Lantau Enlightening Afternoon Tour

Detailed Itinerary: Our tour guide will pick you up at hotel lobby at around 12:50 and begin our 6 hours tour to explore Lantau Island. 

First we will take coach to Tung Chung to take Cable Car to Ngong Ping. The 5.7km cable car journey offers visitors spectacular 360 degree panoramic views of South China Sea, Hong Kong International Airport, Lantau North Country Park and the World's tallest outdoor bronze Buddha statue - Tian Tan Buddha.

Free time to walk around Tian Tan Buddha, and the Po Lin Monastery.

Take coach to Tai O, a quaint fishing village where the houses are on stilts, take a boat ride to explore the village.

Transfer back to your hotel by coach after the tour.

- HIGHLIGHTS -

NGONG PING CABLE CAR
Ngong Ping Cable Car connects Tung Chung and Ngong Ping. The 5.7km cable car journey offers visitors spectacular 360 degree panoramic views of South China Sea, Hong Kong International Airport, North Lantau Country Park and Giant Buddha.

CRYSTAL CABIN
The price shown on this page only includes standard cabin ticket for cable car ride. ou can pay extra USD10 to upgrade to crystal cabin on site.  Equipped with a glass bottom, the all new Ngong Ping 360 Crystal Cabin is designed to feast your eyes with an astonishing bird's eye view. Feel the magic of the boundless sea and the rolling grassland slopes right underneath your feet.

TIAN TAN BUDDHA
It is located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, a large bronze statue of a Buddha Amoghasiddhi, also known as big buddha, completed in 1993.

The Buddha is 34 metres (112 ft) tall, weighs 250 tons. You need to climb 268 steps to reach the Buddha, there is a small winding road to the Buddha for vehicles to accommodate the handicapped.

PO LIN MONASTERY
Know as the "Buddhist Kingdom in the South". Po Lin Monastery is the most popular Buddhist temple in HK. The world's largest outdoor Buddha at the Po Lin Monastery becomes a site of Pilgrimage and is visited by Buddhists' from all over the world.

NGONG PING VILLAGE
It is set on a 1.5 hectare site on Lantau Island, adjacent of Ngong Ping Cable Car Terminal and the Tian Tan Buddha Statue. This amazing cultural themed village has been architecturally designed and landscaped to reflect the cultural and spiritual integrity of the Ngong Ping area.

TAI O FISHING VILLAGE (with boat ride)
Tai O, was once the largest inhabited settlement on Lantau Island. The village's stilt houses on the waterfont, offer a glimpse into Hong Kong's past and provide a striking contrast with the modern city.

THE STILTS HOUSE
A free boat trip ride to cruise around the old fishing village is included. An highlight of the cruise is the stilts house, unusual, interconnected structures on water that form a tightly-knit fishing community for villagers to live in.

TAI O HERITAGE HOTEL
Follow the trail in village to go as ocean-front as you can get, you will see a beautiful pier and a colonial style buiding hidden on hill. Dating from 1902, this building was formerly the Tai O police station and one of the earliest police stations built in the New Territories.

The building was renovated and converted into the Tai O Heritage Hotel in 2012. The hotel includes nine colonial-style rooms and suites with sea views and a roof-top restaurant serving Tai O specialties. The surrounding cannons, searchlight and guard towers have all been restored.