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| View from the cable car |
We had a late start on Tuesday as Scott's friends Adam and Zara overslept due to jetlag, and I took the opportunity to get a long overdue haircut, which was an experience it itself; Mikey's will never be the same again! Finally, around lunchtime, we took our longest trip so far on the MTR, to Tung Chung on Lantau Island. After a quick lunch here we took the cable car to Ngong Ping.
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| The buddha is the one in the background |
The cable car ride is quite long and provides spectacular views of the mountainous landscape, and also the airport as we climbed up the first section. The ride is worth taking for its own sake, but when you get near Ngong Ping you get first sight of the Buddha, Tian Tan, sat on a hilltop in the distance - and its a very big Buddha.
After disembarking from the cable car we walked through Ngong Ping (which is basically a tourist trap full of shops) to the base of the hill that the Buddha sits on. Laura, Scott, Adam and Zara climbed the long flight of steps to the top, but I stayed with Sally at bottom as her back was playing up. We also visited Po Lin monastery, before making our way back to the cable car for the return journey, where we found a huge queue of people waiting. It took over an hour to get on the cable car and we had a quite surreal ride back as the cable car had no lights.
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| Tian Tan |
We were now running quite late, and we only had a few minutes at the apartment before we had to go back out, as we were having an evening meal in the Wan Chai district on Hong Kong Island. The meal was really good; Sally said it was the best chinese meal she'd ever had.
Afterwards we went for a drink in this slightly seedy area, and after a few more, the girls decided to go back and leave the boys to have another drink. It was nearly 4 o'clock before we got back and that's why this post is a day late.
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