Monday, January 20th,
2014
On my second full day in Hong Kong I accidentally stayed up until 4:30am
and slept until 1pm, but it was MY vacation, and was therefore all good. I spent a leisurely hour or so taking the nicest shower and getting ready to find the beach.
I went to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant and took lunch to go (by the way, ick, plain congee is disgusting),
then took two metros to get to Lantau Island, then a bus to get to Cheung Sha Beach (which involved asking a tourism agent how to get to "any beach, because all I need is to be by the water").
There weren’t more than
five people on the beach at one time for the two hours that I was there, and
the weather was perfect, albeit a bit chilly. I was outnumbered 2:1 by dogs at
one point; two dogs (separately) came up to and sniffed/nuzzled me. Oh, and I went in the water! Only up to my
ankles, but just being by the water was enough. It was so ridiculously peaceful
and serene.
More people showed up around 4:30,
but they stayed away and we left each other alone, so it was fine.
After about two hours on the beach
I went back to the bus stop. I had just enough time to take a picture of the
anti-incinerator banner and run to the bus. Luckily, someone else was getting
off, which bought me some time. The bus was completely full so I sat on the
entrance steps (I felt like I was back in Israel for some reason—maybe that was
due to the Russians behind me). As usual, I was laughed at (nicely) when I
asked a fellow step-sitter to take my picture.
The beach, bus rides, and even parts of the metro journeys could not have been more gorgeous. My trek began in the mid-afternoon and ended around sunset. At the end of the day I went back to my host’s apartment and had my second home-cooked (by someone else!) meal of the week.
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