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HONG KONG: Lantau
Island
January 30, 2006
| On Monday morning, we took a ferry to Lantau Island. It
is the largest of the islands, nearly twice the size of Hong Kong
Island, although its population is a mere 45,000. At Mui Wo, the
sleepy southern side of the island where our ferry arrived, we
wouldn’t have guessed the island was home to Hong Kong Disneyland and
one of the busiest international airports in the world. Our
destination on this island was Ngong Ping, home of the world’s largest
seated outdoor bronze Buddha statue. The Tian Tan Buddha is 100 feet
tall and towers serenely over the Po Lin monastery. We climbed the
260 steps up to the Buddha and confirmed that it was definitely big.
After circling the Buddha a few times and wandering around the
monastery, we took the metro back to Hong Kong Island. |
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The largest outdoor, seated, bronze Buddha in the world |
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