Blogs from Lantau Island, Hong Kong, Asia - page 4

What up What up friends, so some of you have been asking me about my travels and I figured in order to not spam Facebook I will make a separate blog to share my experiences. If you're here to hate, I suggest you stop reading now. Because I don't care about the opinions of close-minded people. Anyways let me begin. So this year started off pretty rough, I'll save the details. Thankfully I saved up some money to travel and decided that I would hit up a couple of places this summer, the first destination that I am visiting is Hong Kong. Now when you hear Hong Kong, the first thing you probably think of is high-rise urban buildings and people cluster. However, where I am staying in Hong Kong is not the stereotypical overpopulated, people ... read more

Hong Kong is actually huge and it is not just a city. There is a lot of mountains covered with forest and on the coast line one can find plenty of sand beaches. So today I was on the metro and then bus for almost 2h to go to the Tian Tan Buddha. It is the biggest statue of a seating Buddha in the world (62m tall). The statue itself is impressive but you only get a feel of its size when you see it from afar. I am glad I decided to spend some time here and took the time to walk the wisdom path and then to off track to go around the mountain and get a glimpse at the statue for the top of some rocks. It required a little bit of climbing ... read more

Sometime in October we had an e-mail from our friend Dave in the UK who had managed to co-ordinate his holiday time with one of our trips to Hong Kong in mid-November. Unfortunately, we would only have one day and one night before Dave and his friend, Rob were due to fly to Cambodia so we jumped at the chance to meet up. As regular visitors to Hong Kong we were racking our brains for a new thing we could do while we were on this visit. We have already been up Victoria Peak more times than we’d like to admit and we knew that Dave and Rob wouldn’t want to shop all day . So we decided on an action plan - visit the Big Buddha on Lantau island, afternoon cocktails and then a nice ... read more

It rained heavily overnight so I slept late to avoid it in the morning. By the time I left things had dried considerably. My strategy worked!I took the MTR to Lantau and then took bus 23 to the Big Buddha. The cable car is nicer (and easier on the stomach) but the bus is far cheaper.The Buddha looked glorious as the sun was poking through the clouds for the first time in weeks. I skipped a proper visit, though. Due to the holiday, it was a bit crowded.I took a quick look around the monastery--I'd never visited before--and then continued onwards to the Wisdom Path, fifteen minutes further along the path.I'd been hoping to stop and have some tea at the Tea Garden, but it looks very closed and like it hasn't been open in years. ... read more

Oct. 13 Hong Kong Disneyland!! Those who know us will not be surprised that we succumbed to the lure of Disneyland on our free day, being frequent visitors to Disney World and California Disneyland, as well as one-time EuroDisney visitors. The opportunity to compare was just too enticing to pass up. Warning: if you are not Disney fans, this will probably not interest you! The metro ride from our hotel in the center of Hong Kong Island to the gate took about one and a quarter hours but was very easy to navigate using the station maps. This was a Saturday, so we expected crowds but were pleasantly surprised to walk right up to a ticket window with no line. The daily pass cost about $50 US. Opening time was late, 10:30, so we were there ... read more