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Lamma Island


Above: a pavilion on Lamma Island overlooking Sok Kwu Wan with its seafood restaurants and floating fish farms. Send as e-card
After seeing all the sights, you will have had a large dose of Hong Kong crowds. If you want to get away, you can try Lamma Island.

It is a small island still relatively quiet, with a few trails on it. And: no cars!! (Well, except a few small go-cart-like goods vehicles.) On it you will find small shops, some paved trails, a few small vegetable fields, a few beaches, and seafood restaurants.

You can take a ferry from one of the outlying island piers just west of the Star Ferry pier in Central. (At the time of writing, it is pier number 4.)

The ferry fare on weekdays is a bit cheaper than weekends. The island is also quieter. If you really like to get some laid back time, there are holiday lodges for rent at quite reasonable prices by Hong Kong standard.

Yung Shu Wan Ferry Piertrail on Lamma
Above left: the ferry pier on Lamma Island. Above right: a trail with a view

Above: huts on stilts near the ferry pier.
beach on Lamma Island
Above left: there's scenery uncommon in urban Hong Kong: treesAbove right: one of the beaches

Above right: a push cart chained to the railing near the ferry pier. It must have a habit of running off with sailors.

Above: "grandma's" tofu gelatin, a popular shop run by an old lady selling tasty "tofu fa"
a lot of don'ts at the beach
fresh seafood
Above: live seafood for you to choose for dinner
burnt down temple left with the front
Lamma Island night scene
Shown below is the Outlying Island Ferry Pier 4 in Central and the IFC just across from it:
 

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