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Tai O Fishing Village

Tai O, one of the 'must see' attractions and remaining fishing villages in Hong Kong. Located at the northwestern part of Lantau Island, also known as the ”Venice of the East” was once the largest inhabited settlement on Lantau Island.

Tai O Museum

The Tai O museum which was established by Rural Committee. The museum in order to help tourists or visitors to know and understand more about the history of Tai O with a variety of exhibits from Tai O's past such as salt making tools, fishing tools and wedding ceremony of Tanka people

Lunch in Tai O seafood restaurant

Tai O have many restaurants with Tai O's traditional cuisine and freshness seafood are provided with live fish, crab, fried rice with salted fish and steam pork with shrimp paste. Freshness seafood is guaranteed as you can select from the restaurants. Whether you like steamed, fried or grilled seafood, try it cooked with Hong Kong-style!

Pink dolphin

An unforgettable experience with a luxury cruiser for the world’s pinkest dolphin watching activities. More and more people are coming to Hong Kong in order to see the dolphins, so the dolphins are contributing significantly to the general tourism industry.


Please refer to the below linkage for the details of dolphin waatching tour:
http://www.hkdolphinwatch.com/

Tai O wet market

Browsing in the stalls and shops around Tai O is always a lot of fun. There have a lots of stalls with dried seafood products such as shrimp pastes, fish maw and salted fishes. Many travelers like to purchase some fish paste and salted fish as a souvenir as well as Hong Kong resident. Also, you can taste the yummy Hong Kong style street-side snack such as mini bowl pudding, cha guo and Chinese herbal tea in the Tai O market.

Chinese stilt-house

Tai O's stilt-houses are huts built on stilts in a narrow river channel and one of the most distinctive characteristics of Tai O. The original form of stilt houses is a fishing boat. As fishermen are living on the boat, the boat parking along the bank gradually becomes a shelter. Now we can see that stilt houses are supported by bamboo and concrete pillars which have plunged into the sea bed. You can imagine that the original form of the oldest stilt houses, were lifted up by several columns of bamboo. What amazing it is!

Kwan Tai Temple

Kwan Tai Temple is the oldest temple in Lantau island. This temple honors Kwan Tai, the God of War and Righteousness and was built in the reign of Hong Zhi (1488 – 1505) during the Ming dynasty. In real life, Kwan Tai was a general renowned for his loyalty and is said to protect devotees from evil.