Day 7

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Today we went to Ocean Park. It is kind of a cross between an amusement park and a zoo. They have roller costar rides and panda bears and an aquarium and a really cool jelly fish exhibit. We spent most of the day here and I have posted some of the pictures we took. 

The Park is on one of the mountains in Hong Kong. It is on both sides of the mountain so they have these cable cars to get from one side to the other. We decided to start on the side with all the rides. 

This is Jacob, Jason, and I waiting to ride the Abyss.

This is the Abyss. It raises you up to the top and then drops you. There is an incredible view and I tried to take my camera up to the top with me to take a picture but I got caught and had to put it away.

This is the view with one of the roller coasters in the background. Crazy huh?

This is a picture of the Dragon roller coaster. It does a double loop and is pretty fun.

This is an Indian man that Jason met in line so of coarse we had to take a picture with him. 

Because the park is on a mountain there are these huge escalators to get you to different levels to ride different rides. 

These plants are outside the Jelly Fish Exhibit. Pretty cleaver eh?

The jelly fish were amazing. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of them.

Here is another one.

And some more. The lights they put on the jelly fish made them look really neat. 

This is a fish in the aquarium, not sure what kind but it looks cool.

This is a HUGE sting ray. It was just chilling at the bottom of the aquarium. 

This is a sea dragon. I have never seen anything like it before but they were way awesome looking!

This is An An, one of the  pandas in the panda exhibit. It came right to the glass to say hi before it went back to eating. 

I love this picture. How cute and cuddly is this panda bear? Watching it eat was super cool too because it would just tear all the leaves off the branch one at a time in  it's mouth until it's mouth was full of like 20 leaves.

This was a clown that we saw on our way out. We thought he looked cool so we took a picture with him. 

They have super cool costumes there. I'm not sure what this guy is supposed to be but the thing on his head looks like a butterfly.

On the way out we saw some Chinese acrobats. I got some video before my camera died. They were pretty amazing.

After Ocean Park, we were all pretty worn out so we went home and ate dinner and started getting ready to leave for mainland China the next day.