Lantau Island

We've spent the day looking at Lantau Island (the HK airport is on this island). The island is mainly mountains and forests, with a few small settlements. We stopped at a beach (very warm water) and a fishing villiage(Tai O), where we wandered through the stalls. These sell mainly fried fish products.

Then on to Po Lin monastery (means Precious Lotus), which boasts the largest outdoor seated Budda statue. Note the qualifications - apparently there are larger seated Buddas indoors and larger standing Buddas outdoors. Anyway, it was pretty big, though the pictures were somewhat spoiled by the fog/mist that was rolling around. We had a vegaterian lunch at the monastery, which was quite reasonable.

Then back to the comfort of the Cathay lounge to wait for our flight to Beijing. Getting tired and it's time to leave the lounge.