Cable Car

Today we had the day off, so we were able to relax or go and do whatever we wanted, which was exciting. Some of the group went to Macau, an island similar to Las Vegas, others went to Disneyland in Hong Kong, and me and some others went to a different island, where the largest Buddha is located, on top of a mountain. We got to take a cable car then went really high up in the hair to the top of the mountain.

So we took the train down to the edge of the mainland, and then hopped onto the cable car/gondola, took the cable car to the island. It was a 10-20 minute ride going up.....very high up. The visibility was also very low, and once we got up into the clouds, we could see about 5 feet around us, then just white. It was both crazy cool and somewhat scary. :) At the top, we walked around and saw the temple there and also checked out the Buddha, which was huge.

However, we couldn't see much more than the outline of it cause of the fog. After walking around for a long time, shopping, checking out the sights....drinking a cup of starbucks, and visiting about 6 bakeries with Dave (a cool guy from Brazil who I'll be rooming with in Xiamen), we then headed back to (Shah on Mun) to the wet market for dinner. At night we played some basketball, which was a lot of fun under the lights at the YMCA. By 10pm, we were ready for bed. Tomorrow we get to check out a Church in HK. Uploaded pictures to older posts as well as this one....enjoy!

so be it,

Samuel Mahtani