Hongkong Trip (Day 4)

now... its day 4!

after having some lao po bing and other goodies as breakfast, we head off to jordan station, taking the train to admiralty station. exiting from the station, we bought the tickets at HK$208 each and then took the citibus 629 to ocean park. Bus fare is HK$10.60.

Along the bus journey, we passed by Aberdeen bay, the scenery is really nice.






















As it is sunday, there are many other people on the bus as well. i noticed that hongkongers employ a lot of filipinos as helpers, one can see them all over the place today perhaps since its their off day. we reached ocean park in around 15mins.






















As we enter the park, grabbed a map of the park, and started to venture around... so many escalator, wonder why the government choose this hilly place to build this park? its either stairs or escalator.. Think in time to come, the park will lose more business as more population turn grey..

Along the way up the hilly park, saw the park keepers feeding the baby sea lions. i suspect the keepers are using this as a chance to train the sea lions to listen to instructions. see the photo below, the wand with the green head on the lady's left is the thing that sea lions would watch out and follow. when the sea lions follow the wand obediently, he/she will be handsomely rewarded with a big fish.. so yummy that another sea lion is watching jealously.. lol.




















ho hoo... dolphin show at 11.30am.. and ... we are hungry. so, we ate char siew / roast duck rice at HK$45. though pricey, i think its well worth it. the char is thick and nicely prepared. the rice grain is well defined, neither the mushy type nor the too dry type. i almost took it for taiwanese rice.

After clearing off the lovely food, off we go to the dolphin show, the show is quite nicely done but as compared to the gold coast sea world, i think there's way too simple. Here's a shot of the dolphin showing off its "high jump"..





























After the show, we took the ocean park tower to have a good view of the whole park. Quite nice, would have queued again if not for the 20min long queue.

Guess what. There is the jerllyfish gallery! its a fascinating sight to see the jelly thing float around and coupled with the lightings, the image is real cool.




































Noticed that i have 'borrowed' a number of shots from my brother? He's holding to a newer/better camera. The sensor is more sensitive and accurate.. think its time to retire the old D70s. anyone interested?

Took cable car to the lower section of the park, again, happily snapping photos of the surrounding. Out of the cable car, surprised to see a panda gallery, a very cool (as in the temperature) environment for the precious gigantic panda. The pandas are the gift from china when hongkong was reunited with the mainland. quite envy of the pandas, controlled temperature, controlled humidity and good food, life's good --> LG. :)





















Just beside the panda gallery, another nice gallery.. the goldfishes! there are many different types of goldfishes, and the gallery even bring us through the 'development' of the goldfishes.






















what's left in the park are for kids, so being the big kids as we are, we left the park for more shopping in the causeway bay area. Took the bus service 65 at HK$6 which take only about 10mins. very near indeed.

Went Sogo, time square, had an eye opener at the road side wet market. whenever the market goers approach the stall holders, the prawns and fishes are then brought out and displayed. hence, the prawns are still flipping and the fishes are still puffing! most of the sea food are alive and not dead like in Singapore. Had a egg tart. just out of the oven and cheap too. HK$2.50 for 1.

lastly we combed the shops along yee wor street. shopping result - still nothing. in the end, had dinner at the Mac and went back hotel to surf net. its expensive in eaton hotel man... HK$3 per min. but luckily, there is a ceiling limit of HK$130 for every 24 hours. so still not that bad... you just need to surf more than 1 hour and you will hit the limit already. This is so different from macau in golden dragon where its free and the staff even delivered the RJ45 and power adaptor to our room! now this is customer service.