Tai Long Wan, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Tai Long Wan?

Beaches are the whole attraction. Four main ones run along the bay, Sai Wan among them, and it is the width of the bay and the exposure of the coast that make the surf. Villages sit behind them.

Tai Long Village is the one that gives the bay its name, and the settlements along this shore are what the history section of the record turns on. Geology shapes the coast. The rock here is what gives the headlands and coves the bay is divided into.

What is the history of Tai Long Wan?

The name means big wave bay. Tai Long Wan is written Tai Long Wan and the bay's exposure to the open sea on the east coast of the Sai Kung Peninsula is what earns it. Villages came before the surfers.

Tai Long Village stands behind the shore and gives the bay its name, and the other settlements along the coast belong to the same pattern of village life on the peninsula. Geology set the shape. The rock of this coast is what divides the bay into its four main beaches, Sai Wan among them.

Reputation came last. The bay is now counted among the most beautiful places in Hong Kong and draws surfers to a coast that was for a long time simply remote.

Where is Tai Long Wan?

Tai Long Wan is a bay three kilometres wide on the east coast of the Sai Kung Peninsula in Sai Kung District, Hong Kong, with four main beaches along it including Sai Wan.