Hong Kong get-away
I have been to Hong Kong twice for a church conference, but wasn’t able to do a ton of sight-seeing. And since Matt had not been to Hong Kong yet, we decided to take a little “Baby-moon” to Hong Kong before I got too far along in my pregnancy and the airlines wouldn’t let me fly. We took advantage of the May 1st Labor Day holiday and spent a long weekend with just the two of us while Kalani and Mason stayed in the Philippines with Helen and Marilyn (our house help). As always, we booked a tour guide through Viator and found Frank Law. We felt like he showed us all of Hong Kong and gave us good information on the things and places that we were visiting. He was fun, enthusiastic, and tailored the tour to meet the needs of a very pregnant lady.
Day 1
This is our room at the Intercontinental Hotel, which had this spectacular view of Victoria Harbor
We took a tram up to Victoria Peak
BIG groups of Filipinos were gathered at parks playing games since they all had the day off
On our tour of Hong Kong Island we stopped at a local market
Over 1,000 people live in this apartment building. There are many of these apartment buildings all over Hong Kong
A nice quiet area on Hong Kong Island
Heading back to our hotel, we passed this “ship” that is really a department store inside
Day 2
We took the metro to head to Lantau Island. We were headed to the Big Buddha, but these girls were going to Hong Kong Disney
Heading up to the Big Buddha by cable car
Our tour guide arranged for us to have a glass bottom cable car going up to Big Buddha
From the cable car we could see construction of a bridge that will give another access to mainland China
Off the cable car and we see Buddha in the distance and western types of shops for the tourists
Buddha (34 meters high) is blessing us as we climbed the 268 steps to reach the statue
Across from the Big Buddha is the Po Lin Monastery. Here are statues of Buddha as Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
We hit up the “Ladies Market” to buy some cheap gifts for the kids
We also went to the Night Market to have a look, but they basically have the same things as the Ladies Market
Day 3
Our last day we started out visiting the beautiful Nan Lian Garden which is right in the middle of the city
Chi Lin Nunnery was just across the bridge of the Nan Lian Garden
Guardians of Buddha
People get fortune sticks at the temple and then go to these fortune tellers to find out their future. There are at least 2 dozen of these fortune tellers on site
It was wonerful to spend time together as a couple and we really enjoyed our tour guide and driver
We actually saw and did more than I showed in this post, but the rest of our photos can be found here.
