Sha Tin KCR. Follow signs for 800m. Daily 10am-5pm. Free. The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is an appealingly shabby temple dating from the 1960s, set at the peak of Po Fook Hill.

About four hundred steep steps ascend to the monastery from behind the Grand Central Plaza Shopping Centre, lined by five hundred life-sized, gilded statues of Buddhist saints. You emerge onto a terrace beside the main temple, which has an undistinguished exterior but houses around thirteen thousand small black-and-gold Buddha statues, each about a foot high and sculpted in a different posture, lining the walls to a height of thirty feet or more. The building also contains the embalmed and gilded body of a monk, the founder of the monastery.

Outside on the terrace there’s a small pagoda, along with some shoddy, brightly painted concrete statues of Chinese deities, including a lion and elephant (representing the Buddhist gods of Wisdom and Benevolence). Vegetarian lunches are also available, either off the menu or from a better value canteen selection.