Hong Kong Trip Part 7: Ocean Park (海洋公園) with Pandas

[Introduction]

I traveled to Hong Kong for five days and four nights in the end of November for the first time in five years. While there is a lot of scenery which has been unchanged, I find out something new whenever I visit Hong Kong. In this article, I will write about Ocean Park (海洋公園) as part of Day 3
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[Visit Places (series of articles)]
* Day 1: Going to Hong Kong
* Day 1: Tsim Sha Tsui
* Day 1: Tsim Sha Tsui (Light-up)
* Day 2: HKU and Kennedy Town
* Day 2: Sheung Wan and Central
* Day 2: Peak Tower and Central (Light-up)
* Day 3: Ocean Park [This article]
* Day 3: Montane Mansion, North Point and Causeway Bay
* Day 3: Causeway Bay and Wan Chai (Light-up)
* Day 4: Wong Tai Sin Temple, Nan Lian Garden and Tian Tan Buddha (Lantau Island)
* Day 4: Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei and Jordan
* Day 4: Sky 100 and Tsim Sha Tsui (Light-up)
* Day 5: Return Home

[Travel Date]
2017.11.26-30

[Main Part]

Breakfast at Sweet Dynasty (糖朝)

The third day of my Hong Kong trip started. To begin with, I visited Sweet Dynasty (糖朝) to have a breakfast.

Sweet Dynasty (糖朝) is a sweets restaurant. It has expanded its business to Japan since 2002 and now has about 10 branches.

Sweet Dynasty is famous as a leading restaurant of Hong Kong sweets, so I ordered some sweets.

Go to Ocean Park by MTR South Island Line

I will visit Ocean Park (海洋公園) after breakfast. MTR South Island Line has started its operation between Admiralty and South Horizons since December 28, 2016, which increases accessibility to Ocean Park.

I moved from Tsim Sha Tsui to Admiralty and then transferred to South Island Line.

I arrived at Ocean Park station.

Just after I went out of the station, there was an entrance of Ocean Park.

Ocean Park is a multi-complex park that opened in 1977. It has zoo, aquarium and amusement park etc. and consists of two areas, “The Waterfront” and “The Summit”.

The Waterfront

To begin with, I started to walk around the Waterfront area.

First, I visited “Grand Aquarium”.

If you are an aquarium lover, please see the following articles.
・Okinawa: Churaumi Aquarium
・Singapore: S.E.A. Aquarium
・Hiroshima: Miyajima Public Aquarium
・Malaysia: Aquaria KLCC

There are two pandas in Ocean Park. When I visited the park, one of them was sleeping but the other stayed awake.

He/she was eating feeds.

Talking of panda, when I visited River Safari in Singapore before, both of two pandas were sleeping, so I was lucky this time.

In addition to pandas, the park had a variety of animals.

There was “Old Hong Kong”, a street that recreated old days in Hong Kong.

A acrobatic show was performed at the square.

Now I will have a lunch. I stopped by “Panda Cafe”.

I ordered Taiwanese beef noodle.

The Summit

I will move from the Waterfront area to the Summit area. Trains (Oceans Express) and cable cars are available to move between two areas and I chose Oceans Express.

The concept of Ocean Express is a submarine that moves underseas.

Just like the Waterfront area, the Summit area had cute animals. For example, penguins.

I just happened to see a feeding time.

Seal. It was so big.

This is arctic white fox.

As the name suggests, the Summit area is located at the top of a mountain, so visitors were able to enjoy beautiful scenery.

Now I will return. This time, I used the cable car to go back to the Waterfront area.

View from the cable car.

Although the weather was not so good overall, the sky became sunny around this time.

Then, I left Ocean Park and moved to the next destination.

[Closing]

That’s it for the article about Ocean Park (海洋公園) as part of Day 3 of my Hong Kong trip.

As far as I heard, Ocean Park is more popular than Disney Land in Hong Kong, but it was inconvenient for foreign tourists to visit it, because the access to the park used to be either bus or car. However, since MTR South Island Line opened at the end of 2016, it has been more easily accessible. In particular, it would be suitable for young families with kids 🙂

FYI: “KKday” offers a discount ticket for Ocean Park. So if you are interested it, please check the following link.