Our third day in Hongkong

On our third day in Hongkong, we started our journey early in the morning and headed to Lantau Island to see big Bronze statue Buddha which is known as the tallest outdoor. The weather was quite bad at that time. The rain was pouring down heavily. We decided to take a bus to get to the big Buddha. After getting on the bus and waiting fro several minutes, finally our bus took us through a long winding journey. It took us about 45 minutes to get there. On the way there, we passed a quite nice beach.

When we arrived there, we were welcomed by a few stores selling some souvenirs about Buddha, etc. We paid 60 HK to enter the museum of the big Buddha and had vegetarian lunch in the temple. There were 268 steps to climb in order to reach the Buddha. It was cloudy and it made our sight could not see clearly the Big Buddha sometimes. There was a moment in which a very thick for covered the image of Buddha and made the stairs looked like a long-white stairway to “Nirwana”.
Spending time on the top of the statue was great and cold as well since the wind was blowing so hard. However, although the weather was not really convenient for sightseeing, the place was packed with tourists. It might happen because that day was also a “Waisak” day. At first we thought the place would be closed because of that special day but it wasn’t.