Last weekend, since Tom hadn't yet arrived when I visited the Big Buddha, we took another trip out to Lantau Island to visit Ngong Ping. This time, in addition to the monastery and Buddha himself, we went on a short hike to the Wisdom Path, an art installation "containing verses from the centuries-old Heart Sutra; one of the world’s best-known prayers revered by Confucians, Buddhists and Taoists alike. These steles display the Chinese version of the prayer, based on the calligraphy of famous contemporary scholar Professor Jao Tsung-I, and are arranged in a ∞ pattern, which represents infinity." It was a short, 20 minute hike from the relative chaos of the Buddha, and really peaceful and beautiful
Sunday, we took a stroll back in time by visiting the Hong Kong History Museum down in Kowloon. I enjoyed it mostly because of all the pottery that was featured, most of which was thousands of years old. After that, we stumbled upon an art exhibit near a local MTR station, which featured hundreds of pandas in transformers-style suits of arms - The Iron Panda.
Sunday, we took a stroll back in time by visiting the Hong Kong History Museum down in Kowloon. I enjoyed it mostly because of all the pottery that was featured, most of which was thousands of years old. After that, we stumbled upon an art exhibit near a local MTR station, which featured hundreds of pandas in transformers-style suits of arms - The Iron Panda.