17th February 2009

Today we visited Lantau Island going by ferry, the water was quite choppy and some people felt more than a little queasy. Having arrived on the Island we had to take a local bus to the Po Lin monastery at the top of a mountain with a 250 ton bronze statue of a seated Buddha and sat at the top of nearly 300 steps. However the bus journey to the mountain top was more scary than any roller coaster ride than you can imagine, with sheer drop one one side and a gradient of 1 in six- I will say no more. I will leave you to imagine, needless to say the bus driver only seemed to think his accelerator should be flat on the ground.
We came back to Kowloon via the MTR (tube), a much safer mode of travel and visited Nathan Road where we were accosted every step of the way by people trying to sell us 'Rolex' watches, etc. After a coffee and a rest we returned to the hotel to start packing again for the next stage of our trip – this time to Sydney.