Day 3 ~ DIY Hong Kong & Macau trip 2016 (Ten Thousand Buddhas & Sham Shui Po)

Hello everyone! you're still with me on day 3 huh? thank you and welcome for the new ones. :)

We started our day with some fruits, tea and chocolates for me hehe!

This day is super funny because something happened that we didn't really expect. I'll tell you later so keep on reading. We're going to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery located in Sha Tin, Hong Kong so from Yau Ma Tei station, ride the MTR going to Kowloon Tong and then transfer to the train that goes to Sha Tin and the monastery is just a 5 minutes walk from the station.

The pathway going up to the monastery. It looks kind of sketchy at first but just keep on walking

Entrance

Bring water because it's a lot of steps

Almost there...

We thought that these fellas are friendly and just wanting to have their picture taken...

...but they are not!

So here goes the story... Before going to the monastery, we bought breads at the station to eat while walking and I'm holding the plastic bag where the breads are. After we roam around, we took another path going down (seen on the 2 last pictures).

We see that there are monkeys on the trees and we thought that they are just friendly to go near us and have their pictures taken. Even the other tourist took a photo of them though I am very scared that I keep saying "ma wag na tayo dito" because one of the monkey keeps on following us but my mom insist that we should just continue because she thought that the monkeys are friendly.

After that we heard on the trees that there's a lot of monkeys around us already and you could hear their terrifying sound so we hurriedly continue to walk downstairs but they still keep on following us and I remember that maybe it's the food that they want so my mom says that I should just throw it and I did because i'm really scared that time haha!

They all went to the food after I throw it on the ground then after that they did not bother us anymore. Hahaha! so if you're planning on going to the monastery DO NOT BRING FOOD. After that terrifying encounter with the monkeys, we just ate at the restaurant nearby the station but I forgot the name and forgot to take photo of the foods because we're hungry and the monkey got our breads.

Sham Shui Po

Street Market in Sham Shui Po

This is larger than Temple and Ladies Market, I think?

If you are planning on buying stuffs on bulk orders, this is the place that you should check out. There's a lot of stores (I just forgot to take pictures of them) that are selling cheaper clothes, fabrics, you name it! but mostly in bulk orders.

Going there: From Yau Ma Tei station, take the Tsuen Wan Line going to Sham Shui Po Station and go to exit A2. If you are from ten thousand buddhas Just go back to Kowloon Tong Station and then change train on Prince Edward Station and ride the Tsuen Wan Line. It's just the next station after prince edward.