Ngong Ping 360
Bi-cable gondola ride spanning five kilometres over sea and ridgelines to a mountaintop plateau.
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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.
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