Excitement at Ocean Park

18th September 2010

We woke up as early as we can in order for us to look for breakfast before starting our day which need lots of energy. There is no coffee house nearby the place we stay, so we plan to stopby Yuen Long. It's kinda hard to look for place to have breakfast as most of the shops are still close. Maybe too early gua.. Luckily Sam saw this small little tiny shop which I think can fit less than 12-16 people. They served normal breakfast meal such as toast bread with egg or even noddle soup with egg.

Most of us order this; Noodle soup with luncheon meat, ham and egg. Extra HK$1 for milk tea

Not bad as I not choosy when comes to food.

As what I had planned for this trip, our plan for today is going to one of the four major Hong Kong attractions which was Ocean Park. Ocean Park is Hong Kong's homegrown theme park. The interesting part of Ocean Park is that it is not just serve as theme park, it's also a place where we able to enjoy a real marine wildlife performance by the dolphins and sea lions. This is my second visit to Ocean Park.

Lovely admission ticket

Admission fee: HK$250 (adults); HK$125

However, we managed to buy at the price of HK$222 per adult. This ticket is available at the Admiralty MTR Station, before taking bus. Not from the counter nearby the bus but is the counter which is inside station. We was quite confuse when the counter which nearby bus was selling at the price at HK$250 but ours is HK$222. At first, we thought the one we bought are not valid or in other words; fake ticket. Luckily, it was not.

There are 2 entrance for Ocean Park; main entrance (lowland) and the other is Tai Shue Wan entrance (headland).

Ocean Park Tai Shue Wan Entrance


Flamigo pond, once you enter the entrance



This is the place to watch the sea lion and seals and their underwater acrobatics from the underwater viewing gallery


Growing stage of seals

Food kiosk in case when you are hungry

Here comes my favourite part in Ocean Park, Ocean Theatre

I had watched these shows 5 years ago and I'm guess that I lucky enough as I'm not just able to witness the amazing intelligence and grace dolphins and the playful sea lions performance, I also witness the performance the black big whale. But too bad, it died few years later. Don't miss the chance to watch this marine wildlife show everytime you visit Ocean Park and do check out the show time. It's not to be miss show!

Since it's summer in Hong Kong and all of us were sweating like hell. It's damn hot, so we decided to take cable car to the lowland. Ocean Park consists of Lowland and Headland, which are connected by cable car.

If you scare of height, you can take the alternative ride on Ocean Express Summit Station.

When my first visit, me and my family don't have the chance to witness panda. This is the bad thing of joining travel agent as limitation of time. So, I am overwhelming when I got the chance this time around.

There are 4 pandas and they are absolutely damn cute...


Is this goldfish? Hahaha...


Haagen Danz provide you a comfort seats. xP

How to get there: Bus 629 from Admiralty MTR Station, Exit B
Opening hours: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (Monday -Fri); 10:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sat); 9:30 am - 7:00 pm (Sun)

Please do visit http://www.oceanpark.com.hk/html/en/home/ for more info especially on the show time as it is vary from time to time.

Mesmerising Night at Tsim Sha Tshui, Hong Kong

17th September 2010

We reached Sheung Wan station, Hong Kong around 6 pm. As what I had planned for this trip, we departed to Tsim Sha Tsui using MTR (which is similar to Malaysia LRT) to the one of the most popular tourist attractions in Hong Kong, Avenue of Stars. Using MTR is so easy and most of the popular tourist spots is stated on the signboard. Besides that, using the Octopus card which is similar to the "Touch and Go" card is highly recommended as it is much more convenient.

We walked behind Sogo Complex Mall and we reached earlier before the stunning show start. It is the perfect time to take lots of pics as it is not that crowded but too bad, i miss that opportunities. So sad (-_-). We were too tired so we find a seat to settle down.

Exactly at 8pm, it's time for the Symphony of Lights which last for 10 minutes. This spectacular multimedia show, named the world's largest permanent light and sound show by Guinness Eorld Records, combines light and narration while featuring more than 40 buildings on both sides of Victoria Harbour. The show creates an allround vision of coloured lights, laser beams and searchlights performing a stunning, unforgettable spectacle synchronised to music and narration that celebrates the energy, spirit and diversity of Hong Kong.

Amazing night view across Victoria Harbour

A Symphony of Lights brightens the Hong Kong skyline

Besides enjoying the stunning and mesmerising show, this is the place also features handprints and statue of the movie superstars such as the legendary kung fu, Bruce Lee and also those behind the camera.

Statue of Bruce Lee

Jet Li's handprint

Andy Lau's handprint

Only able to catch these 2 handprints as both are one of my HK favourite celebrities

You able to find different celebrities' handprints along the way

How to get there: Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Exit E, walk towards harbour and go through subway (pedestriab tunnel) to the waterfront; or East Tsim Sha Tsui KCR Exit J, walk through subway and follow the directional signs to the Avenue of Stars.

Because some of us are extremely exhausted, we decided to have our dinner at Sogo Complex Mall before back to our place at Tin Shui Wai.

Food Court at Sogo Complex Mall; variety of choices

Have A Break, Have A Pocky

This Pocky Chocolate stick which I bought from Japan.

It is so delicious but too bad, I just bought 1 box from the 7-11 shop in Tokyo :(..

Wish to go there again. Maybe in 3 years time..

By the way, more to come for my "Summer Hong Kong & Macau" and "Autumn Japan" trip. Cheers

Sweet Getaway to Hong Kong & Macau (Episode 4)

Date of Visited: 17th September 2010

Today, it is the last day of our Macau trip before heading back to Hong Kong. We woke up at 9 am and had our complimentary American breakfast before check+ing out. We decided to take shuttle bus to The Sands in order for us to deposit our luggage, so that it will be easy for us to tour around Macau. This is what most of us keep saying "fully utilise their facilities mah".

Like what I said in my previous post, today we plan to look towards Macau main attraction places. Once again, hopping on shuttle bus from The Sands to the main attractions.

It is not difficult to find the places that we want to go as there is sign showing us the way and good thing for a banana people like me is that it's written in English.

What a sunny day in the city of Asia's Las Vegas?


I' m so love with this "M" sign wherever I'm travelling. Too bad never had the chance to try it

As what recommended by most bloggers, I decided to search Senado Square (which I do not exactly what place is all about at the first place, not until when I reach there)....

Gosh. It's awesome but too bad it is damn hot than Malaysia. Hardly to believe!

Took for a few pictures and we're move on to the next destination. All along the way, you can stopby for shopping. Giordano, Bossini and etc, stopby and shop. We plan to shop at Hong Kong as we do not want to bring a big and heavy bag all along our way back to Hong Kong. Besides that, there is a church nearby.

St. Dominic's Church (left); Interior of the church (right)

While busy glance glance at the shops, streets and even people around us, never thought we had reached the place that "must-visit when in Macau". Yes, the Ruins of St. Pauls. When watching tv and saw this facade, sure will say "That place is Macau".

From far far away...

Now getting closer to it

Finally more closer to it

Saw this advertisement nearby and it caught my eyes

It was really really really a hot weather and we decided to take a quick photo and went off. In the mean time, we were looking around to hunt for Portuguese most famous food; Portuguese egg tart and pork chop bun.

Saw this lovely small shop with cute signboard, we decided to try the egg tart and the pork chop bun.

Pork chop bun

The result: The Portuguese egg tart (HK$5) is not as crispy as what most of the bloggers recommend. The pork chop bun is so so only. No need to shout out for it. Maybe should try the other in famous shop by the way.

Then, we heading to Lisboa Casino as one of my friend would like to try his luck in gambling. Maybe no luck, he then changed his mind and wanted to go The Sands to try his luck again. Maybe today wasn't his day. I'm not sure how much he lose but seems like a huge amount (==")

The building of Sand. In chinese, they call "Golden Sands". Just like the building

There is theme park nearby The Sands. Did I heard wrong? Theme park in Macau? No kidding. The name of this theme park is Macau Fisherman's Wharf. But due to our time is so limited, a big "NO" to this as we preferred to save our "ka-ching" for Hong Kong's theme park. Or maybe next time when we have more spare time.

Photo of Macau Fisherman's Wharf by Vincent

At 4 pm, we took speedboat back to Hong Kong. Finally, I get to ride on the red ferry, Turbojet. By the way, no differences compare to the previous speedboat which I took. :P

We had to queue and wait for further instruction in order to for us to board on 5 pm as the time shown in our ticket is 8pm. Luckily we have the patient to wait or else, we end up taking the onwards ferry where we need to queue from the beginning again. Like my sis always tell me "Orang Sabah mesti Sabar bah!" Hahaha.. I love this.

Goodbye Macau. Gonna miss you

Next post: A spectacular night view of Hong Kong

Sweet Getaway to Hong Kong & Macau (Episode 3)

Date of Visited: 16th September 2010

Macau (Part II)

After taking a break for half an hour (refer previous post), we moved on to our next destination, The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel.

Besides a large casino and 5-star hotel, it is also one stop for shop luxury stores. But what breathtaking is the Venice replicas. Built on the second floor, this Venetian themes comes with canal system and you could take for a gondola ride. You could feel like you are visiting Italy instead of Macau. What's the different is that you can avoid from the hot weather or even heavy rain, you still can stroll by the canals under the mesmerizing and impressive Venice faux sky.

San Luca canal



~dt~ in The Venetian




So regret for not shopping more at this shop



This clock reminds me of Prague, Crezc Republic which I had not yet blog about it

Since The Venetian is the place for us to take pic but not shopping and gambling, we hang around for less than an hour. Outside the Venetian, we saw Hard Rock Hotel which was opened last year June.

Group photo outside The Venetian

Hard Rock Hotel, located in City of Dreams

We walk around Hard Rock Hotel for a short period of time before heading for the dinner.

This one took by me. Not copy and paste from other source. Nice or not?


I took this pic while waiting for bus. Outside The Hardrock Cafe. Damn nice and beautiful.

Our dinner for the night is in Cozinha Pinocchio, which serve Portuguese cuisine. It is located in Taipa Village by famous “Rua de Cunha” where there are numerous souvenir shops. We took shutter bus from Hard Rock Hotel to there. Then, a short walking distance before reaching the restaurant.

Another famous restaurant in Macau - Dumbo Restaurant.



This is the one we dine in.



Cozinha Pinocchio menu



Road of Rua de Cunha

Before back to the hotel, we stopby one of the famous bakery shop to buy their local biscuits and snacks. As the night is still young, we plan to walk around our hotel as we saw the night scenery is so pretty during our journey back to the hotel inside the bus.

Beautiful night scenary of Macau



Macau-Taipa Bridge



Behind us is the Macau Tower.

That's my first visit to Macau. Next post is the main spots in Macau and our journey back to Hong Kong. Stay tune~