5th Nov - Arrived in Hong Kong

Lan Tau Island - Hong Kong

Arrived an hour late but all was good - took me 30mins to work out how to use the telephone to call home! then on with the plan, book in my big bag and jump on the Npong ping 360 a new cable car that goes to the largest sittiing outside bronze buda in the world.

I was a bit exhausted now just jumping off a 12 hr flight straight into it -but worth it!! The views were amazing and it goes so high, by the way don't do a single unless you have got the energy for a 3hr walk back, but the wisodm path is good. anyways arrived at the Npong ping town - very touristic with a starbucks! home from home!
so onwards I went to the monestry first which has a great vegetarian resturant, get a meal ticket go to the woman with the mic and get a number which she is calling out, which you can't understand, so you have to watch her pointing to the numbers, till she gets to yours - then you get a table and three dishes are brought out, spring rolls, mushrooms and chinese cabbidge and peppers and beancurd and soup and tea and a huge sausepan of rice, yum yum!! (met a girl who works in picadilly) now up to the buda which is free if you show your meal ticket (also in to the exhibition hall) by this time i was ok after the food - but it was 3am english time!

The Buda is amazing as you come over on the cable car it is the one thing you notice, walking up the steps and the sun shines behind - its massive and very detailed.

on from here to the wisdom path, don't expect to walk on tracks because its all concreated paths to the infinaty belt, half tree logs stuck in the ground - nice! Then I decided to take the walk back to Tung Chung - not a good idea! took forever all downhill so i ended up running most of the way and then got to the bottom and it was still a bus journey to the town - oh and my ocopus card didn't work because i found out later you needed to put bus credit on it!

got my bag from the Airport and back to the North Point Ibis, im rubbish at directions so it took a long time to get there, but eventually made it.

the room is amazing, not small, fantastic views of the harbour - which is good that i did the upgrade to harbour views for 27quid.

so it came to 8pm and i had a shower and fell asleep only to wake up at 11am the next day!