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I was now sailing towards a city that I’d left only 5 days ago, but one I hadn’t expected to see again for quite some time. As the skyscrapers of Central got ever nearer, a guilty sensation washed over me as if to say: “I shouldn’t actually be here! It’s completely against the grain, contrary to all of my plans”.
My final two days in Fragrant Harbour unfolded as follows: after a pick up by a life saving public bus in Sai Kung, and a meal in the even bigger life saver of McDonalds, I partook in a rare shopping excursion for men’s clothing in Langham Place (seeing that male attire here is both way cooler and way cheaper than back home).
It was 6 a.m. The sun had sneaked back into the sky and we were reluctantly ready to leave the remote refuge we’d grown to love. Two nights ago we clambered down a shadowy jungle path for half a mile to reach Pak Lap Village. Before that, we were revved through an enchanting starlit panorama now too tempting to be whisked past again.
If I didn’t think it could get any better than Cheung Chau, I was wrong. Our latest adventure saw us being dropped off by a taxi in the middle of no where, in the dark. No, we weren’t deranged – it was just as close as we could get to our accommodation for the next two nights before having to go it on foot.
Cheung Chau is a small island about an hour by ferry from Central Hong Kong and just off the coast of Lantau. It welcomes city dwellers into a few days of easy going respite, and it does this very amiably with plenty of attractive landscape, an array of pallet enticing waterfront restaurants and a friendly close-knit island atmosphere.
