Afternoon at Lantau

Been to Hong Kong Kowloon before and visited the usual tourist attractions like The Peak, Victoria Harbour, Tsim Sha Tsui, did my shopping at Mongkok and Ladies' Market, ate my authentic dim sum at Sham Shui Po --- totally loved the hustle and bustling when I was single... This time we decided to stay on Lantau Island, because we wanted something more relaxing, closer to nature. Glad that we did, and we were able to cover all these in our 3-day trip: 1. Airport The airport was just a 15-minute ride to our hotel. Loved the short ride and almost totally empty roads. 2. Transport Taxi concierge was EXCELLENT...Always managed to get our taxi to us in under 10 minutes. 3. Mountains - Ngong Ping The Ngong Ping 360 cable car station was also about 15 minutes ride away. It was cool to take the cable car ride that crosses several mountains and the sea. Saw many hikers too, would try the hike when we were more prepared next time! The Ngong Ping Village, Big Buddha and Po Lin Monastry wewre on these mountains. 5. Fishing Village - Tai O Just a small fishing village - but loved that we got to walk around to enjoy the relaxing vibes, pet some freely roaming cats and enjoy the delicious local street food. Boat ride around the stilted houses of the village and out to catch the dolphins frolicking in the water was quite a treat too. The seafood was cheap and exceptionally fresh. They sell lots of dried seafood too as food souvenirs. 6. Disneyland 7. Shopping - Citygate and... 11 Skies??? Citygate mall has lots of outlet stores, and plenty of food options. But what we were even more excited about was the 11 Skies mall - touted to be the largest - with about 800 stores and 1200 dining options - feels like it's gonna be three times larger than Citygate (which was, already a very large mall). It seemed cool that they've features like Kidzania, Arte Museum (like the Art Science Museum of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands), Timeless Flight Ride (kinda like Soaring in Tokyo Disneyland / i-Ride in Taipei). Found out that this mall is being developed by the same developer of K11 Musea... which is the newest cool mall in Tsim Sha Tsui along Victoria Harbour. So if we were to visit Hong Kong again, would love to stay at Lantau again, but definitely after the 11 Skies Mall is fully open, perhaps after 2025!