Highlights
- Take a Ngong Ping Cable Car ride
- Visit The Big Buddha, Po Lin Monastery, The Grand Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas and Wisdom Path
- Learn from Buddhist teachings, religious mediation, history and culture
- Flexible to enjoy an intimate Private or Shared Tour
Description
This two-hour excursion takes you to Ngong Ping’s Buddhist monastery and related attractions. Appreciate the architecture, and become enlightened by listening to Buddhist stories and learning more about yourself.
Start your tour at the Ngong Ping Cable Car at 13:00 and enjoy the vista of rolling greens, boundless blue sky and the vast ocean from the cable car cabin of Asia’s longest bi-cable ropeway. Kick off your journey to enlightenment with a bird’s eye view of the breathtaking panorama from all 360 degrees. Then, travel to the pedestal of the Big Buddha aboard a comfortable coach.
Visit the world renowned outdoor seated bronze Buddha statue at 13:50 and admire it's calmness. Measuring 30 square meters, the solemn face of the bronze Buddha statue was cast in a single piece. Visitors can appreciate the Buddha’s relic, the most sacred item of Buddhism, and worship the Buddha in the exhibition hall inside of the pedestal.
Go to Wisdom Path, an arrangement of 38 giant wood columns measuring 8-10 meters tall and 1 meter wide to showcase calligraphic works by a master of Chinese studies Professor Jao Tsung-I. These wood columns are arranged in a “∞” pattern and the words are from a famous Buddhist classic called the Heart Sutra. The Wisdom Path symbolizes the profoundness and wisdom of Buddhist teaching.
After this continue at the Grand Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas, a five storey complex covering an area of more than 6,000 square metres. It comprises of the Main Shrine Hall of Buddha, a scripture library, an abbot’s chamber, a mediation hall, a permanent altar, an exhibition hall for Buddhist artefacts and a multi-functional hall. It is an important educational base for traditional culture, and a complex that combines Buddhist teaching, religious mediation, history, culture and tourism.
Return to the Po Lin Monastery at 16:00 and enjoy refreshments and time to tour on your own. The excursion concludes with a return trip to Tung Chung on the cable car.
Includes
Round trip cable car
Skip the boarding queue
A special queue for ticket redemption
Coach transfer to the Buddha (group option only)
Professional Licensed Tour guide
MTR Day Pass (private option only)
Meal Voucher for dedicated restaurants (if add-on selected)
Snack voucher for selected shops (if add-on selected)
Motion 360 Ticket (if add-on selected)
Chocolate Museum Ticket (if add-on selected)
Cable Car Discovery Centre Ticket (if add-on selected)
Important Information
- Please select the add-on for additional services before check out
- Should the cable car service be cancelled due to inclement weather or other reasons, the guided tour will be cancelled
- Latecomers will not be entertained and no refund will be provided for latecomers
- All redemption vouchers have no cash value and cannot be redeemed for cash. The vouchers validity is as per date stamped
- Guests are to make their own judgment when deciding whether it is suitable for them to join in the activities of the package and the local operator shall be exempted from any liability
- Tour itinerary or transportation as described is subject to change without prior notice. In the event of adverse traffic conditions, the local operator reserves the right to alter the order of places visited
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund
