James & Heather Travelogues

Unbeknownst to a large number of people, Hong Kong actually consists of a number of islands of varying sizes, most of which are connected with bridges spanning the harbour. One of these is Lantau island, which contains a 3km beach and is actually the island that the new airport is based on (in reality, the local authorities built an artificial island attached to Lantau). It also contains (I believe) the largest bronze buddha in South East Asia.

On the day that we decided to go to Lantau (via ferry) the fog had become worse. When we hiked up the side of the hill, all we could see of the buddha was a ghostly white smear. Any photos we took came out looking as if it was a picture of a polar bear sneaking up on an albino penguin in the middle of the Antartic.

As such, Lantau was a bit of a bust...