HONG KONG DAY2- LANTAU

Just ended a very long day 2. Today we have visited LANTAU, one of the islands in the HK archipielago with its Tian Tan Buddha (the biggest seating buddha), Po Lin Monastery and fabulous beaches. You can see pics here.

In the afternoon we went to Kwo Loon. There we visited the Yau Ma Tei or Jade Market and the Tin Hau Temple dedicated to the goddess of seafarers and the district of Mong Kok (Prosperous Point) in Prince Edward MTR, a very congested working class residential area and one of the busiest shopping districts where we could enjoy Yuen Po street Bird garden (the Chinese have long favoured songbirds as pets), the Flower Market (streets full of wonderful flowershops) , Tung Choi St market (the place to get any fish you'd like to for your aquarium) and the Ladies' Market, the place to get a hand in fake stuff. We were too tired for that so we headed back to HK to have dinner in a lovely Thai restaurant as the options were too occidental (Spanish, British, Moroccan, Lebanese...)