St Stephen's Beach & Military Cemetery

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    bus: 6A or 14

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St Stephen's Beach, which has a café, showers and changing rooms, is south of the village. In summer you can hire windsurfing boards and kayaks from the water sports centre. To reach the beach, walk south along Wong Ma Kok Rd. Turn west (ie right) when you get to a small road (Wong Ma Kok Path) leading down to a jetty.

At the end of the road, turn south and walk past the boathouse to the beach. Bus 14 or 6A will take you close to the intersection with the small road.

Well worth a look is Stanley Military Cemetery for armed forces personnel and their families. The oldest graves date back to 1843 and are an intriguing document of the colonial era. The earlier graves show just how much of a toll disease took on European settlers, while the number of graves from the early 1940s serves as a reminder of the many who died in the fight for Hong Kong and during subsequent internment at the hands of occupying Japanese forces. The cemetery is just opposite the bus stop.