Ogii wanted her skirt ironed, so good thing the hotel had a small laundry room.
I was thinking about watching the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul boxing match on Netflix, but our plan isn't available in this region. That's annoying.
It takes a bit over two hours to get to Ngong Ping. At least we only have to transfer once.
A map of the lines from inside the subway car. Some cars have these older physical maps, and others have newer digital ones.
The lit lights indicate where you're going.
The end of the line splits into the airport / expo, Tung Chung, and Disneyland.
Uh oh, subway service disruption.
It looks like only one train is problematic, and then the next one is in three minutes, so that's not too bad.
This train, the one with the problem, went by empty.
A few more people have built up waiting.
Once we get to Tung Chung Station, it's actually faster to take the cable car to the top of the mountain than the bus, which wraps all the way around the island, although it's also much more expensive.
There are multiple bus stops here.
And each stop has multiple buses.
So you don't want to get on the wrong one.
There are many ways to pay, which is nice.
A cow on the side of the road on the way up.
A bay with a beach.
At Ngong Ping.
A map of the area.
The path is lined by twelve generals.
One for each of the Zodiac signs.
They each have different weapons.
A central area, gate, and temple.
Tian Tan Buddha to the right.
Tourist shops to the left.
Time to start walking up the 268 stairs. We arrived by bus before the first cable car, so there were only a few people.
Almost there.
Ogii on her way.
The Buddha statue.
Us with it.
Statues along the sides.
Water lilies.
You can go inside the base of the statue.
There are many pictures and memorials inside, although you can't take pictures of most of them.
The cable car.
More lilies.
Walking to the temple.
Incense sticks.
An outer room.
In the center.
On the sides.
Inner courtyard of the Po Lin Monastery.
Bird sculpture.
Inside.
The ceiling.
To the left.
A dragon sculpture outside.
Someone put a coin in it's mouth.
Small trees.
Ghost money is burned as offerings to ancestors to provide for departed loved ones in the afterlife.
A side area.
Turtle and dog sculptures.
Some massive incense sticks.
A large gate.
With writing on each of the four pillars.
Google Translate is pretty good at figuring them out.
Although I don't know what story they're telling.
Or if they're separate sayings.
The central large word is "immortality."
Walking over to the Ngong Ping village.
A map of it.
Many little tourist shops.
A neon sign of the city below.
Some drums.
The cable car station.
More drums.
On each side.
Even though it was pretty foggy up here, it didn't seem quite as bad when you got lower, so we decided to take the cable car down.
Everyone was still coming up, not going back down, so we had it all to ourselves.
The Buddha statue in the distance.
There were water droplets on the windows which made it difficult to see out.
Although if we got our phones right onto the glass and moved around the drops, we could get decent pictures.
A waterfall below.
Along with some stairs. I wonder if those go all the way to the top, and if so, if anybody walks the entire way.
There are three different cars. A standard one, one with more glass, and one with a glass bottom. I didn't want to pay more for the glass bottom one, but we should have; we might never be back, and it wasn't that much more.
The halfway point. On a clear day, you can get out and look around, but today the cars didn't even stop here.
We can just barely make out some buildings now.
Now we're finally below the fog.
To the right.
Looking back up the mountain.
Now we finally saw these little windows at the top of the cars that you can open for airflow. But you can also take pictures through them so they water drops don't get in the way. We should have seen these earlier.
The outlet mall on the left and a huge apartment complex on the right.
Many people waiting to go up.