Day 7 - Big Buddha and Markets

View from Avenue of the Stars
Po Lin Buddha

Ngong Ping Village
I can't believe time is flying by so fast! I am already at the tail end of my Hong Kong trip! with the next stop being London then Amsterdam! - but Day 7, - I got up around 9am as most of the things in Hong Kong don't open till 10am. Was out the door at 10 and caught the MTR (subway) right out to Tung Chung - Lantau Island. Once I got there, I cued for the cable car about 20 minutes but once I was in the cabin, it was amazing! You come across the most amazing views, it's a 25 minute ride and It is just amazing! I have photo's but I will get them up tomorrow along with the ones I take today so I can break my Hong Kong album up into 2.

Once I finished the cable car ride I came into this lovely village where I had a early lunch - Ngong Ping Village. Once completing that took a quick stroll through the village and them heading to the big buddha statue (the Po Lin Buddha) - This buddha was MASSIVE! its at the top of a peak and you climb 268 steps to get to it, And the buddha itself is 34m tall!! It was bizzare seeing the amount of people that came up to the buddha just to pray, so I stood right in front of it, and it felt like people were praying to me! yuss!!

After a few photo's and wondering around the statue I went down to a monastery which was also another experience in itself. Seeing people praying everywhere and signs saying "No Meat". Once I did that I went back down to Ngong Ping Village and chilled down there - had a green tea and then was off on my merry self back down in the Cable Car.

Once I got down to the MTR in Tung Chung I headed to Mong Kok to check out the famous Ladies Markets, these markets reminded me of the ones in Thailand! It's a really good place to test your bargaining skills. I asked how much for one pair of new underwear, and she said $50 so I ended up walking away with 5 pairs for $100 (which is about $20 kiwi) YYUUSS!!

Finally I headed back to Shelley's as I was taking her out for dinner as a thank you for putting me up. She got home and we headed to TST (Tsim Sha Tsui) for dinner and to check out the light show which is displayed at 8pm-8.15pm. Went to a lovely little restaurant where the food was really satisfying! before we knew it it was 7.55pm and we had to rush our way to the waterfront. Unfortunately we missed the show, but we still got down to the waterfront which is called "Avenue of stars" where there are hand prints of Jackie Chan and other famous people. This was such a beautiful place! The view across the harbour was stunning! - it's probably one of my favorite places in Hong Kong I've been so far! Once again I'll get photo's up ASAP.

We took a nice walk along the harbour side, to get the Star Ferry back across to Wan Chai and strolled back home.

I'm off to Macau today to do the largest bungee in the world! so this will be exciting!

till tomorrow! will get photo's up ASAP.