This week has been the outlaying island visiting week. After visiting Lamma island on Monday, we then went to Lantau island on Wednesday. This time it was not to go to the International Airport -which is on Lantau- but to go to visit the south western of the island and more specific the Fishing village of Tai O, which is the most western settlement in Hong Kong. To reach that you can either take a ferry from Central to the village of Mui Wo and then a bus along the south side of the island. We forgot our book at home and then we mistakenly took a boat to Discovery bay and thought we could get a bus from there to Mui Wo. Pustekuchen -like they say in Germany when you are heavily mistaken- we had to take a bus from Discovery bay to the new town of Tung Chung at the airport, and then from there with a bus over the mountains to the south side of the island and towards Tai O. The ride was amazing and ended on a small part time single track road up the mountain with the old bus struggling it's way up and around the sharp corners to go downhill again. Nearly an hour we spent in the bumping bus on our way over hills and through valleys before we finally got out on the pier of Tai O and from then we were like in another world.
Crossing the first bridge to enter the fishing village, reminded me about Amsterdam with it's bridges, but then every comparison ended and we found an entire settlement built mainly on stilts along narrow channels with pedestrian walkways between the small houses and huts. 
Everywhere you were followed by this very characteristic smell of dried sea creatures what is the main goods from the villages and therefore was offered from nearly every little shop or stall along the way.
You can even get the coat of a Shark if you feel like it! Here you'll have some more impressions of this rather big stilt village on the western coast of Lantau island. 
Also here you'll depend on the air condition in the heat of the summer, and I can't stop thinking about how the smell must be here in the summer not even to mention the Mosquito's.
After a nice seafood lunch in one of the restaurants we headed back to the bus and this time we got the right one and went along the south coast towards Mui Wo on the east coast and the ferry back to Central on Hong Kong island.Mui Wo - Silver Mine bay- turned out to be a very interesting place and worth a visit later on. It was very quit though very busy and had some nice restaurants and Bars, so we stayed some hours walking around the beach and ended up in the China Bear bar at the harbor waiting for the ferry.
And in fact we could have been sitting there for hours looking out at the bay and seeing the ferries come and go, heading to various destinations and trying to cope with the fact that Hong Kong just have so much to offer it's visitors in terms of different experiences and impressions, from here you can have everything you want, you just have to have the time to find and do it.Next episode on this blog: "Macau - wa ma super gau II"
Your Honkers team went to the the worlds biggest gambling resort to give you the latest news from there. And yes; the thing behind me is a Building. It is the Grand Lisboa Casino and Hotel. But more about that later.
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