Bus #1 from Mui Wo, #11 from Tung Chung, or #21 from Po Lin Monastery.

The largest and oldest village on Lantau, Tai O is home to two thousand people. There’s plenty of interest in its old lanes, including shrines, temples, and a quarter full of tin-roofed stilt-houses built over the water.

From the bus stop, you cross a small bridge onto the main street, which is lined by people selling dried and live seafood, and there’s also a tiny museum (daily 9am-5pm, free), displaying everyday artefacts such as washboards, the prows from a Dragon Boat, a threshing machine and a cutlass. At the bridge, operators offer short boat trips around the nearby inlets, to see the village from the water ($10-25 depending on where you want to go).

The pick of the village’s temples is Hau Wong Miu (free) on Kat Hing Back Street, about two minutes’ walk from the bridge. Built in 1699, it contains the local boat used in the annual Dragon Boat Races, some shark bones, a whale head found by Tai O fishermen, and a lovely carved roof-frieze displaying two roaring dragons.