Our last day!   Starting at 5:30am (really nasty) and after quickly loading the car we drove to KLIA.  Helpfully, we didn’t have any details for where to leave the car, and even once we spoke to the agents we still didn’t really have a clue, so I dropped the luggage of with Li and went on a bit of an adventure by myself!

Flight to HK wasn’t too bad, although I really wouldn’t want to do any more than the 4 hours using AirAsia, there leg room is just really poor and you can’t get any sleep at all.  That being said we arrived safe and then had a good mince around the airport changing clothes, etc.  After dumping all our stuff with Left Luggage, we headed out on a cunning bus I found to the cable car station to head to the big budda.

We choose to upgrade to a glass bottom cable car on the trip up, but, didn’t realise just how bad the weather was up the mountain.   The wind on the way up was strong enough that I’m surprised they hadn’t stopped the cable car running completely (they would have done so in a ski resort) and then we entered a very large and quite boring big cloud, so had almost zero visibility.  In general though, the cable car was still quite good and Rebecca loved the glass floor; Li, not so much!

At the top we grabbed some very expensive, quite poor quality food, and had a quick wander around.  Then headed up to the big Buddha, which, given it was in a large cloud you couldn’t actually see until until about 15 feet away.   Li didn’t bother making the climb up the steps, but Rebecca and I did, and she was really good doing it as well.

A few photos at the top were taken, back down from the Buddha, but given the cloud and the wind it wasn’t very pleasant; however, Rebecca has a new “thumbs up” pose that seems to want to do everywhere and took full advantage of this at the top!

Back down the cable car; we took the same cunning bus back to the airport and, for I think the first time ever, had enough time to get a decent dinner.  So, a very nice Pizza Express was the order of the day, in fact, shockingly good, much better than the UK.

On to the plane, few bottles of red and I managed to get some of the good Upper Class whisky, and we’re on the way back.

Landed 30 mins early, meaning that there were no staff to get our buggy, but once collected, along with the rest of the luggage, we jumped in our waiting car and headed home.

Long grass, big pile of letters, the place looks a mess…but has a decent shower and looking forward to a nice bed & plenty of home cooked food now.