Day in Lantau

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Geo: 22.3214, 114.173

Coffee at McDonalds, then caught the courtesy bus to China Terminal then the 973 bus to Stanley, had lunch and relaxed at the cafes walked through the market.  Linen was amazing but will wait until we see Shenzhen and what we can get from there.  People from here are also going but with a different company so will be interesting to see if we catch up on our tour.  We all had drinkies in the lounge and caught up with everyone, really good 2 hour catch up the elderly couple 75 years old are off at mid night from Perth going to Barcelona for 3 nights and then a cruise to Norway for 12 nights.  Hard life but hell we could get used to it they were just not leaving until 12am so booked their luggage through this morning, held onto the room key and could access the lounge for free drinks before they flew out.

We cannot get over the number of people with dogs and pushes to transport them, plus they carry them.  A woman stopped at the lights outside the Dorsett with a poodle, tired so she put him in the pusher, fed him a couple of treats, just weird!!

10th April, 2017

Up early coffee, then bakery and caught the courtesy bus to Kowloon then the train to Tung Chung for the cable car to Lantau Island the big Buddha.
No cable car closed for maintenance so for $60 we booked a five hour tour Sky-Land-Sea Lantau adventure from Ngong Ping 360! 12pm left. Luna was our tour guide so spoke in English and Mandarin.
We stopped in Tai O Fishing Village, walked down streets with all types of dried fish, food cooked while you waited. Went for a boat ride through the village and saw the bridge which is being built from Lantau to Macau $80,000,000. We then hoped off the boat and had a look around a steel stilt house, them walked back to the bus. Next stop was the Big Buddha, 268 steps to the top. We also had a look at the Po Lin. monastery which has 10,000 Buddha's. Amazing day at 3.30pm left to return to Ngong Ping 360.

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Photos

Stanley Foreshore
Time for lunch. really relaxing day after lunch walked through the market.

Camels in Stanley
Just for you Trev!

Street Market
Lots of dried fish, traditional because they do not have Freezers.

Calamari
Would have taken ages to eat one of these on a stick, after they fry them for you! Yum Yum

Boat ride through Tai O Fishing Village
Great to see and experience

Toilet in the Stilt House
I was not keen on using this

The Price of Fuel
Between $2.50 and $3.50 Au

Big Buddha
268 Steps and could only see his shadow due to fog

Po Lin Monastey
This had a huge room with ten thousand Buddhas, just incredible but I was not allowed to take photos unfortunately.