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Bride’s Pool

Nicole Slater investigates the urban legend behind the popular waterfall destination

Located in the northeastern New Territories in Plover Cove Country Park, Bride's Pool is a scenic area, made up of several waterfalls and pools. Many families and hikers enjoy this area for it’s shady trail and cooling waters on a hot summer’s day.

While this whimsical location may sound like the perfect day out, the tale behind its name may stop you in your tracks.

Legend believes that a bride-to-be was carried along the pools by four porters in a sedan chair on her way to meet her groom during a storm. One of the porters slipped and all five of them fell over the waterfall and drowned in the pool below. She never made it to her groom and is believed to lurk around the pools dressed in her traditional gown.

While the story is just folk law, Bride’s Pool has been listed as a hiking accident black spot by the Hong Kong Government, after a series of serious accidents and fatalities in the area. Two of which took place earlier this year.

In March, a 59-year-old man plunged 40-metres to his death. A week later a 35-year-old man was left in a critical condition after attempting to walk along the waterfall trek.

While there is no proof the bride is behind these incidents, Bride’s Pool is notoriously dangerous and the government advises hikers to avoid the area.