Hong Kong: Day 2!

Hong Kong Day 2!

Today we went to see the Giant Buddha at Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island. It was pretty frikkin big! It's a huge tourist attraction and in good capitalist fashion, was surrounded by a colorful theme park complete with cartoon primate mascots and lot's and lot's of bubble machines! It was pretty wild.

Cute mascots and bubble machines!

Once again, we scored on good food. Since we were at a Buddhist monastery, there were plentiful vegetarian options. Dax had sweet and sour veggie chicken, and I had veggie dim sum! I meant to take a picture before we started eating... but my appetite got the better of me, so this is all that was left!

Taro egg rolls, sweet and sour veggie chicken, egg buns and soy sauce.

The Giant Buddha is on Lantau Island, which is about a 45 minute train ride from Kowloon. Once you get to the Island, there's a glass bottom "cable car" that takes you to the Buddha theme park. The "cable car" is actually what we americans would call a gondola, or a tram - one of the tallest we'd ever been on. The glass bottom was a trip. We made a couple of water crossings and travelled over beautiful green forests on our way to the Buddha. We were also able to take aerial photos of the Buddha on our way in. Very exciting. :)

Dax's and my feet resting on the cable car's glass bottom. See the shoreline below. 

Giant Buddha aerial view taken from the cable car.

In the evening, back in Kowloon, we experienced our first Chinese massages. It was about 30 USD to get an hour massaged by an amazingly skilled massage therapist. She did pressure point therapy and hit all the right spots. Whew! What a treat.

More veggie pizza for dinner, but hey, it's really good and super cheap and right next to our hotel, so we were very stoked to have it after a long and adventurous day!