Pre-Honeymoon - Day 5: Day in Lantau (大嶼山) and Tai O (大澳)

Today one of our friend's acted as tour guide took us to Lantau and Tai O to sight see.

What I didn't realize until I heard the Chinese name of this place was apparently when I was small, this was a place we go to for vacation.  In the past, this place was not accessible by MTR, but now it is.

The first stop was the Tian Tan Big Buddha (天壇大佛) .  It was pretty cool seeing this in person.  The steps was not as scary as people make it.  The view at the top was pretty nice, and there is a relic inside the temple.

We also went to the Ten Thousand Buddha temple.  Lots of gold and lots of Budhas.  We weren't able to go inside though, but did snap a few pictures of the inside.

After spending a few hours here, we then headed into Tai O.  Our tour guide was actually a local here - so we were able to actually walk into a ship yard store, which was really cool.  For dinner, we went to a place she knew the owners of, and they served us some really amazing and fresh seafood.  It was a long walk (I think we walked for an hour) and after dinner, we had to rush to catch the last bus back out of Tai O.  The shrimp that we ate was like no other.  Spectacular - wished I took a picture of it.




Food Tally: 

Dim Sum in Lantau: (180 HKD)

Dinner in Tai O: - Huge Shrimp, 8 Treasure Duck, Vegetables (300 HKD)
Total Spent on Food for the Day: 180 + 300 = 480 HKD = ~$62 USD 
*Dinner was cheap because we got the VIP rate :)