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Travel Blogs from Ngong Ping, Hong Kong
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Buddah
Ah, the cheeky Buddah. This big fella sits atop the mountain at Ngong Ping on Lantau Island to the south west of Hong Kong city. We headed out on a somewhat hazy day armed with our guide book and camera to see the Big Buddah on the hill. Now the ...
Whoa, what a Big Buddha!
... on Lantau Island. There we walked to a bus station and boarded a bus to visit the Big Buddha and the Buddhist monastery in Ngong Ping. During the drive, I thought my feet would never touch the ground again. Our bus driver to visit the Big Buddha was ...
Day 5 - The Giant Buddah
Today we started off with a buffet breakfast at the bistro of the Holiday Inn. After breakfast we went straight out to the lobby to meet our tour guide who put us on a bus that took us to the ferry where we took a catamaran to Lantau Island. Once there ...
Tian Tin Buddha Statue & Po Lin Monastery
... up the side of a mountain. Train and I decided to splurge for the glass bottomed cable car (courtesy of the Wynn Macau) so we could see everything on the way up. A brisk day in Hong Kong turned into damn cold when we reached Ngong ...
Lantau Island at Hong Kong
The last day in Hong Kong was something relaxing. The whole day on Lantau Island. First we went to the Tian Tan Buddha, and finally we spend a couple of hours at the beach at Mui ...
Giant Buddhas (& Cows) & Rats
... get there. Took MTR to Tung Chung Station then over to the Cable Car Terminal for tickets for a 30 minute ride to the Ngong Ping Terminal. Another huge line up. We splurged on a glass bottom cable car and were pulled from the long line into a short ...
Little Buddha meets Big Buddha
What an amazing day! Went to the Po Lin Monestery located on the Ngong Ping plateau on Lantau Island on the suggestion by my good friend and ex co-worker from Equiserve, Raj Patel. Thanks, Rajbo! I plan on visiting him and his family in Kuala ...
More Sights of Hong Kong!!
... 100 islands that are considered Hong Kong. Lantau Island is the biggest of these and this is actually the island where Disneyland Hong Kong is located. (I have now SEEN Disneyland in three different countries although I have no gone to them...if we had ...
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