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Pui O, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Pui O is a village and camping area in South Lantau, Hong Kong, at the edge of Lantau South Country Park.
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Where to stay in Pui O
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Beds here are village beds. Pui O draws campers rather than hotel guests, and the usual arrangement is a rented village house in one of the four settlements that make up the area. Those four are Lo Wai, San Wai, Lo Uk and Ham Tin.
None of them holds a hotel quarter, so the choice comes down to a lane, and what separates the four is how close each sits to the camping ground and to the boundary of Lantau South Country Park.
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Ham Tin
Ham Tin is one of the four Pui O villages whose houses are let out by the weekend, so a bed here is somebody's spare village room. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Ham Tinwalkers who want the Lantau South Country Park edge a lane awayLo Wai
Lo Wai stands among the older Pui O clusters, near where the ground gives way to the Lantau South Country Park boundary. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in Lo Waiguests wanting a San Wai or Lo Uk address away from the camping groundSan Wai and Lo Uk
San Wai and Lo Uk complete the set of four Pui O villages, and between them they hold the quieter of the area's lanes. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in San Wai and Lo UkHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Pui O
What are the main landmarks in Pui O?
Pui O has no monuments to list. Its draw is Lantau South Country Park, whose boundary runs along the edge of the area and gives the place a wall of protected ground instead of a skyline. Holiday camping is the other fixture, and it is what pulls visitors out here from the rest of Hong Kong.
Village fabric supplies the rest. Lo Wai, San Wai, Lo Uk and Ham Tin each hold a cluster of houses, some of them let to visitors, and together they give the area whatever built character it has.
What is the history of Pui O?
Pui O carried a longer name. The area was formerly Lo Pui O, and the shorter form is the one that came to be used for this stretch of Lantau Island. Settlement here is spread across four villages rather than gathered into one: Lo Wai, San Wai, Lo Uk and Ham Tin.
That pattern still holds. What has been added since is a visitor trade, with holiday camping and rented village houses layered onto a South Lantau community that predates both.
Where is Pui O?
Pui O lies in South Lantau on Lantau Island, with the boundary of Lantau South Country Park running along its inland edge.
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What is the best area to stay in Pui O?
Ham Tin: campers who would rather take a Ham Tin village house than pitch a tent. Lo Wai: walkers who want the Lantau South Country Park edge a lane away. San Wai and Lo Uk: guests wanting a San Wai or Lo Uk address away from the camping ground.
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Updated September 2026