Today myself, Andrew and Brian decided to take a trek, a journey, an excursion call it whatever you like. We left Caritas (our home of sorts) at twelve to depart on a trip to find beaches and cliff diving, we did not know exactly how to get there. We took the train a few stops past where we go for school and found the minibus that runs to Sai Kung. Sai Kung is an area out in the New Territories of Hong Kong and it is a rather calm area when compared to the hustle of HK. Upon arriving in Sai Kung we proceeded to ask locals if they knew where Sai Wan was, we were pointed to the number 94 bus. We got on the bus not knowing where to get off, we just figured we would wing it. Sitting on the bus we happened to ask what appeared to be a local if he knew where to go cliff jumping, it turns out that he grew up in HK but moved to Vancouver for work and was back in HK getting his MBA. This guy, whose name we did not catch gave the best directions he could and from the research we had done he sounded correct. We got off the bus at the entrance to the country park and started our walk. Today's weather was quite nice, blue skies with a minimal amount of clouds, the only problem was that it was about 98 degrees. We started our walk and shortly came to a fork, taking the left route, which lead to the beach we were looking for, we were quickly stunned by the massive reservoir that lay in front of us. This was by far, nothing even close to it, the nicest reservoir that I have ever seen. This reservoir made the Caribbean look like the Jersey Shore. Upon arriving to the start of this hike with an amazingly uplifting view we were shortly crestfallen when we discovered that it was to be a ten kilometer hike that was estimated to take two and a half hours. While this news was bad news we took in stride and started off on our hike to what is said to be the best beach in Hong Kong. We walked and we walked some more getting some great views of the reservoir and eventually after quite some time arrived, no one knew exactly how long it took since we didn't check the time at the start. Upon arriving all our tired and sore muscles were instantly relieved at the site of a deserted beach with only a few yachts moored offshore but no one was on the beach. Surrounded by massive hills and mountains we were in our own paradise. We hung out in the water, which was clear and almost to warm, for a few hours and then decided to try and find a way home seeing as the sun was getting low and we didn't want to hike back. We grabbed a ride on a junk/motorboat that two engineers had taken to the beach, on the boat we saw the true beauty of Hong Kong and for most of the trip we were speechless. We arrived at an unknown pier and were lucky to find a bus stop, it was getting dark. We arrived back our home a little over an hour later and were thankful for showers and food, we hadn't eaten since prior to our departure. A successful day that somehow resulted in little to no sunburn.
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