About the Hike
Location: Mount Davis, HK Island
Length: 5 to 7km – we started from Kennedy Town MTR; it’s a shorter walk if you start at Victoria Road and the Mt Davis Path
Level: Easy to moderate, with a path on the way up, and shrubbery and some scrambling on the way down
What is it?
Mount Davis is the westernmost hill on Hong Kong Island; it’s sandwiched in between Kennedy Town and Sandy Bay. Named after Sir John Francis Davis, who was the 2nd Governor of Hong Kong (1844 to 1848), the hill is 269m high. It’s scattered with remains of the gun positions of the Mount Davis Batteries, which protected the Western districts of Hong Kong Island during the Second World War. It takes around 30 minutes to reach the old military buildings from the bottom of the hill.
The mount’s military past
This story is from the March-May 2021 edition of EL Hong Kong.
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