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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Kowloon, Hong Kong by TravelPod blogger Sahs titled “Lantau Island” Sahs’s travel blog entry: “Lantau, the largest of Hong Kong’s outlying islands, is a visually stunning place, but is largely impractical for a daytripper because of its size. the bus system is good, but runs fairly infrequently so if you want to explore much of the island your timing must be pretty much impeccable, and that is something for which I am not known – at all. It is far too big to walk around, which fortunately I thought to ask before trekking off (which is what I usually would have done), and it has little (from what I saw) to offer in terms of urban odditites to occupy a visitor who, say, misses the bus by five minutes and has to wait an hour for the next one! On the surface this description seems to do the island a dicourteousy, and the foolish may simply write it off their itinery. This would be a mistake. Lantau has some absolutlely breathtaking scenery that is simply not available on the other islands, either due to habitiation or size, and for this alone, it is worth waiting for the bus, but beyond that, the island also has a simple charm. Like Lamma, it is seemingly removed from the pace of Hong Kong proper, but it is engaging on its own terms and and has its own sites of interest. My day was centred around the Tian Tin Buddha at Po Lin monastery, the largest seated outdoor bronze buddha in the world. The bus ride there, apart from …
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