Private The Tai O Fishing Village, Lantau Island Tour
Highlights
- Visit the Tai O Heritage Hotel and taste shrimp paste dishes
- Salt processing and shrimp paste processing
- Experience powerful “speedboats”
- Visit the nearby Big Buddha (Tian Tan Buddha)
- Ride the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car back to Tung Chung
Overview
A visit to Lantau Island makes for a splendid day out, including travel time roughly 7 or 8 hours. Prior to 1949 the Tai O Fishing Village was a sleepy backwater because of poor transport links to the rest of Hong Kong and commerce was fishing, salt processing and shrimp paste processing, in 1949 many people fled China and came to Hong Kong as refugees and Tai O was a popular place to settle. It has 2 parts to it, the modern town with houses, apartment blocks and normal buildings.
The waterways in Tai O are generally horrid, strewn with litter and all manner of waste, some of it organic as the stilt houses flush directly into the waterways, so what looks like a discarded Mars Bar probably isn’t! but do not let that deter you, keep your hands away from the water, schools of odd looking fish will deal with the “Mars Bar” and tell yourself that the Tai O Fishing Village is quite fascinating which it is!