Ngong Ping 360

This guide to Ngong Ping 360 in Hong Kong opens on its September 2006 launch, with exactly 1,688 tickets sold at 88 Hong Kong dollars each for luck, after a trial run had already trapped five hundred volunteers midair for two hours. It follows the five-and-a-half-kilometre gondola line from Tung Chung up to the Buddha at Ngong Ping, tracing what happened less than a year into operation on an evening in June 2007. Look for the airport island on one side and, on a clear day, Macau on the other.