Hong Kong, Part Doh!

I was not stateside for Thanksgiving, spent the long holiday in Hong Kong finishing up a project started two weeks ago. But don't feel bad for me (which I know you don't ;-) ) I was luckly enough to get out and about on this short trip.

Spent a bit of time at this place... the hot tub on the 76th floor of the W hotel. Nice view of Hong Kong island and very nice on the sore muscles.

Work uses a local IT vendor for onsite support of a mutual customer, they took me out to dinner Friday night. We ended up driving just north of the city to Sai Kung.

Outside the restaurants are all these aquariums with the catch of the day; crab, cuttlefish, clams, some type of shrimp that looks more like a lobster, and some de-lic-ious scallops was on our menu.

Not sure if these were for dinner.

Best part of this trip was going for a hike to Lantau Peak; start on the right on the road and ended up at the buddah statue and monastery.

Lantau Peak is the highest point on Lantau Island, adjacent to the airport, top left corner of the picture.

This is a view of Lantau Peak, far left, from near the road I started on. I was told this was a tough hike but it showed me some spectacular views.

The Hong Kong area had hundred of miles of trails, well made and well maintained. Allong the way are covered picnic areas and benches trail side to take in the view.

At 3075 feet is the top were a temporary shelter was built years ago for any unfortunate soul; luckly it was a gorgous day for me.

It was so steep coming down the backside; some steps were up to knee high on me.

Near the end of this section of the trail was a dedication called 'The Wisdom Path'; large split logs that had inscriptions of a ancient text (not ancient itself).

The last part of my hike brought me to the Tian Tan Buddah statue and the Po Lin Monastary.

This is the best picture I got of the buddah... the lighting when I was up underneath it did not lead to many interesting shots except for this one.

As you can see this buddah is telling me to stop and then flipping me the bird. What?

The whole area around the monastary was called Ngong Ping and had a gondola from the top down to a station near the airport. The views were awesome and gave me a few monments to look back on the trip.

Back to the rat race!