The Beginning

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 !@#$%)

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Popularity: 12% [?]

After having our lovely breakfast, we planned to visit Lantau Island, which was about an hour of MTR ride from Mong Kok station. Yes, we can enjoy the panoramic view on Ngong Ping cable car, and also the Tian Tan Buddha located at the center of the island.

When we reached there, we saw the notice board below:

Photo taken by Shin Keat~~

Ngong Ping 360 is not the only way to get there, so we tried to look for alternatives… Unfortunately, we were being told that the transportations were cut down due to the heavy downpours few days ago. So, the only way would be getting a helicopter :)

We had to change our plan and visit to Wong Tai Shin Temple located at Kowloon District. Of course, we wasted few hours on travel and finally we reached the temple around 1pm.

The Main Entrance of Wong Tai Shin temple

the Small Little Lotus fountain…

the man-made pond at Wong Tai Shi temple…

After spending a couple of hours here, we moved to another place, Kowloon Walled City (九龍城寨). It was a tiny Chinese enclave in the middle of British Hong Kong for decades, and it was torn down in the year of 1993. In August 1995, the park is known as the Kowloon Walled City Park (九龍寨城公園), preserving the heritage of the fabled Walled City and is part of the adjacent Carpenter Road Park.
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Popularity: 9% [?]

After raining heavily for the past two days, it was a cloudy day on 8th June 2008. It was a lovely Sunday too. We decided to visit Tsim Sha Tsui, the major tourist hub in Hong Kong, with many shops and restaurants established there.

There are a lot of musuems in Tsim Sha Tsui but we did not visit them on that day. It would be quite crowded if we visit these places on weekends and it would be free admission on Wednesday for these musuems.

Fuwas, at Victoria Harbour, on the Avenue of Stars

Lights up ~~

Ling, me, Chin Nam… (Shin Keat?? He was very busy taking panaromic view at TST :P

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) @ Wan Chai

The Big Ben in Hong Kong (TST Clock Tower)

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Popularity: 12% [?]