The next day (Day 8), we decided to visit Ocean Park, as this is the famous recreation park in Hong Kong. It is located in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. Unfortunately, there is no MTR to reach this place, and you have to take a bus or cab.

The park, ranked 7th in ‘The World’s Most Popular Amusement Parks’ by Forbes in June 2006 [1], had 4.38 million visitors in the fiscal year 2005/2006.[2] Ocean Park also ranked 16th in the TEA/ERA Theme Park Attendance Report 2007 with approximately 4.9 million visitors, higher than Hong Kong Disneyland at 21st place with 4.1 million visitors.[3] It covers an area of 870,000 square metres.[4] The different parts of the park are connected by a gondola lift system (or cable car system), as well as the world’s second longest outdoor escalator.

The theme park currently has over 14 rides and other attractions such as aquariums.[4] Besides housing two roller coasters, Ocean Park also features a Giant panda exhibit, a jelly fish and shark aquarium, as well as a four-story aquarium displaying more than 2000 fish. The official mascot of Ocean Park is “Whiskers”—a waving sealion.

Besides being an amusement park, Ocean Park Hong Kong also operates observatories, well developed laboratories, an education department and a Whales And Dolphins Fund.

(Wikipedia)

It was quite crowded at the bus station but luckily we still managed to catch up the bus service. The ride took us about 25 minutes, departing from Central to the Main Entrance of Ocean Park.

Main Entrance~~

Hot Air Balloon (under maintenance !@#$%)

An An? Jia Jia? Le Le? Ying Ying? I forgot its name~~

In front of the Giant Panda exhibit~~

Cable car that connects the park together~~

California sea lions and different species of seals are displayed here ~~

HeadLands Rides (roller coaster, ferries wheel, abyss turbo drop, etc.)

Photo taken from the Flying Swing~~

HD ice-cream melted into Milo Ice…

tastes nice but just too small…

the Ocean Theatre (too crowded, barely found a seat for the show)

Hello, Crush (Finding Nemo) :D

P/S: Please kindly visit Skaine’s post for more photos :)

The park closed at 6pm and we headed to Aberdeen Harbor for Jumbo Kingdom. The place is well known of its floating restaurant, and free ferry rides are provided for the customers too. You can enjoy lovely and delicious seafood here but it was too pricey for us. :(

Jumbo Kingdom

After taking some photos, we took the bus out to Mong Kok. We actually lost our directions and it took us about one and half hour to reach Argyle Road, Mong Kok. Yeah, I called this as bus tour, a very cheap one, as we paid not more than HKD 20. :D

That’s all about Ocean Park, a great place to kill time when you have nothing else to do…Of course, you will still gain a lot of sweet memories and joys here…

Probably, watching those marine life (the jellyfish spectacular rox), panda bears and birds can improve our awareness, motivate us to protect our mother nature and also educate us. Save the environment for better tomorrow. :P

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