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 2007, 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 again in 2008.  The "warm-up" race will be held on 1 May 08 which is a public holiday while the Dragon boat festival falls on 8 June in 2008.

There is also the Short Course race which is held 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.

For more details, see Stanley International Dragon Boat site