Ocean Park, Hongkong
Ocean Park Hong Kong (Traditional Chinese: 海洋公園; Pinyin: Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán) is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. The marine-themed amusement park covers the area of Wong Chuk Hang and Nam Long Shan, and is Hong Kong's very own theme park. Public can go to Ocean Park by taxi or Citybus.
The park, recognized as one of the 'Ten of the World’s Most Popular Amusement Parks’ on Forbes.com in June 2006, has 4.38 million visitors annually in year 2005/2006. It has an area of 870,000 square metres. The different parts of the park are connected by cable car, as well as the world's second longest outdoor escalator. The theme park currently has over 40 rides and attractions.
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Ocean Park features a Giant panda exhibit, a butterfly garden, a shark tank, and a three-story aquarium, as well as numerous rides. The park also has its own cable car system, which takes visitors from one side of the park to the other (the two parts are separated from each other by hills). The official mascot of Ocean Park is "Whiskers"—a waving sealion.
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Besides being an amusement park, Ocean Park Hong Kong also includes observatories, well developed laboratories, an education department and a Whales And Dolphins Fund.
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Ocean Park Hong Kong was the first institution in the world to have success in artificial insemination of bottle nose dolphins, and developed numerous new breeds of goldfish, proving the standard of its laboratories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Park,_Hong_Kong
Here is the official website of Ocean Park :
http://www.oceanpark.com.hk/eng/main/index.html
We been to Ocean Park 3 times. First visit was brilliant, second visit was allright, third visit was on 2005 with our son. Trip to the park was allright ... good entertainment for our kid. But we have an impression that Ocean Park being abandoned ... especially it was in the same time with Disneyland Hongkong Opening.
Make sure you visit 'Atoll Reef', you will find all sort of fishy out there. The marine park also have a good selection of live sharks.
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The park also have a good view gallery for sea lion. You can see the park keeper feeding the sea lion, and if you go down to the basement of the exhibit you can see the sea lion swimming around under the water.
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We did not have enough time to see the panda on our visits ... make sure if you visit the park you visit the panda first then you can have a look around the rest of the park.
