Hong Kong is the kind of city that’s difficult to adapt to at first — and then, once you leave, you crave for more. It easily became one of my favorite cities in the world.
The markets, the streets
The best activity you can do in Hong Kong is just getting lost in the city. There’s always something interesting to see and photograph.
Tai O
Tai O is a fishing village on the far side of Lantau where you can imagine what Hong Kong was before Hong Kong became what it is. Houses on stilts over the water. It takes a ferry and a bus to get there, and it feels like time has slowed by half.
The Big Buddha
Near Tai O, up a cable car from Tung Chung, sits the Tian Tan Buddha — thirty-four meters of bronze looking out over the mountains. Worth the trip alone for the ride up, where the clouds thin and the sea opens out below you.
What we ate
Dim sum in the morning, bamboo baskets stacking up on the table. Egg tarts that taste like home. Even the coffee was good.
