"The guidebook lists the Big Buddha at the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island as one of the ten 'must-sees'. So we went and we saw. He was big. World's largest oudoor seated Buddha.. ..."
"Well today i woke up on my birthday in Ho Chii Minh city and after the lovely people at the Metrople sung and gave me flowers at breakfast (which Ral told me were from him) we were ..."
"We still wanted to stay in Hong Kong longer than a week but eating into our budget much too quickly. There was the option of rearranging our Bangkok flight, all we needed to do is ..."
"Hong Kong bears many similarities to London; its crowded, noisey and polluted but everything is also very quick, clean and efficient. The last couple of days we ventured down onto ..."
"After my efforts getting lost in Mong Kok, and all the frustration of day one in HK, I decided to head out of town. Lantau is the major island next west from HK island, and is reac ..."
"I was reading on the plane today about the whimsicle midseventeenth century life of Madeleine de Scudery, who claims "you marry to loathe. This is why a true lover should never spe ..."