From the Cheung Chau ferry pier walk left along the praya, past the restaurants, turning right just before the sports fields. After the first (football, aka soccer) and before the second (two basketball courts) turn left (from here you can see the Pak Tai Temple), then turn right in front of the Bak She Street Public Toilet and walk up the incline. Turn left and go through the arch that says, "Chung Shak-Hei (Cheung Chau) Home for the Aged".³ Walk up the steps and keep to the left past the Home. Continue on up to the top (about 120 steps divided into several groups) to a sitting out area called the 北社長利遊樂場 Pak She Cheung Lee Playground. Going anti-clockwise around this you come first to a path going up to the 北眺亭 North Lookout Pavilion, then a path, currently marked "Access to Siu Kwai Wan via Cheung Pak Road", going down past a rubbish collection point. Soon a Protestant graveyard will appear on your right.

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Siu Kwai Wan: 小鬼灣：小貴灣
The original name was 小鬼灣 Little Ghost Bay (there is also a long one and a short one), but apparently some developers persuaded the government that this was bad commercially and so they replaced 鬼 with the homonym 貴, meaning "valuable".
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A view from the ferry.
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3. Chung Shak-Hei (Cheung Chau) Home for the Aged (鐘錫熙長洲安老院)
The Home was apparently built around a 天后廟 Tin Hau Temple, which still exists. On the wall to the right of the temple is a sign that says, "詩畫琴棋雅集紀念館 Memorial Hall for a Refined Gathering of the Arts". "The arts", literally "詩畫琴棋" Poetry, Painting, Qin and Books", is here a variant form of "琴棋書畫" (Qin, Chess, Books and Painting), the Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar.
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