Tai O is a rural fishing village quite close to Hongkong. Although it is only a short bus ride away from the "The Big Buddha" on Lantau Island, close to the international airport, not too many people go there.
Tai O fishing village
People live in buildings on stilts above the tide. As people still don't own refrigerators, fish is sold either dried or alive and people go to their local market every day to shop for groceries. The local fish market sells specimens I had never seen before.
What are these?
preparations of the local shrimp sauce
Fishing
not only fish.
a striking likeness to Santa Claus
Tung Chung, at the end of the MTR Tung Chung Line, where the cable car station is located, that takes people to the Big Buddha.
Housing estates in Tung Chung
A cable car leads to the Big Buddha on Lantau Island close to Hongkong Airport.
Back in Hongkong
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