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The Big Buddha at Ngong Ping

The 34 m bronze Tian Tan Buddha on its three-tier altar, Po Lin Monastery below, and new terrain carrying Lantau on to the west.

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A seated bronze Buddha on a lotus throne atop a white three-tier round altar on a green hilltop, with a long flight of steps leading down.
The Big Buddha facing north from Mok Yu Shan, Lantau.

The Tian Tan Buddha now sits on its hill at Ngong Ping on Lantau Island. Finished in 1993, the 34 m bronze Buddha was five years old in 1998, and it is now a landmark you can fly out to in free flight.

A seated bronze Buddha on a lotus throne atop a white three-tier round altar on a green hilltop, with a long flight of steps leading down.
The Big Buddha facing north from Mok Yu Shan, right hand raised.

The statue and the altar

  • The Buddha: seated on a lotus throne, about 34 m tall, in dark bronze. The right hand is raised and the left rests on the lap, and the statue faces north.
  • The altar: three round tiers modelled on the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, each with a white balustrade.
  • The six devas: small bronze figures kneeling round the altar with their offerings.
  • The steps: a straight flight down the north face of the hill to the plateau.
  • Po Lin Monastery: red-walled halls under yellow tiled roofs on the plateau below.

The Buddha is floodlit at night, so it glows on the dark hills of Lantau.

The Big Buddha floodlit in warm light at night on a dark hilltop.
Floodlit after dark.

More of Lantau

The sim's terrain used to stop just west of Lantau Peak. A new patch of terrain and aerial imagery now carries the island on to the west, so Ngong Ping, Lantau Peak and the hills to Tai O are all there. It meets the old terrain without a step, and the edges fade into the sea.

Aerial view along the mountains of Lantau Island, with Lantau Peak in the middle and the sea on both sides.
Lantau from the east, with Lantau Peak and Ngong Ping beyond.
The Ngong Ping plateau seen from a hillside, with the Buddha on its hill and the yellow roofs of the monastery below.
Ngong Ping: the Buddha on its hill and Po Lin Monastery on the plateau.

To visit, take off in free flight and head west-south-west, about 30 km from Kai Tak. The top of the statue is about 500 m above the sea, so keep well above it: it is a solid obstacle like any other.

天壇大佛而家坐喺大嶼山昂坪嘅山頂上。呢尊 34 米高嘅銅佛喺 1993 年落成，到 1998 年啱啱五歲，而家你可以喺自由飛行入面飛過去睇。

一尊銅佛坐喺蓮花座上，下面係白色三層圓形祭壇，喺綠色山頂上，前面有一條長長嘅樓梯落山。
大佛喺木魚山上面向北方，右手舉起。

佛像同祭壇

  • 大佛：坐喺蓮花座上，大約 34 米高，深色青銅。右手舉起，左手放喺膝上，面向北方。
  • 祭壇：三層圓台，仿照北京天壇，每層都有白色欄杆。
  • 六尊天人：細細尊嘅銅像，跪喺祭壇周圍奉上供品。
  • 樓梯：一條直路由山嘅北面落返平台。
  • 寶蓮寺：平台下面紅牆黃瓦嘅殿堂。

大佛夜晚有射燈照住，喺大嶼山黑沉沉嘅山上發光。

大佛夜晚喺漆黑嘅山頂上被暖色射燈照亮。
天黑之後亮起射燈。

更多大嶼山

模擬器嘅地形以前去到鳳凰山西邊就冇咗。而家加咗一塊新嘅地形同航拍圖，將成個島向西延伸，昂坪、鳳凰山同去大澳嘅山都有晒。佢同舊地形接得冇級，邊位慢慢沉落海。

沿住大嶼山山脈嘅航拍景，鳳凰山喺中間，兩邊都係海。
由東面望大嶼山，遠處係鳳凰山同昂坪。
由山坡望昂坪平台，大佛喺山頂，下面係寺院嘅黃色屋頂。
昂坪：山頂嘅大佛同平台上嘅寶蓮寺。

想去睇，就喺自由飛行起飛，向西南偏西飛，距離啟德大約 30 公里。佛像頂離海面大約 500 米，記住飛高啲：佢同其他嘢一樣係實心障礙物。

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