{"id":4884,"date":"2012-06-06T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2012\/06\/06\/hong-kong-day-3-ii-the-big-buddha\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:03:54","slug":"hong-kong-day-3-ii-the-big-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2012\/06\/06\/hong-kong-day-3-ii-the-big-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Day 3 (II) &#8211; The Big Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 11 March 2012 Sunday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10:50 AM \u00e4\u00b8\u0153\u00e6\u00b6\u0152 Tung Chung Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Took the MTR to Tung Chung. The Ngong Ping 360 cable car was temporarily closed for the period hence we had to take the bus to The Big Buddha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1773.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1775.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Walked a short distance to the bus terminal. Queuing up for bus 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>11:35 AM The Big Buddha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was raining when we alighted the bus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1778.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The weather became extremely cold. Both of them were trying to see their breath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1781.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mist everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1783.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1784.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1785.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1789.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1792.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Up we go!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1793.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1801.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Couldn&#8217;t really see The Big Buddha<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1802.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1803.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1804.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1806.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1808.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1809.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Having ice-cream in the cold&#8230; That&#8217;s Daniel in the background, with his white shawl over his head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1814.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1815.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1817.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1818.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1820.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>12:50PM Starbucks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1821.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mint Mocha + Blueberry Muffin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_6664.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1825.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Took bus 23 back to the Tung Chung Bus Terminal. Went to Citygate Outlets for some shopping. Bought cup noodles from the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>15:50 PM Watami Hong Kong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1827.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Late lunch at Watami.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1828.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1832.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1829.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1833.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1834.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1838.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2012\/Travel\/201203%20HongKong\/D03\/02\/IMG_1839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/travel\/\">View my entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 11 March 2012 Sunday 10:50 AM \u00e4\u00b8\u0153\u00e6\u00b6\u0152 Tung Chung Station Took the MTR to Tung Chung. The Ngong Ping&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}