else.
Luggage is the usual objection, and it is a fair one until you have seen the arrivals hall. The left luggage facility is world class and it is right there where we meet. That is the difference between my layover and a car layover. Their selling point is the boot. Mine is that you can put the bags down, properly, and then see the city on foot and on the trains and ferries that make the place tick.
If walking is not realistic, or if you have your heart set on a car day, write to me anyway. I will introduce you to a great operator who does that work properly. I am not going to talk you into a walking tour that will make you miserable. I am also not going to pretend I am a driver guide. There are excellent people in this city who are. Some of them are friends. I would rather you had the right tour than my tour.
Free layover tours, government tours, and what you actually get
Hong Kong does not run a government sponsored free city tour in the way Singapore has done for decades. Seoul, Tokyo and Taipei have versions of the same idea. We do not. A phrase I have used for years still holds. You get what you pay for.
There is now a free layover tour aimed at transit passengers with 7 hours or more, sold through a large online travel agent. I have written about it separately. The short version for this page is simple. A free coach loop with a junior guide and 45 minutes at two stops is better than the food court. It is not a private tour with a resident. It will not start at 7am because you landed at 5.40am. It will not change shape because your knees have had enough. It will not get you to the viewpoint that actually fits the weather. If that is all the clock and the budget will bear, take it. If you want the day to belong to you, write to me.
If you book a layover tour on Viator or Tripadvisor you generally have no control over which guide turns up. That is the most important component of the tour. Check the actual company website. Read the Tripadvisor reviews of the person, not only the brand. Then book on the website. I say this even when the website is not mine.
Rain, heat and the days that refuse to behave
Hong Kong weather does not respect itineraries. From May to September the city is hot, humid, wet and occasionally closed by a typhoon signal. I still work in those months. We slow down, we use cover, we sit more, we let the harbour do more of the talking and Victoria Peak less. I will not march you up Lugard Road in a rain that is falling sideways. That is not toughness. That is manners.
Because the pickup is 6am to 8am, a long connection can still give you the harbour later in the day, when the light has changed. The same stretch of Tsim Sha Tsui at 10am and at 3pm is two different places. If your flights give us that length, say so. I will build the hours around the harbour rather than around a checklist.
Cruise ships, hotels and the cousin of this tour
A lot of what I have learned about tight timing comes from shore excursions. The job is the same even though the building is different. Pick you up at the place you are stuck. Give you the city. Get you back with a buffer that would satisfy a nervous purser. Hong Kong has 2 large cruise terminals. Ocean Terminal sits in a central, easy location and generally takes the smaller ships, roughly 500 to 2,000 passengers. The Kai Tak Cruise Terminal takes the mega ships of 5,000+ and it is not central. Transport from Kai Tak has been a talking point for years. It makes no difference to me which one your ship uses. Tell me the name of the ship so I can confirm the berth.
I mention this here because some of you are not only in transit. You are getting off a ship and flying out the same day, or landing and joining a ship. Luggage then becomes the whole puzzle. I have taken guests from a terminal to left luggage, done the tour, reunited them with the bags and taken them to Hong Kong International Airport. I drop you at immigration in the departures hall. I do not put you on the Airport Express and leave you to it. Write the whole story when you contact me. Do not send me the flight and hide the ship, or the other way round.
The business layover
Not every transit passenger is on holiday. Some of you have a jacket in the carry on and a meeting in another city tonight. You do not need a market. You need Central, the harbour, a grown up conversation about how this place actually works, and a hard stop that gets you to immigration in the departures hall without a conversation with an unhappy gate agent. Say that when you write. I will build the hours around that brief and I will not take you to Wong Tai Sin unless you ask.
Solo travellers
A lot of my layover guests are on their own. That is a good day for me. There is no group politics and no one pretending they are not tired. We go at one pace. If you want company and conversation you will have it, including on the Airport Express. If you want to look at the water and not talk for 10 minutes you can have that too. I have been doing this long enough to tell the difference.
Families between flights
Children 17 and under, travelling with a paying adult, are free. An airport is a poor place to keep a child happy for 8 hours. A ferry ride and a view and a snack in a real street will reset the whole journey. Tell me ages and tell me whether the youngest can do stairs. We have 3 adult sons. I am not frightened of a family between flights, I was born to do family tours!
Separate tickets
If your inbound and outbound flights are on separate tickets you may have to collect bags and check in again. That eats time the through passenger does not lose. Tell me. The buffer changes. Sometimes the honest answer is a shorter tour and a sit down near the check in hall. Sometimes the honest answer is do not leave the airport. I would rather write that sentence than meet you in arrivals with a plan that no longer fits.
Visa and entry
Most visitors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Canada can enter Hong Kong without a visa for a short stay. A layover that leaves the airport is an entry. If your passport is from somewhere with different rules, check before you book a tour that assumes you can walk out of arrivals. I am a guide, not an immigration officer, and I will not guess your passport for you.
What a layover is not
It is not Aberdeen, Stanley and a factory demonstration squeezed between two trains. That is the old coach loop with an airport sticker on it. It is not a food tour. It is not a hike. It is not a shopping day. It is a timed look at the city with enough margin to make the next flight, starting at the arrivals hall between 6am and 8am and ending at immigration in the departures hall. If you want the old loop I will send you to someone who still drives it well. I do not.
Pace, walking and what I will not pretend
My tours are walking plus public transport, at your pace. We rest when the day asks for it. We stop for a snack or a proper meal if you want one. I do not do food tours. I have eaten in well over 1,400 restaurants in this city and I know where not to take you. Most layover guests would rather see the place than sit for 90 minutes over a set lunch. If you are the exception, say so.
I will not pretend Hong Kong is flat. I will not pretend Victoria Peak is worth it in cloud. I will not pretend a jewellery factory is culture. I will not pretend I speak fluent Cantonese after 50+ years, because I do not. I will not pretend a 4 hour connection is a city tour. I will not put you on a coach. I will not add a surprise shopping stop. I will not take a deposit and I will not chase you through an app. I will not put you on a train in town and call that airport drop off.
I am 65. I am a Yorkshireman from Middlesbrough and the accent is still there. I left school at 16. I have been walking this city since I was 11. The work suits people who want the place explained by someone who stayed, not recited by someone who memorised a card.
Prices, cash on the day, no deposit
Prices are the total fee for the group, not a per person fee. They are published in US$ because that is still the main private tour booking market. To think in Hong Kong dollars, multiply by 7.80. So a 6 hour tour for 2 people at US$620 is about HK$4,836. A 4 hour tour for 1 person at US$410 is about HK$3,198. Those figures are examples of how the arithmetic works. They are not a promise that the grid has stood still.
The only valid and up to date price list is on my Prices | Book Now page. Please use that page, not an old table copied from an earlier blog post. Rates move, and I would rather you see the live grid than a figure that has been sitting in an old article.
I do not take a deposit. You pay on the day, in cash, in US$ or HK$. About 90% of guests pay in US$ cash. Children 17 and under, travelling with a paying adult, are free. A 5th or 6th adult is extra. I prefer 4 or fewer. Maximum 6. There is no price difference between a so called standard tour and a custom tour, because every tour is custom. There is no surcharge for airport pickup on a layover tour.
What the fee includes, in plain terms. I handle ordinary public transport on the day and I pay my own fares. Buses, minibuses, ferries, Street Trams, the MTR (Subway). Short urban taxi hops at my discretion.
What the fee does not include. The Airport Express. The Peak Tram. The Ngong Ping 360 cable car. Meals, drinks, souvenirs, private cars. Budget HK$400 to HK$500, about US$50 to US$65, in cash per adult for tickets and food. I will not ambush you with extras.
What to write when you contact me
I do not take phone calls. Everything in writing. That has been the rule since 2010. WhatsApp is fine. Email is fine. The site form is fine. The number is +852 65325013. I reply within 24 hours.
Send me the unglamorous facts. They are the useful ones.
Arrival flight number, arrival date and scheduled landing time.
Departure flight number and scheduled take off time.
Whether bags are checked through or need left luggage.
How many people, ages if that matters, and how you walk.
Whether anyone in the party would rather sit than climb.
Anything you already know you want, or already know you do not want. Temples, markets, harbour, Victoria Peak, no shopping. Be blunt.
If a cruise ship is involved, the name of the ship.
and you name as well, I get far too many one line enquiries from people “fishing” who cannot even be bothered to give me their name, I simply like to know who I am dealing with
Then go to the Prices | Book Now page for the live grid, the booking form and the calendar. The calendar is a guide only. You cannot click it to book. A blank day can still have a gap. A marked day can still have a morning. Last minute bookings are possible with 24 hours' notice if I am free. First come, first served. You do not even have to fill in the booking form, we can handle it by email or whatsapp if that suits you better.
If your flight moves
Airport layover and transit tours are the only bookings I do that are regularly plagued by no shows. I get paid at the start of the tour, in cash, on the day. If you are not there, I am not paid. I can live with that. What I cannot live with is standing in the arrivals hall waiting for 4 or 5 hours for someone who is already on a different aircraft, or who changed their mind at 5am and did not say.
The rule is simple. I have your flight arrival time. Most people come through immigration 45 to 60 minutes after landing. I will wait 1 extra hour on top of that, then I go home. If the flight has arrived, you have 2 hours from landing to let me know if there is a problem.
If your plane is delayed, or your plans change at the last second, or you simply cannot make the tour, tell me. Email or WhatsApp. The number is +852 65325013. A short message is enough. I do not need a speech. I need to know I am not waiting for 4 or 5 hours.
It happens. Connections move. People get stuck airside. People decide the clock is too tight after all. That is travel. Just do not leave me in Arrival Hall A or B guessing..
Three insider tips I still give every layover | transit guest
Tip 1. The airport money changer
Change a little at the airport if you must. Do not change a lot. You will lose about 10% against the rate in town. The concession is expensive. The price of that concession comes out of your notes.
Tip 2. Book the guide, not the platform
If you book on a big platform like Viator you generally have no say in who walks toward you in the arrivals hall. For a layover that person is the tour. Look at the company site. Look at the reviews of the name. Then book there.
Tip 3. Public transport is the point, not the compromise
People who only see Hong Kong from the back of a car leave with a skyline. People who ride the Airport Express, the Star Ferry, the Street Tram and the MTR (Subway) leave with a city. We go at your pace. I have never owned or driven a car here. After 50+ years I know which train and which ferry will do the work. And I am on that train with you, both ways.
Why book a 2027 layover with me rather than hope the airport explains the city
Hong Kong International Airport is very good at being an airport. It is clean, it is quick and efficient, and it will happily sell you a watch you did not come to Hong Kong to own. It will not tell you why English is still on the signs, why the harbour looks the way it does, why 1997 still sits under the conversation, or which of the 4 views on Victoria Peak is the one that fits your legs and the cloud on that particular morning.
I will. I will also get you back, not to a station in town, to immigration in the departures hall. Write to me. Send the two flight numbers. Tell me how you walk. If the clock is too short I will say so. If the clock is long enough we will leave the terminal and see Hong Kong.
Book the tour
Go to my Prices | Book Now page for the live price grid, the booking form and the calendar that shows my availability. Or send a short email. Or a WhatsApp message to +852 65325013. Names, numbers of people, the two flights, the date, how you walk. I will come back to you in writing, generally within 24 hours or less
Just you, your family or your friends, and me. 1 to 6 people. 4 to 8 hours, or the length the flights will honestly carry. Airport pickup between 6am and 8am or whatever time is convenient for you. Airport drop off at immigration in the departures hall. A real look at Hong Kong between the two gates.
Customised private tours and experiences in Hong Kong. I have lived here since 2nd January 1972. Tour group size 1 to 6 people only. I do not do food tours. I do not do hiking tours. I do not do car tours. I know great people who do. 2,400+ private tours completed.
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I do not do Food Tours in Hong Kong but I know people that do!
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The information above can be shown to restaurant managers in Hong Kong if you are intolerant to gluten and nuts,
I do not do food tours as mentioned above, I have very specific reasons and part of it is that I do not speak Cantonese or write Chinese, I am from Yorkshire in England and I lack the language gene and it is not through lack of trying and yes a lot of restaurants do not have English menu’s or staff who speak conversational English.
.. and yet I have eaten at close to 1,400 restaurants in Hong Kong since January 2nd 1972, my wife was born in Hong Kong and we have been together over 40 years and her first language is Cantonese and a lot of her family are Chinese or half Chinese so I have never had much of an issue!
This does not translate to doing food tours though, yes, I could do them, no problem there but they would never ever be as good as the food tours done by my friends (see the 3 links above) most of their awesome guides are locally born Hong Kong Chinese and obviously food culture is part of their DNA, it is impossible for me to compete with that!
So please feel free to contact them for food tours
I do not do Hiking Tours in Hong Kong but I know someone that does!
I do not do Hiking Tours, never have and never will even though I used to go Hiking a lot when I was a lot younger, The Hong Kong Government is promoting hiking tours so I urge you to contact my friend Sabrina at Hong Kong Trails and Tours, she is a long time Hong Kong resident and and a very experienced hiker with close to 700 Hikes in 15+ years under her belt, please click on the link below
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