Last day in Hong Kong
Almost time to go back to work. We had a nice day today - we took the subway out to Lan Tau island near where the new airport is. There's a good cable car that goes from there up to the Po-Lin monastery. There's a giant 34 metre high bronze seated buddha there which is the main tourist attraction. It does look pretty cool sitting up on its hill.
Included in the admission price is a vegetarian meal over at the monastery after you've climbed up to the buddha and come back down. In the buddha there were two crystal relics of the Shakyamuni Buddha. His cremated remains were said to have left 84,000 tiny crystal relics. The Po-Lin monastery has two of them. You couldn't actually see them as they were about 15 feet behind a barrier and in some elaborate crystal urn thing.
The meal at the monastery was great - I'm not a fan of vegetarian food in the slightest as many of you will know, but the meal was first rate.
After the meal we were planning on doing a walk back down to the subway place. We had a guidebook thing we had picked up which suggested it was manageable, but we got half way up the Lantau peak before realising exactly how far up we had to walk before we started the descent. We decided to turn back and take the cable car back down...quite glad we did as it seemed like an awfully long way to have to walk...
Anyway - pictures!
Cockle pickers perhaps? Saw them on the sand bars from the cable car
Same - but in the water...
The butterflies were nice but totally unco-operative
Buddha on the hill through some foliage
At some point the sculptor must have got bored of putting the hands on...
The main hall of the Po-Lin monastery
Again, buddha through the trees
Buddha from the steps
View down from the buddha
Side view
Bit closer
View from the cable car station
Oh Starbucks...
View back down the cable car
Ditto
Included in the admission price is a vegetarian meal over at the monastery after you've climbed up to the buddha and come back down. In the buddha there were two crystal relics of the Shakyamuni Buddha. His cremated remains were said to have left 84,000 tiny crystal relics. The Po-Lin monastery has two of them. You couldn't actually see them as they were about 15 feet behind a barrier and in some elaborate crystal urn thing.
The meal at the monastery was great - I'm not a fan of vegetarian food in the slightest as many of you will know, but the meal was first rate.
After the meal we were planning on doing a walk back down to the subway place. We had a guidebook thing we had picked up which suggested it was manageable, but we got half way up the Lantau peak before realising exactly how far up we had to walk before we started the descent. We decided to turn back and take the cable car back down...quite glad we did as it seemed like an awfully long way to have to walk...
Anyway - pictures!
Cockle pickers perhaps? Saw them on the sand bars from the cable car
Same - but in the water...
The butterflies were nice but totally unco-operative
Buddha on the hill through some foliage
At some point the sculptor must have got bored of putting the hands on...
The main hall of the Po-Lin monastery
Again, buddha through the trees
Buddha from the steps
View down from the buddha
Side view
Bit closer
View from the cable car station
Oh Starbucks...
View back down the cable car
Ditto
posted by Ken at 11:56 am
1 Comments:
now that you're home, did you move your own buddha statue yet!?
looks like you had fun!
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