Thursday, July 3, 2008

Last day in Hong Kong and heading to Macau

Lucky for us, the weather cleared up on our last morning in Hong Kong so we decided to make the most of it and head to Lantau Island to see the big buddha. To get to the big buddha, we had to catch the cable car, a 25 minute ride reaching almost 1km off the ground. Although being that high was a little scary, there were some fantastic views of the mountains and landscapes surrounding the buddha. Once we were off the cable car, we made our way to the buddha by climbing up a large flight of steps...it took us about 10 mins to walk up them all.
After we were satisfied we had taken enough photos, we headed back down the stairs and looked around the monasteries in the area.






We took the cable car back to the mainland and headed back to the motel to grab our bags and to make our way to the ferry terminal to Macau.
Let me just say that trying to find the ferry terminal was not as easy as we thought it would be. Both our suitcases were about 20kg and we had to drag them through the largest and busiest shopping centre in Hong Kong. But after much whining and swearing, we eventually found it and the next part of our adventure begun...MACAU!!!

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