Happy May day to all. How many of you Morris Dancers greeted the dawn? Anybody dance round a maypole? Around here it was Labour Day. We had forgotten that when we set out for a major tourist attraction.
Apparently on a regular Tuesday morning we might have had the great big Buddha almost to ourselves, but it was full of holiday makers today. To get there we took 2 trains, two ferries and two buses. It is in the village of Ngong Ping on the island of Lantau (the one with Hong Kong airport on it). To get home we took a cablecar, 4 trains and a bus. Actually the journey, especially the ferries and the cablecar were some of the best parts of the day (not so much the subway trains and buses which we have taken everyday already but are getting to be old hands at now).
The statue, the world's largest outdoor Buddha, is at the top of a biggish hill (as are all good Buddhist sites it seems) with 260 steps leading up to it. It is a modern deal, built to open in 1993 and financed by some rich local Buddhists. It is impressive in it's magnitude. There is one of the nicest tourist trap village attached that I have ever been in. I usually hate them, but this one was exotic enough to win me over, I guess.
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