Big Buddha!

This are over at the Big Buddha in Lantau Peak. Jeff and I escaped from work and got in this crazy bus (see 1st photo) for a 35 minute ride up and down mountains. The road was only 1 lane so everytime a car came we had to pull over and let them through. This is the largest outdoor Buddha in the world, which took about 10 yrs to build. You can see monks all over the place in the surrounding temples and areas. Bad thing was when we got it turns out that the place closed at 5:30 and it was 5:28. The guard was nice enough to let us in so we had to sprint up the 1,000 steps in like 2 minutes, take a picture and run back down. (so excuse the sweaty faces...)