half day trip to Lantau Island

my first time to lantau island after numerous trips to HK. a half day including shopping and dim sum would be sufficient as there aint much to see or do there.

we started with dim sum at the convention center in HK at Central. It gets really crowded by nooon so we went earlier. its dim sum on push carts!

after lunch, we headed for Lantau Island. Cousin said in the past, you need to take a ferry in order to get there, nowadays, the train gets us there in half an hour! take the train from Central Station to Tung Chung Station . From there, you could either take (1) cable car (2) bus or (3) taxi to the famous buddha statue. We took the Ngong Ping Cable Car cuz its the most scenic & fastest (abt 20 minutes). Sea, hills, buildings, fishing village, airport, small waterfall & the Buddha from afar!

cable car stopped at ngong pin village - a man made attraction - boring.

and a short walk away, the famous Buddha statue - the biggest steel one in asia i think.

then we took abt 20 minutes bus ride to Tai O. According to mummy, this place's frequently featured on travel shows & drama serials. its a nice quaint place but nothing much to do other than snap a few pictures and buy dried seafood (if tat's what you like), else i dont think its really worth the trip there - we stayed only 10 minutes max.

and we ended the tour with shopping at the shopping outlet @ Tung Chung mtr station - outlet for stuffs like nike, addidas, body shop, crabtree&evelyn, polo ralph, bally, burberry, levis,A/X, samsonite, folie folie, kate spade. prices generally 30-50% off the last few seasons stuffs. i got a bag there - i have been eyeing it since last year already!

ok, that's all for this entry! :D