Travel to the Corners of the World

Day 2-Hong Kong 12th of March 2009

12:27 AM

Breakfast at Coffee House-->Cab to Ocean Park-->Cab to Avenue of Stars-->Symphony of Lights Show-->Dinner at Nathan's Road-->Night Shopping along Nathan's Road

Today, we woke up at around 730am and get ready for the day. It was a very good day to Ocean Park as the weather looks real fine. I am quite excited for today because we will be going to Ocean Park for one whole day and I can see my favourite Panda and Dolphin!! Also I am all ready for the thrilling rides!! We meet up at around 8am before going for our breakfast.

For today's breakfast, we went to a coffee house just opposite Dragon hostel.

The food displayed outside the shop make my mouth watery

Part of the menu

Inside the coffee house. Thinking of what to order

I ordered a cuppa of tea, a egg and ham sandwich and a french toast all which cost me around S$7. I like the french toast especially because once I see it, it opens my stomach. The combination of the egg bread, the butter and the peanut butter in between the egg goes very well. Deliciouslishly

Other foodie that was on the table

A gong gong(blur blur) cutting the french toast

After having our dinner, we proceed to Ocean Park by hailing a cab. Damn it, we(Me, QiJun, YongLiang, CheeHiang) was tok(cut aka cheated) by the cab driver. Our cab fare always were the most expensive. On day 1 when we took the cab to our hostel, our fare were also the most expensive compared to the rest. Dunno is whether we suay(unlucky) or what. The cab fare cost each of us around S$4

On our way to Ocean Park

This signifies that we are reaching Ocean Park as you can see the cable car is within the reach of my eyesight

Yes finally!! We reached

Ocean Park entrance

This was the ticket to Ocean Park. We brought it directly from our hostel. You could actually purchase Ocean Park and Disneyland ticket directly from Dragon Hostel which give a better rate. The actual price for Ocean Park ticket is around S$42 but we brought it for around s$39

I am excited!!

Yes finally I get to see Dolphin although its a fake one!!

Outside one of the sourvenir shop. The sourvenir inside th shop make my heart itchie cause there are quite a few items that I wanna buy but some are quite expensive

The first attraction that we are going- Giant Panda habitat

But before that, Stacey and Janice tried on the Bunge Trampoline located at the Sky Fair

The foot of the Giant Panda Habitat. Know what am I looking at? Secret... Wee Woo Wee~

The guys with the Sky Fair as the background

Finally we reached the Giant Panda Habitat

A very classic pregnant panda

Heeee heee heee heee

Panda munching his/her bamboo away. Guess whether is he or a she? Pai Seh. Too black I cannot differentiate

I got a photo with panda!!

It is bad to eat while lying down eh... Must ask you mother to teach you already

Another photo with Panda!!

Panda on the rock

Get me out!! I wan go gai gai(shopping)!!

Sitting while sleeping. Or was he/she playing with his/her... Who knows =D

Taking photo with a real life panda!! Woo hoo~

Posing for the camera. So Kawaii!!

Sourvenir shop at the Giant Panda Habitat. I so wanna buy the big one home

Panda in a dustbin

The gigantic black panda. Scary

A final photo with the pandas before proceeding to the Dolphin University

While we are on our way

We came across this shark mascot which was overwhelmed by us

Yeshie is so indulged and enjoying being surrounded by... WooHoo~

A quick photo

While we are on our way to Dolphin University, we came across Whiskers Theatre where a bird show is coming up. So we went in to have a look

Colourful Parrot

The Owl

As we want to save time, we left while the show was still ongoing and proceed to Dolphin University which was beside Whisker Theatre

The dolphin University was a place where dolphin was trained for the performance and show at the Ocean Theatre. We were lucky that the Dolphins were having training!!

Arghhh!! Dolphin is so slimy and cute!!

The awards for a good performance

Dolphin wading in the water

Free willy!! Thanks to my camera skill, I was able to capture this image!!

I so wanna swim with them one day!! Dolphin wait for me!!

After the great display by the dolphin we left for our next destination: The cable car ride!!

While on the way out of the Dolphin University, there is an exhibition of the sealion

A quick shot again. Wonder what Janice is doing... Chee Hiang naughty ar...

Reaching the cable car station. The experience of the cable car ride is definitely different from Singapore Sentosa Cable car. The scenery is much much nicer compared to Singapore because of the mountain and sea view

We got ourselves into the cabin!!

From left to right: The innocent look, The ah beng look, the diao(stare) look, the baby don't friend you look, the kek sai(endure shit) look

In the cabin

Setting off

The front view of the cabin

The great wall of Hong Kong. You could actually go to the other side of Ocean Park through this freaking stairs!!

The back view

The side view

Half-way through the ride

Reaching our destination

A last photo before getting off

While we were to get off, we were greeted with this sign. Are they asking us to be careful of the wet floor or asking us to take car as a form of goodbye?

After getting off the cable car, we proceed to the next attraction: Sea Jelly Spectacular. An exhibition of Jelly Fish

The jellyfish glowing under the light

After that, we proceed to our first thrilling ride of the day-The Dragon Roller Coaster

The roller coaster track. Looks fun

Queuing up for the ride

The ride is not as scary as you thought it to be. Although the track looks scary, but the speed is not that fast

After the roller coaster ride, we proceed to the next ride: Pirate ship
The pirate ship is a preparation for what we thought is the scariest ride-The Abyss

On the pirate ship

The Abyss viewed from the Cable Car station

Look scary? Yes it is. I so wanted to try this ride in my life. Before the ride, I was always thinking whether my heart can take it or not... That kind of want to try but don't want to die feeling

The death seats. When I was on this ride, I covered my mouth with my hand because I scared that when I was dropped from the sky, the gravity will push my heart out from my mouth. Scary...

When I was dropped from the sky, my heart feels like it stopped for a while before it pumps again. And once I conquered the ride, I feel a sense of achievement!!

After we conquered The Abyss, we went for this ride called Eagle. It is a ride that will only make your head giddy

Fly like a Eagle

Next, we went on another roller coaster ride called Mine Train. It was more thrilling than The Dragon as it is faster and more downwards ride. Also it is great with scenery!

Mine Train

Great scenery!!

Next its time to get wet. We went on this ride called the Raging River. It is similiar to Singapore Escape Theme Park Log Flume ride but I would prefer Singapore one because it is higher which is equivalent to more thrilling. Whats more, Singapore one has 2 slide while Ocean Park only has 1

Lucky for me, I did bought a poncho to Ocean Park so when we played the raging river, I am the only one who is not wet. Clever Ricky =D

The Entrance

Proof that this slide was smaller than Singapore Escape Theme Park one

After taking the not so interesting mini water slide, we proceed on to our next ride which is the Space Wheel to blow dry ourselves

Another giddy ride and it can go till vertical eh

After all those ride, it's time for picture. Ocean Park has a lot of very long escalator. It looks similiar to the one in the popular cartoon Tom & Jerry where tom take the escalator all the way up to heaven... And we take this opportunity to take photos!!

A scenery shot

Taking another photo. Chee Hiang, is the photographer that scary??

Proof of the long escalator. We can even sit down and it takes around 45secs to 1min and a half to reach the end. Feeling hungry, we went to search for food which was around pm plus. We play till we forgot about the time eh

Ocean Park have various restaurants selling different kinds of food. The price range around S$8-S$10. There is also a Macdonald restaurant in Ocean Park so you doesn't have to worry about going hungry

I bought a 2pc Chicken set not from KFC of course and it cost me around S$9. Wasn't that tasty though because it was a bit oily which will make you sick of eating it

While we were searching for foodie, we saw this cute sleeping sealion although it did came into my mind as food though =)

Another Sealion-looking for fish

We came across this Hong Kong styled phone booth

After our late lunch, there is game booths beside the Macdonald and so we went over to try our skill in it

I played the basketball but didn't win anything.Too difficult to get the ball into the let because it is bouncy and big while the ring was relatively small =(

The game booth

Yong Liang playing the basketball booth

After spending our time at the games booth, we went to catch the last dolphin and sealion performance at the Ocean Theatre

The stage

While we were waiting for the show to start, there was actually a musical performance to keep us entertained

The performance starts!!

After the dolphins are in the limelight, it's time for the sealion

The sealion doing not 2 but 1 hand stand!! Strong!!

It was a great performance. I bet it is a must watch performance if you were to go Ocean Park. But you would have to go earlier before the show starts because at the previous time slot, the place is full before the show starts

Didn't get enough of the performance? Here's a short video clip of the dolphin!

After the performance, Fiona, Janice and I went for the last attraction as the afternoon is not young anymore which is the Atoll Reef. Similiar to Singapore Underwater World but for Ocean Park, theirs is a very huge and deep pool where you start from the top and walk your way down to the ground level

The Entrance

One of the fish that have YeSheng sexy lips

Can you find Nemo?

mini eel

The deep deep ocean

After the Atoll Reef, it was already 6pm plus(Ocean Park close at 6pm) and thus we walk our way out of the exit

Fiona with CheeHiang tiger where he won from the games booth

At the exit where the Flamingoes and Swans bid farewell to us

After a great day at Ocean Park, we took a cab down to Avenue of Stars which cost each person around S$6. It is a place similiar to Singapore Esplanade bay(the place where we usually watch fireworks) where we can watch not only Hong Kong beautiful building skyline but also features commerative plaques, handprints of movie celebraties etc. to pay tribute to Hong Kong professionals who have contributed to their long history of film making

Also we are there to watch the spectacular symphony of lights show

The skyline here compared to Singapore was much more nicer as Singapore building skyline consist only of a few buildings while Hong Kong skyline consist of a stretch of buildings. It is like a stretch of buildings from one end of Orchard road to the other

The Bruce Lee Statue

Jet Li handprint

The Hong Kong colourful building skyline

I feel that Avenue of Star is a very romantic place for couples to go to during the night where you can listin to the singing of the choppy waves and also with the very cooling weather(it must be around 17-20 degree celsius when we are there). If there is an additional hot food for consumption even if it is a hot cup noodles, the feeling will be damn shiok!!

When the clock strike 8pm, it is time for the Symphony of light show. However, it was not that spectacular though because you only see the same laser flying around the sky with the music. So after a while you would feel quite boring of it

Symphony of light show

A naked woman covered by films holding a globe on her hand

Avenue of Stars

A singing performance along the avenue of stars

Ready camera Action!

A group photo before we leave Avenue of Star to pamper our hungry stomach. We cross the street and went to Nathan's Road in search for food.

Nathan's road is a stretch of road(4MTR long) which is lined with shops and restaurants so it may be a good place to shop

Nathan's Road

We found a restaurant to feed our stomach

The pork baked rice that I ordered which cost me around S$9. My dinner cost me around S$13 including a drink and a side dish

Other foodies

After dinner, we went to shop along Nathan's Road but due to the limited time that we have and the strong shopping power of the girls, we didn't really cover much of Nathan's Road

Chee Hiang and Yong Liang playing five-ten using their tiger while waiting for the girls to shop. Yup the guys literally waited for the girls outside the shop indulging in playing five-ten

It was already 11pm plus and most of the shop was closing. Thus we proceed back to our hostel after a very exciting Day 2

Cheers~

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Ricky Peh