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Po Lin Monastery and Big Buddha - Lantau Island

May 6th 2009
Dear friends, Today we visit the beautiful island of Lantau. We go by cable car from Hong Kong to the impressive bronze Big Buddha, the very old monastery Po Lin and we hike trough the mountains of Lantau. The cable car was built in 2007. It takes about 25 minutes from the mainstation Kowloon to reach the Ngong Ping 360 village. Until 2007 you only could reach the monastery and the Big Buddh ... read more

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31st October 2010

roger bradstreet
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Big Buddha - History / Built????
Thank you for giving us details re. construction of the Buddha and other details. Built Year?????

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