Blogs from Lantau Island, Hong Kong, Asia - page 11

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 Buddha by boat and bus. This trip took about one and a half hour. The information over the Po Lin Monastery and the Big Buddha is provided by the website of the Po Lin Monastery and the Hong Kong Tourist Board. Many thanks for the information. Information about the Po Lin Monastery and the Big Buddha. The Po Lin Monastery was initially known as ... read more

Right not written one of these blogs before…I guess I blither on about the stuff we’ve done and then post it on the internet for people to ignore at their own leisure! At the minute I’m sat in our hostel in Melbourne - Caroline’s having a kip, it’s our last night in the hostel…but back to the beginning. We flew from Heathrow to Hong Kong 10 days ago, I had been looking forward to getting on a big aeroplane for ages and it turns out I was right to be so excited (it was big - see the picture). After 11 hours of eating, playing video games and watching films we landed first thing in the morning in Hong Kong - though our bodies were telling us it was mid afternoon…and that I should have been ... read more

Hongkong-Macau Getaway! It was December of 2008 when I decided to get a ticket thru online booking to Hongkong and Macau. As usual, i planned instantly and called my travel buddy Gie, college friend. All set, Hongkong trip is scheduled on March 11, 2009 and exit will be in Macau on March 14, 2009. The most awaited day came and we headed to Terminal 3 at around 5:00 in the morning. Flight is at 8:00 am. Just have with me 1 backpack and a bag for my camera, passport and everything handy. No check-in baggage. I love travelling light. We set foot at the Hongkong International Airport at 10:00 in the morning, then headed to the area where we will meet our guide. We ride in this Vigor shuttle bus which brought us to Caritas Bianchi ... read more

For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com It only seems appropriate to celebrate Chinese New Year by going to...you guessed it, China! So that is exactly what we did. In fact, our main intention was to revisit Shenzhen, the city that I spent half a year living and working in (and Marc another year before me). The crackdown on working visas in the lead up to the Olympics split apart our great group of friends, but this chance to visit offered us a final opportunity for a little reunion before everybody went their separate ways. Our journey to China began as it usually does, with a night spent in mighty Hong Kong, one of the great economic and cultural centers of the world, awaiting our Chinese visas to get ... read more

Arriving in Hong Kong airport was a rather pleasant experience, being confident enough with the transport system to know where to catch the busses, and what bus to catch was a bit of a good feeling (one of many perks and good feelings of re-visiting a foreign city you already know). Despite everything being familiar however, it was to some extent different- the winter weather was a big change to the early Autumn of my last visit. But with darling (though sometimes tacky) Christmas decorations everywhere, and a cool crispness to the air that was not quite uncomfortable, it was definitely well that Hong Kong wore its colder weather. I arrived at a decent hour to Lou and John's new place in Discovery Bay, and got a good night's sleep. The next morning I went to ... read more