I am trying to finish writing about our trip to Hong Kong so I can move on to what is happening this week.
Last Tuesday (February 3) we went to Ocean Park. This was recommended in a lot of my travel books as a place the kids would enjoy. It is sort of like Sea World. There are dolphins and sea lions that you can see and they perform in a show (although we didn't get to see either one). The extraordinary thing about Ocean Park is it is completely built on a mountainside! So there are maybe 2 or 3 attractions at various levels of this hill but you have to keep climbing up in order to get to the next thing. The park has built escalators to transport visitors up the hill. The view at the top was incredible! There are attractions on 2 sides of the mountain so once you arrive at the top you can take a cable car down the other side.
The picture above is the view from the restaurant where we had lunch. We mainly did some rides, saw the aquarium (none of my pictures turned out) and then had lunch. We saw they had panda bears on the other side of the park so we took the cable car down. The pandas didn't really go with the whole ocean theme but they are apparently being kept at the park temporarily after being taken from Chengdu after the earthquake. Chengdu is the area of China where they have the panda conservation park. My pictures came out fuzzy but I'll post the best one I have. The other picture is of some monkeys I ran into.
It started to get hot and a little too crowded for us so we left in the late afternoon and headed back to the hotel for a rest. In the evening we walked Nathan Road, which is a famous street in Hong Kong and quite close to our hotel and then found yet another Italian place to eat supper before heading back to the hotel and falling asleep.
