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| Tai Chi
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| A panorama of Harcourt Court, where my free tai chi class was held, five
minutes before it started. And here I was worried about not
pre-registering.
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| Breakfast at Cafe de Coral
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| My breakfast at Cafe
de Coral, a popular fast food chain: lemon water, oatmeal, roll with
butter, and fried eggs. Notice the huge slab of butter in the roll.
Everything was pretty good.
| I had #3.
Incidentally, I think it's neat Cafe de Coral changes its menu every few
hours to reflect what food is appropriate for the time of day.
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| Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car
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| The Ngong Ping Cable Car that I took up a mountain on Lantau Island.
| Beginning the way up.
| The cable car went over a large expanse of water, Tung Chung Bay.
| Yat Tung, typical Hong Kong apartment buildings.
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| More of the same at Tung Chung.
| Higher up, looking back.
| Ibid, just with the camera horizontal. (I kept both pictures because I
couldn't decide which picture I liked better.)
Note the greenery
beneath us; we're above the park.
| Back toward Tung Chung and Yat Tung.
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| Having reached the crest of our first hill, looking up. Notice the path
climbing the mountain.
| A close-up of the path. Look at all the steps! I'm glad I'm in the cable
car.
| Hong Kong Airport is also on Lantau Island. I could see it in the
distance.
| The runway. If you look closely, I caught a plane taking off.
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| Above a valley, close to the terminus.
| In the distance, I could see the Big Buddha that I'd be visiting later in
the afternoon.
| An example of a mountain on Lantau Island. Most of the island's mountains
are two-thousand-something feet tall.
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| Ngong Ping Themed Village
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| The Ngong Ping themed village.
| More of the village and a nice bridge.
| The village's bodhi tree. (It's a type of banyan tree.)
| A close-up of its interesting vertical root structure.
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| A movie of a model of Lantau Island that I found in the nature centre.
The camera begins looking roughly north. (The airport, visible in this
model, is on the north side.) I'm somewhere high up in the middle, and
I'll be hiking down to the northwest corner.
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| Tian Tan Buddha (Big Buddha)
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| Tian Tan Buddha, a large outdoor seated buddha statue.
| Close-up. I like the flower petals buddha is sitting on.
| Statues of minor gods surrounded the buddha and making offerings to it.
| The other three statues making offerings to the buddha.
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| A panorama from the Big Buddha looking south. Especially with the
islands, it could easily be made into a impressionist painting.
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