Lantau Island

Tuesday 13/Nov/2012 - LANTAU ISLAND, Hong Kong

How to get to the giant Buddha in an alternative way?
- walk from the hotel to the Kowloon Star Ferry pier (10 minutes),
- buy the "Star Ferry" ticket (2HK$, ~0.20€) and wait 5 minutes,
- take the ferry from Kowloon to Central (Hong Kong Island), sail for 10 minutes,
- buy the "First" ferry ticket (28.40HK$ for the fast ferry, ~2.80€) and wait 20 minutes,
- take the ferry from Central pier 7 to Lantau Island,
- admire for 30 minutes the many islands (or 55minutes, on the slow ferry, 14.50HK$)
- leave the ferry at Mui We, Sivermine Bay
- take bus line number 2 to Ngong Ping (17.2HK$), along a very scenic road, 
- leave the bus 45 minutes later, at the Po Lin stop.
- merge with the "tourists" arriving by cable car directly from the Tung Chung metro station.

Ferry stop in Mui We, Silvermine Bay.

Ngong Ping, Po Lin Monastery

First glimpse on the 24m high Buddha,

World's largest bronze sitting Buddha.

Stairs to reach the statue.

People offering incense.

Vedge lunch, taken with the monks of the monastery (70HK$, ~7€)

Hiking from the Monastery down to the Shek Pik reservoir (30minutes + 2 hours).

First a little segment of the longer Lantau Trail.

The Wisdom path, Ngong Ping garden.

Start of the Shek Pik trail.

The Buddha statue can still be seen at the horizon.

The reservoir and the Ocean behind.

I took many, many, many steps this day!

  

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