Lantau Island I guess I'm not really a city guy because after only 2 days in the big town, I found myself looking for some countryside/nature. A great thing to do in that case is visit one of the outlying islands of Hong Kong. I chose for 'Lantau', the biggest one. I went over to the giant Buddha, they have there. It's the largest 'outdoors, seated, bronze' Buddha in the world, 34 m or so. Driving to the place, it is quite impressive to see the statue from down in the valley. It looks like a new man made hill top. The ticket to the Buddha and the Po Lin monastery included free veggie lunch at the monastery... yummie, a real feast for this guy. After all the spiritual and gastronomic stuff it was time
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