Kwun Yam Shan (Yuen Long District)

Kwun Yam Shan (Chinese: 觀音山) is a mountain located in northern Hong Kong and its peak is in the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden,[1] at the border of Tai Po District and Yuen Long District, branching north from the highest mountain in Hong Kong, namely Tai Mo Shan.

[2] It was mentioned in the county gazetteer because of its distinct shape, its sharp rise reaching the sky, and its religious nature to local.

The summit features a hole named Hot Pots which releasing warm misty air in the winter.

[1] Kwun Yam Shan is a popular destination for springtime cherry blossom viewing.

The rock of the mountain was mapped as granodiorite, but as in 2008 it was reclassified as altered intrusive rhyolitic hyaloclastite in Hong Kong Geological Survery.

Kwun Yam (Boddhisattva Avalokitesvara) Statue
Statue of Kwun Yam ( Boddhisattva Avalokiteśvara )
Its description in San-on County Gazetteer