Visit Lantau Island

You have to go onto this island.

This is where the airport is: to get there, use the Westrail from Siu Hong - 5 minutes away from the Uni - to Lai King and there change to another railway to Tun Chung. There take a bus and pay about 3 euros for unlimited transport in the day so you can just explore the island!

The Big Buddha is one of the most distinctive landmarks on Hong Kong's largest island, Lantau. The Tian Tan Buddha (or "Giant Buddha") is an 85-foot-high bronze and 220 tonnes Buddha statue, and there are various monastery buildings. Of course, a vegetarian restaurant can be found. Walkers can ascend from Tung Chung to the monastery in two hours.

The best known of the monasteries is Po Lin, which is on a high plateau - Ngong Ping - ringed by hills. Grand and gaudy today, Po Lin stands where three monks set up a meditation retreat in 1905. They built stone huts, other recluses joined them, and the monastery was officially inaugurated in 1927. The building was simple, and was surely peaceful as there was no road, just the Pilgrim's Path from the fishing village of Tai O to the west. It is called Hong Kong's Venice.