Sunday, November 8, 2009

SOoo, We've been walking for a while, it's beautiful and all, but are we going to eat soon?



A village on STILTS!!! The Venice of Asia!!! Tai O!! is a small fishing village on Lantau island about 15 min away by bus from the Big Buddha. This post comes about a month after the trip... we've been busy with school... so... sorry? But anyway, it was a great trip and we got to finally explore a village that seemed more or less untouched by a lot of the modernization around Hong Kong. I'll make this post short and let the pictures speak for themselves (I hope). I will just mention that while we were there we took a boat tour for $2.50US around the village and did a full circle around the area and out to the ocean. We also met on our way back an old man named Binky who gave us some kumquats he had picked and processed, and then proceeded to give us a 2 hour personal tour throughout the village even though we had just asked him where a good restaurant was. He was very nice, and spoke a lot about the history and future of the area and about his life in the village. He eventually led us to a small local restaurant where we ate some good food and relaxed after a lot of walking that day. We grabbed a late night bus and headed back home to head back to the reality of 10 hrs of school a day, away from this .



















2 comments:

  1. This place is cool. Making notes for my trip. Actually, if you've posted a place on your blog I won't need to go there because your blogs are great.

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  2. Seeing those delicious sea urchins, crabs or whatever in the baskets reminded me: you'll be happy to know Zips, Montgomery Inn and Skyline all got "Best of" here in Cincinnati. Haha.

    Do not join the Communist Party before I get to HK.

    Did you get Mom's package?

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