Dragon Boat Races at Stanley

Like most places in Hong Kong which were once fishing villages Stanley celebrates the once a year Dragon Boat festival, with boat races in the sea.

Every year, normally on the Dragon Boat Festival day, a series of dragon boat races will be held.  In 2006, however, they also started a "Warm-up" race before the festival day regatta and it was widely popular and successful that they are going to have it every year.

The "warm-up" race was held about one month before the festival day. Many teams participate because they all anxious to know how are they doing compare to the other teams after all these practicing.

On the festival day, there is the International Dragon Boat Championship race.

There is also the Short Course race which is held about 2 weeks after the Dragon Boat Festival, roughly near the HKSAR Establishment Day so it's also called the Reunification Cup.

All visitors should go to the Stanley main beach to see the races and admission is free.

Dragon Boat Race 2012 at Stanley, Hong Kong.

For more details, see Stanley International Dragon Boat site