Ocean park.. continued

Ocean park visit would not be complete with out a mention about the Dolphin Show. The enthralling show is for about 45 mins in a big and perfect am phi theatre facing the sea. The show revolves around a theme of how humans discovered animals and how animals discovered humans as their friends. The dolphins are very well trained to perform various feats. They even dance on hearing music played!

Reaching ocean park is not so easy job. Or it appears "not so easy" to the people staying in Hong Kong island may be merely because of the convenient travel facilities like Tram and MTR.

The night before I visited Ocean Park, I along with two of my Indian friends went to "the peak" in Hong Kong. "Peak", as the name suggests is the highest altitude point in Hong Kong from where you get a panoramic view of Hong Kong city. It was chilling cold outside and I, to show off my rebelness, went without sweater. It was very cold with wind blowing at great speeds at the peak. We posed for photos, took some photos for others and came back to home by "peak tram" ( a train which runs between the peak and the city).

I was disappointed after loading the photos into computer to see that they are not of very good quality. I happened to buy a new camera that day morning and my first photo session was at peak. It turned out to be dark and the camera didn't really have best features to capture photos in the dark, a fact that i realized later, repented for a while and learnt to live with after speaking to the sales person from Broadway (electronics retail chain from where i bought the camera)who taught me how to appreciate the existing features in the camera.

a view from the peak:



a thrill from the peak :)


After some hard enjoyment at the peak, our plan was to visit Ocean park the next day morning at 10AM. the plan seemed perfect on paper (in mind rather!, since we never put it on paper), but no one woke up early in the morning. I was the last to getup from bed at 11AM and i had to guide my Indian friends to ocean park. I searched on Internet and gave them the direction to reach ocean park, which they followed and reached by 12 noon. I could make it to the park only at 2PM, and by then they had already tried the raging river ride.

The first thing i tried in the ocean park was the roller coaster. the best thing about this roller coaster is the location its situated at - next to the sea. At some point in the ride, you soar over the sea.

first roller coaster ride:

Ocean Park @ Hong Kong

Last week i had been to Ocean park in Hong Kong with a couple of Indian friends who are here for a short business trip. I am not here to use too many cliches to describe the park, but i cant resist saying the park was just amazing. Well there is not much to see there. Everything out there needs to be tried out and felt. Roller coasters, raging river, Abyss, Eagle etc are the rides one should experience. Especially Abyss had been the best experience for me so far. Its an elevator kind of structure attached to a pole in the open air. About 100-150 Mt's height. It takes you to that height and falls off from there. You will come down like a free falling body [ you can calculate your velocity as sq rt.(mgh), by neglecting air resistance for simplicity sake..] Completely controlled by air pressure, it drops you down almost till the bottom of the pole and raises up again immediately (pumped by the air pressure). It kind of shakes you up and down for 3 times before you get down.

I had my first roller coaster (referred as RC hereafter) ride in hong kong. There are 2 RCs in ocean park. One of them, called Dragon, is the bigger one and for some reason it was not functional when we visited the park. So we had to get into the smaller roller coaster. It had some high definition cameras to capture photographs while on RC ride. It was very difficult to control the expression while on RC ride. The best thing about the visit to Ocean Park is the weather. It was cool through out the day with temperates hovering around 10 degrees ( not Kelvin, Celsius :)...).

Raging river is another nice ride in a boat-like structure moving on the track submerged in water. You will feel like you are rowing in a river. I didn't attempt the raging river ride because of the cool weather.

The highlight was Abyss. Its a perfect beginning if you want to try more adventurous stuff (like Bangui jump etc) in future.

This weekend we are planning to visit some places in China. It all depends on whether we would get visa at the right time. Will post the updates soon ...