I Heart Travels

Ngong Ping Village Hong Kong The Ngong Ping Village is at the foot of the Tian Tan Buddha which sits on a 1.5 hectare portion of land on Lantau. It offers a lot of of interesting attractions like the Ngong Ping Tea House, Walking with Buddha, Monkeys Tale Theater, plus other establishments including restaurants, a spa, and a Starbucks outlet. We arrived around 2 in the afternoon via Ngong Ping Cable Car. We were lucky in having a great weather, less crowd and shorter queues. The walk up to Big Buddha is approx 10-15 min.  I really enjoyed browsing around the shops and restaurants in the area. Even though the village is a tourist development it is still a thoroughly enjoyable place to wander. The Big Buddha was inspiring, The steps up are a challenge for those not as young or as fit as they used to be. I also learned the ethos about patience and calm, walking around the village reminded me a quote from Buddha "The greatest prayer is patience". How to go to Ngong Ping

Wisdom Path Ngong Ping Village After wandering around Ngong Ping Village, we followed a clear signage that leads to "The Wisdom Path which is on the right side of Tian Tan Buddha. A scenic 15-20 minutes’ walk pass a tea house, Po Lin Monastery and Tea plantation brought us into the trail revealing the Wisdom Path at the foot of Lantau Mountain. Wisdom Path traces a series of 38 wooden steles (upright monuments) containing verses from the centuries-old Heart Sutra; one of the world’s best-known prayers revered by Confucians, Buddhists and Taoists alike.  These stales display the Chinese version of the prayer, based on the calligraphy of famous contemporary scholar Professor Jao Tsung-I, and are arranged in a pattern, which represents infinity. I may not understand the Chinese words or the Heart Sutra but I really enjoyed walking the trail because it is an amazing place where the tranquility of the natural environment matches the calligraphy inscribed on the thirty-eight pie