A Day With Eli

Eli posing with the Big Buddha.

Hello Most Great Ones,

It has been well over a week since Eli and Elsie departed from amazing Hong Kong, but we did so many things I could spend the next month just blogging that.  I am not going to do that, but I do want to  blog a great day I had with Eli.  Elsie needed some well deserved time out from us so Eli and I got on the rails and headed to Lantau to visit the Big Buddha.   After arriving in the town of Tung Chung on Lantau we took a wheezing, coughing bus up to Big Buddha, which rests high on a small mountain.  After checking the big guy out Eli and I decided to march 7 kilometers down the mountain on a well paved path.  This may not sound like much to a certain well hiked, retired Mobil couple, but the trail was pretty steep.  The views were quite spectacular and the bamboo jungles were amazing.  Half way down the mountain we came across a Buddhist monastery with monks dressed in traditional garb tilling their well manicured garden plots.  It was like going back in time.  There were also other Buddhist shrines, and gravesites along this path.  Finally we came upon a rushing creek with lovely clear pools.  It was a delightful trek and as I have said over and over again, Hong Kong never ceases to amaze me.

God bless you all.

Love adios and peng on!

Dirk 

Son and dad.

Eli posing in front of the eternal pillars.

In a bamboo forest.

Asian pose in front of the trail head sign.

In front of the Buddhist monastery.

At a shrine.  

Interesting steps.

In the mighty jungle.

Clear waters.

 Great views.

 Mountain vistas.