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Ngong Ping 360 – LanTau Island

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On the recommendation of my Hong Kong office colleague, Sam, I took the MTR to Tung Chung [东涌] to visit Ngong Ping 360 [昂坪 360] – a cable car ride that will give us sort of a bird’s eye view of much of Lantan Island [大屿山] on the way up to the largest outdoor Bronze Buddha Statue in the world.

I’ll not waste my time writing too much about the trip, and will let the pictures do the talking. Let me just say I am so unfit that being stubborn and trying to walk all the way up 268 steps to the Buddha Statue without stopping almost killed me and I ‘fainted’ at the foot of the Buddha Statue when I made it up there.

By the time I got back I met Lyna, who is currently on Business trip to our Hong Kong office for a month, for dinner and some drinks at Lan Kwai Fong [兰桂坊]. I am sorry I didn’t take too much pictures of the place as I was having quite a bad headache then.

But being the ‘jiu gui’ [酒鬼 – Alcoholic], I felt a lot better after a few drinks.

Hong Kong 08.08.08

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Arrived at Hong Kong International Airport at around 2:10pm today. The walk from the terminal back to the arrival hall is quite long – in fact I even had to take a short train ride to get there.

This is my first time to Hong Kong and I messed up when I make my way to the hotel in the Kowloon area. I should have listened to chillycraps by taking the MTR to Tsingyi [青衣] but I ‘geh kiang’ [假厉害 – act smart] took the train to Kowloon [九龙] instead. End up I have to take a roundabout route back to Lai King [荔景] so I can make my way to the MTR station nearest to my hotel – Prince Edward [太子].

I have to say Hong Kong’s MTR appears more efficient and convenient than Singapore’s, but that’s maybe because Hong Kong has a subway system longer than we do. The trains are quite new and clean too and they definitely come more often during peak hours.

Since it’s a free and easy trip, I basically just wandered around town with the camera to take pictures and did not really go to the tourist attractions. But definitely I’ll look into visiting some of the tourist attractions in the next few days.

Here are some of the pictures I have taken after having dinner with my Sam, my colleague in the HK office. I wandered for about 3 hours around both Causeway Bay [铜锣湾] and a small part of Mongkok [旺角]… and surprisingly, even though I was wondering aimlessly after getting off the Mongkok MTR station, I end up wandering right back to my hotel when I thought I was lost. I must say I did make an effort not to make 4 right turns and headed off in a particular direction. So I guess my sense of direction isn’t so bad after all, and having the road names in Chinese is great help.

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