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While there are over 260 outlying islands only a few are accessible to visitors by Outlying District ferries from the Outlying Ferry Piers near the Star Ferry in Central District. Cheung Chau and Lamma islands are popular tourist spots.
World's largest seated Buddha
Cheung Chau is the busiest and most populated of the outer islands. A fast ferry from Central, near the Star Ferry will take you there in half an hour. Cheung Chau’s fishing community attracts artist-types and those trying to avoid city life. Cheung Chau is a favorite place for tourists as well as locals. (No cars!)
Cheung Chau is home to the Bun Festival and is shaped like a dumbbell. It is like a Mediterranean island with seaside shops, seafood restaurants, bicycles for hire, holiday homes and a fine beach where you can rent wind surfing boards, swim or just get a suntan. It is the home of an Olympic Gold Medal women’s windsurfer, Lee Lai Shan.
* An Island Hopping Pass is available for HK$30.00 from First Ferry. It gives unlimited rides to any islands in Hong Kong for a day, with a FREE island guidebook included.
Lamma is a fishing village with great seafood restaurants and not very expensive. For tourists, it’s a great island for exploring, since it’s only about five square miles with lots of rural walking paths. Like many of Hong Kong’s outer islands, there are no cars or buses. Take bug spray!
Lamma is peaceful, except during weekends. Ferries go to the main village of Yung Shue Wan and to the smaller, So Kwu Wan. At Yung Shue Wan there is a temple dedicated to Tin Hau, goddess of the sea, the patroness of all fishing people.
Lantau is the largest island in the territory, but has a population of less than 35,000. Hong Kong Island, by contrast, is less than half Lantau’s size, but has a population well over a million.
Hong Kong’s airport is located here, just next to the breeding area for pink dolphins native to Hong Kong waters.
Although Lantau Island has many hiking trails, most people with only one day to spend head straight for Po Lin monastery at Ngong Ping, home of the world’s largest outdoor bronze Buddha. Perched 2,500 feet above sea level, Po Lin can be reached by a wild, 40-minute ride on # 2 bus (Monday-Saturday fare is HK$17.20, Sunday & Holiday is HK$27.00 ) from the ferry pier. You can walk back by following the path next to the bus stop.
To reach Silvermine Bay (Mui Wo) on Lantau you leave from the Outlying Islands Pier near the Star Ferry in Central. Cost is HK$13.00 for regular boat & HK$25.50 for speedboat on weekdays.
Or, you can take the MTR to Tung Chung (HK$25.5) and take No. 23 bus from Tung Chung Town Centre, (HK$17.20 weekdays, HK$27 weekends and holidays.)
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Opened in 2005, Disneyland is located on the tip of Lantau Island, near Penny’s Bay. Close to the airport, it is 20 minutes from the heart of Hong Kong by subway. You can take the Tung Chung line from Central and switch at Sunny Bay to a Mickey Mouse train to Disneyland.
Price: Adults HK$350, Seniors HK$170 and Children HK$250.
Hong Kong's Disneyland opened in September 2005
Ocean Park is a typical water world. Located between Aberdeen and Deepwater Bay, it is the place to see pandas in Hong Kong.
Tickets cost HK$250-adults, HK$125-children, including admission and travel to and from the Park. Bus #629 departs every 10 minutes from Admiralty Bus Terminus.
The Harbor is one of the busiest in the world. It is filled with freighters, cruise liners, ferries, barges, and fishing junks, water taxis, hydrofoils, sailing yachts and pleasure craft. Tiny sampans propelled by a two-cylinder diesel engine or one oar moved in a wrist-curl motion, serve the typhoon shelters. The colors of the harbor change from hour to hour. Due to the narrowing of the harbor by landfill, the water is choppy and difficult to navigate. It is currently the site of a large landfill which ends next to Fenwick Pier.
Hong Kong Victoria Harbour night view