Deep Water Bay Beach

This guide to Deep Water Bay Beach in Hong Kong opens with a nearly fifty-year tradition: the crowd that walks into the cold sea every New Year's Day. It then climbs the ridge behind the sand, home to some of the city's wealthiest tycoons, including the property magnate whose house looks straight down onto the beach. You'll hear how that hillside neighborhood came to be so sought after, and what still happens on the sand below it every summer weekend. Worth lingering on the barbecue pits at the shoreline while you listen.