{"id":1309,"date":"2010-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2010-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"_mok_min_cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"\u6728\u7dbf\u6d1e Mok Min Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being the avid hiker that I was in Hong Kong, it was only fitting that my last Sunday there was spent in my favourite spot – Sai Kung (\u897f\u8ca2). Writing this blog entry now and looking at the pictures brings back such fond memories of Hong Kong that it makes me want to go back right away!
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\nWe started our coastal trek (\u6cf3\u6d83) at Pak Lap Chai (\u767d\u814a\u4ed4). This shows us moments before we went into the water. There’s me in red with my yellow float.
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\nThe winds were really strong that day, resulting in large wave action as seen from all that froth in the sea. If you look carefully, you can see some of my friends still bobbing in the water. We couldn’t get onto shore at those parts as the waves were too strong and we were carried back and forth by the waves when we attempted to climb onto the rocks. It was impossible and at one point I was seriously scared.
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\nThankfully after a while all of us managed to swim into this little cove where the waves weren’t so strong. It was there that we all managed to climb onto the rocks. Upon assessing the strength of the waves, we decided to abort the rest of the coastal trek as it was too dangerous to go into the water. Two of my friends had to be rescued by two of the guys as the two weaker ones weren’t able to swim into the cove.
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\nI LOVE SAI KUNG!!!!
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\nMok Min Cave (\u6728\u7dbf\u6d1e), one of the famous landmarks in Sai Kung.
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\nWaves crashing onto shore – we certainly didn’t want to be in the water at that spot!
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\nI can’t say it enough – I love the beauty of this place.
\n\"Mook<\/a><\/br>
\nI look like a \u50bb\u5a46 (meaning crazy woman in Cantonese) with my hair flying in all directions, but this was taken when we were standing on the other side of Mok Min Cave.
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\nAn unusally quiet Pak Lap Wan (\u767d\u814a\u7063) on a sunny Sunday. Usually the bay is dotted with yachts.
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\nWe then made our way to \u6c99\u6a4b where’s there’s a beach and seafood restaurant. It takes about 20 minutes to walk there from Pak Lap Wan (\u767d\u814a\u7063).
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\nClose to shore, we could see lots of sea urchins! There were many fishes too. It was just a bit difficult catching them on camera.
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\nOur contingent of eight who braved the choppy waters. Later that evening, we all sat down to a delicious seafood dinner at the Sai Kung town centre. My friends very generously treated me to the meal as a farewell dinner for me. It’s fantastic that I got to know this group of local hikers who go on such interesting coastal treks. Being all locals, they all naturally spoke Cantonese among themselves and this gave me a chance to practise speaking Cantonese. In the year that I was in Hong Kong, my Cantonese improved a lot and I’m a little sad that I don’t get to use the language as much back in Singapore.
\nI need to find a way to get back to Hong Kong to live!!! Ideas anyone????
\nGetting to Pak Lap Chai: From Sai Kung town centre, take a taxi and tell the taxi driver you want to go to Pak Lap. You’ll be dropped along the road and there’ll be a sign pointing down to Pak Lap Wan. You’ll have to take a 10 to 15-minute walk down. Pak Lap Chai is a small beach next to Pak Lap Wan and you can get there by walking through a path at the back and then leading left of Pak Lap Wan. The taxi fare will cost about HKD90 from Sai Kung town centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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