Beach Please

So... it's already Thursday! That means I missed my Wedding Wednesday post yesterday awww :( Well, don't worry I didn't have much to say this week! Yesterday was a public holiday in Hong Kong but that doesn't mean I got to rest! I had a 10-hour shooting for a tv commercial... I'm exhausted!

This post is kinda overdue too, it's from two weekends ago when J and I went to Long Ke Beach in Sai Kung! As I mentioned when I first blogged about it, I think it's the best beach in Hong Kong, so perfect, so calm, so clean! I was wearing this nice one-shoulder ruffled swimsuit from my fashion and accessories shop, Frill Me. I love it, the quality is great and it fits my body so well :)

To get to Long Ke beach you need to walk around 20 minutes, but the whole journey is perfect, overlooking the beach from the mountain... Just priceless.

Long Ke beach: Hong Kong's best beach

Yesterday I finally decided on going to Long Ke beach in Sai Kung. I had been wanting to go there for years, but never really ended up doing it. The reason why this trip requires a bit of preparation in advance is that you cannot get to Long Ke by any means of transportation, you need to walk at least 30 minutes after previously having taken a cab for another 30 minutes from Sai Kung. Alternatively you can skip the taxi and hike all the way, a nice hiking path that will take you about 3 hours to complete. 

If you decide on the taxi option, expect to pay HK$100 for the half an hour ride from Sai Kung to the end of the route, past the East Dam. From there, you will need to follow the MacLehose Trail for half an hour to get to Long Ke. The path is safe and easy enough to hike with children. Once in Long Ke, you can camp for the night at Long Ke's campsite. Don't expect to find any shower though, all you get there is one single toilet. Long Ke doesn't even get mobile phone signal, but don't worry, I believe there is an emergency phone in case something happens. This is the prettiest and most relaxing beach I've ever been to in Hong Kong. Not a lot of people venture to it, making it the perfect spot to enjoy a beach day away from Hong Kong's frenzy. I'm not sure words can express the beauty of this beach that has become my favorite, but I hope these pictures will.

Wakeboarding in Sai Kung

As I was telling you on Sunday's post, I went wakeboarding in Sai Kung on Saturday. In Hong Kong, people usually do wakeboard when they go on the so-called "boat trip", consisting of a group of friends renting a big boat to go out in the sea, usually to Sai Kung, to spend the day there having fun in the boat playing games, singing karaoke, or in the water playing water sports such as wakeboarding or banana, or simply swimming to the nearest beach to play some ball games there. This time however, we just wanted to do wakeboarding, a lot of it, so we decided to rent a small boat just for this purpose. The rental fee for this kind of boat is around HK$600 per hour. We rented it from 3pm to 6pm among a group of 5, so each of us ended up doing wakeboard for about half an hour. This was my fourth time doing wakeboard and I did quite well! I could even zig-zag and go out of the waves and in again, I really enjoyed myself! All in all this was a perfect Saturday and I couldn't recommend the experience enough! Here are some pics and a video to help you understand better! Make sure you don't miss my hilarious fall on my video :D

Time to go back!

Our boat is leaving! Bye!

Clear Water Bay - 2nd Beach

Last Saturday I spent my afternoon in Clear Water Bay. This beach is not as pretty as my favorite one that I reviewed here, but it's the most convenient one from my home, so I come here more often than not. There's two beaches in Clear Water Bay, the 1st beach and the 2nd beach, and most people go to the second one because it's the one with the parking lot and it's bigger. The sand is not of the best quality and there are some rocks inside the sea, but it's still a gorgeous beach! What I specially like is that there is an area for kids (or grown-ups!) to make sand castles or any kind of sand art.