The forty-minute ride on bus #91 from Choi Hung MTR to ClearWater Bay already gives an idea of the delightful combination of green hills and sea that awaits you. Around the terminus at Tai Au Mun, overlooking ClearWater Bay, are a couple of excellent, clean beaches, and to the south is the start of a good three- to four-hour walk around the bay. First, follow the road south along the clifftop, as far as the Clear Water Bay Golf and Country Club (to use the ten- nis, swimming and golf facilities of this luxury club, visitors must join HKTB’s “Sports and Recreation Tour”, which costs $430 plus pay-as-you-play charges). From the car park outside the club entrance, follow signposts on to the won- derfully located Tin Hau Temple in Joss House Bay. There is thought to have been a temple to the Taoist goddess of the sea here for more than eight hundred years, and although today’s temple dates back only to its last major restoration in 1962, there is a venerable feel about the place. As one of Hong Kong’s few Tin Hau temples actually still connnanding the sea, it’s of immense significance, and on the 23rd day of the third lunar month each year (Tin Hau’s birthday) a colossal seaborne celebration takes place on fishing boats in the bay.
Heading back up the slope, you can take another path which starts from the same car park outside the Golf and Country Club down past Sheung Lan Wan, a small village on the western shore of the peninsula. The path skirts the village, and continues on, forming a circular route around the headland back to the Clear Water Bay bus terminal.
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