Big buddha

Backblipping our trip to Hong Kong

A trip out to another island to visit the Tian Tan Buddha - or 'the big Buddha' as everyone called it. Nice journey out, subway and then a 20 min gondola ride (the cable car kind) across the hills.

And when they say big they mean it, its massive, bronze and absolutely lovely. You walk up 200 steps to it, and there was also an impressive temple to visit.

We were also due to move the conference hotel to one we had booked ourselves, and were delighted to find the new place had a 360 degree view bar where - or course - we had a drink or two.