Catching Up- with the Big Buddha

Paul and I have dueling posts this weekend.  While his is more current, mine is still from early April when Jenn was here for her visit.  We took in one of Hong Kong's popular sites, the Big Buddha.  It's the largest big Buddha of some kind, there seem to be many varieties claiming to be the largest at something.  This one is located on Lantau Island to the west of us, the same island where Paul's cousin Lizzie and her family live, where the airport is, and where Disneyland resides, among other things.  To get to the Big Buddha you can take a scenic bus ride around the island, hike up to it, or take a cable car ride.  We chose the cable car this time.  Here's our view at the beginning of the airport.

Here you can see the path if you want to hike up or down.  Jenn rode up with us in the cable car and then hiked back down.  The ticket counter lady said it was a four hour hike down, but it turned out to be less than two for Jenn.  Maybe the ticket counter lady was saying it would be four hours for me, which is probably true.

Here is our view of the Big Buddha as we near the end of the cable car ride.



The obligatory family picture at the top, taken by kind tourists with all of our cameras, but it looks like we never looked at my camera.

Hello Kitty, not really, but I don't know the significance of the chubby waving cat, seen in various places around town, including on PE's dresser.  I should research that. 

After climbing 260 steps, we get to meet Big Buddha and see some pretty views of the island.

After our descent back down the 260 steps we continued our search for the famous Chinese egg waffle that was shown in several pictures in the tourist info, but eluded us until the very end.  Sweet reward.