As promised, I went to Lantau Island (part of Hong Kong) today via Skyrail. This is a four mile stretch of cable cars going from the Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal, near the new airport to Ngong Ping Village. From the village it is about a 15 minute walk to the Po Lin Monastery and the Tian Tan Buddha Statue perched way up on the top of a hill (255 steps worth). There were only two issues with the tour…. First of all the government decided that today would be a great day to offer a free cable car ride to the Monastery & statue of Buddha for all senior citizens. I think they all came. When we arrive at the station it was crammed with people waiting to go on the Skyrail. We obviously had to wait quite a while before we boarded. The other issue which was much worse was the foggy conditions…. I signed up for the cable car ride and the return trip to the Tian Tan Buddha statue with photography on my mind. It is difficult, I find, to shoot photos through hazy, foggy weather conditions…. Oh well! I made the best of it…. Even had a garlic chicken wing snack while I was there which was a major highlight…. After returning to the ship to drop things off I went back out to explore the streets of Kowloon. This place is so colorful and vibrant at night…. Just amazing. I went back to the ship to see the laser show that is performed each night at 8:00 and to get a few night shots of Hong Kong…. lovely
3 comments:
The laser show pics are GREAT! Did you have to use any special setting to get them?
Just awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Great pics even through the fog!
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