A day at the big Buddha

Ok so here are some pictures....more pictures of our trip to Hong Kong. The explanation of the whole excursion down below. I had a little trouble with Blogger so deal with the backwards stuff of this. The picture above is at the monastery place...they are burning incense. Huge incense...and the smell was overwhelming...it was pretty cool.

No this is not the huge Buddha this is a Bodhisattva...and they were surrounded by this metal fence so you wouldn't climb on them...there were also signs that said do not throw coins at them...which is a praise thing...and what were all the Chinese doing? Yup throwing coins! These statues were gigantic....not as huge as the Buddha but pretty big!

Doug and I witht he large huge Buddha in the background....can't see it can you? Well that's becasue of the fog...you could barely see the hand in front of your face that day...but we did get to eat real doritos....

Doug climbing the stairs to the huge Buddha...there were a lot of them but it was easy...funny how everyone says we are lazy Americans and the longest Doug and I stopped was to take this picture....

HERE IS THE REAL EXPLINATION OF WHERE WE WERE....REMEMBER HAD A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH BLOGGER SO DIDN'T FIX IT....LIFE GOES ON!

Ok so while Doug and I were in Hong Kong I wanted to take him to a few places I had gone when I was in 8th grade with my family. This was our first full day in Hong Kong and I thought going to the big Buddha would be fun. Now it wasn't warm out and you couldn't really see too much but Doug and I were up for anything. (Sometimes it is hard to do things in a different country when you don't speak the language. or know where you re going)

Ok so we got on the subway...as said before is wonderful....and we are on it for about half an hour or 45 mins and then we get on a bus to get to the temple and Buddha. The bus ride was like a being on a roller coaster for 30 mins. All a long the mountains, through the forest and all the FOG! We fell asleep for a little while otherwise you probably would have gotten car sick.

Anyway we finally make it to the big Buddha and the walk begins!