Big Buddha Revisited

We haven’t spent much time planning our time in Hong Kong, so the first thing we did today was to think about what we should do this visit. We both enjoyed visiting the Big Buddha on our first visit, so we thought that we would go back again. Last time we took the bus up the mountain, which took some time but was an interesting trip. There is now a cable car that goes from Tung Chung up the mountain to Ngong Ping, a new village near the Buddha.

The trip up on the cable car was really interesting. We got some really good views of airport, Lantau Island, and the Budda. At the top Ngong Ping is an interesting little area consisting of a number of shops selling a wide variety of things. It reminded me a little of a theme park. It was a little disappointing as the atmosphere of the place was very different from our last visit.

We headed through the village toward the monastery and Buddha. We decided not to go up to the Buddha again, but walked around the monastery. Even the atmosphere here was a little different, but much more of what I remembered. There were more shops selling food around the monastery and it tended to have a bit of a tacky feel.

Heading out from the monastery we were going to head back, but noticed a small path to the Path of Wisdom. Without knowing what it would lead to we decided to head down the path and see what we found. The path wound up hill through the forest for about ten minutes before we ended at the Path of Wisdom. The path is a set of large wooden pillars with inscriptions describing the path of wisdom… however without any English signs we were not enlightened.

From here it was back to Tsing Yi for lunch and a look around Maritime Square – Tsing Yi is where we have stayed on our previous visits to Hong Kong, so it was interesting to see the changes in the shopping centre. Unfortunately our two favourite shops have gone, but the good restaurants are still there!

A

Skyrail to the Big Buddha

Hong Kong

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Its somewhere around here :)

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