Hong Kong summers: so much to look forward to.
Hit the beach
Popular Hong Kong beach Shek O1. With more than 100 beaches in Hong Kong, it is possible to go to a different one for every day of summer. Start with 7 of Hong Kong's best beaches.2. After hibernating all winter, you may want to get some pre-tanning action in rather then turn up for the first beach day of the season looking like an under-cooked sausage. Bronze it up at Califonia Beach Club.
3. Or fake it like a pro at Om Day Spa.
4. Your tan is great, but the love handles less so. Milk the various summer promotions at the gym for a few less tyres around your middle. Try any of the giants for a good deal, such as Pure, California Fitness, Fitness First, Physical, Action Waterfall.
5. Or take advantage of the big natural gym: the great outdoors. Tackle a killer hike like the Dragon's Back, which has spectacular views and ends at Big Wave Bay, one of Hong Kong's best beach.
6. Loving the beach but not the hike? Shek O is reachable by public transport and is a great place to indulge in low-impact activities like people watching, general lazing about, and a barbecue. See Hong Kong's best public barbecue sites.
7. When we can't bear to leave the seaside after just one day we rent a beachside apartment in Cheng Chau and spend the weekend exploring.
8. A beach without its beachside drinks shack feels incomplete. Check out the awesome smoothies at Ooh La La on Pui O beach, or anything at one of Hong Kong's best beach bars.
9. Cross your fingers that Tai Long Sai Wan, Hong Kong's last pristine area, will be developed responsibly.
Jump in the water
Surf is up this summer10. Hit the waves at Tai Long Wan or Big Wave Bay for some gnarly (ish) board action. It's not the peak season for big waves in Hong Kong, but it's a helluva lot warmer.11. When surfing alone is not enough of a challenge, head over to the Cheung Chau Windsurfing Centre, where gold-medalist Lee Lai Shan was coached.
12. Already a baron of the board and a wizard at windsurfing, then maybe kitesurfing is the challenge you need. Check out Shui Hui Bay and Pui O in Lantau for the best sites.
13. Watch the pros at the Hong Kong Wakeboard Open Championship in August (date TBC).
14. Actually see some of the sea-side scenery, rather than whizzing through it, by renting a kayak for some leisurely paddling.
15. If you want to tackle something bigger than a canoe, you can also try your hand at sailing. Aberdeen Boat Club offers instruction and rentals.
16. Take a junk trip. Hong Kong's de rigueur summertime activity. Watch out for Kinky Ginko's annual Mega Junk party where around 400 people take a junk trip together.
17. Or do it low-key and catch a sampan ride around Aberdeen harbour during a warm summer night.
18. Realise that sedate seafaring is just not pushing your buttons and charter the "Black Mamba" Power Boat for a full-throttle adventure instead.
19. Go diving in Hong Kong and discover that it's not actually that polluted underwater after all.
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It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.
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