Friday 30th, Day 4. Humidity: 88 degrees
Today we went to Ocean Park!
Ant is scratching his bum hole as I type; it's very distracting.
Back to Ocean Park - To get to Ocean Park, we had to catch the train to Admiralty then hop onto Bus 629. The Park is made up of two little islands connected via either an underground train or cable car. We rode the underground train to get from the first to the second island, and then rode the cable car to get back. It's amazing the construction work that has gone into making a hilly island a theme park of that magnitude, while still maintaining the natural fauna.
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| Ocean Park |
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| giant crab |
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| cable car |
We spent quite a while there - we saw enclosures with asian animals (panda, red panda, some exotic looking birds) and saw amazing demonstrations with jelly fishes, dolphins and seals. We arrived at about 11:30am and didn't leave until 4:30, straight after the dolphin show.
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| Ocean Park dolphin show |
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| coral |
After popping back to the hotel, we went and exchanged some currency. We've only got about hk$500 from what we started with. It's thanks to Aunty Georgina and Uncle Andrew that we had so much Canadian and American dollars to last us the first 3 days. The exchange rate was 7.2. After a bit of walking around we found two more foreign exchange places that offered better rates.
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| dinner: snail + prawns |
With our full wallets, we went off to Temple Street night market. I bought some little purchases like a bracelet, a ring holder and two sets of Japanese wooden dolls. My haggling skills are getting much better - I no longer feel bad because I've seen other people doing it too! I also tried a coconut which tasted quite different from the Fiji one. It looked different too because it was all shaven and fit into my hand quite nicely.
Dinner was at a very dodgy looking roadside restaurant. It consisted of chilli crab (very very small crab), beef noodles and snail. Yes, snail. Anthony insisted. And he ate the whole plate too. I've noticed restaurants are very competitive here where they hire people to hand out flyers on the streets close to dinner time. The restaurant staff are almost aggressive in trying to get you in. I paused briefly to glance at the menu board infront of a restaurant and was promptly mobbed by two staff members!
Ant bought an ipad2 from an electronic shop on the way back to the Hotel. We spent about 30minutes in that shop while he ensured he wasn't being swindled. Good thing he is so thorough.
I've worked up an appetite by doing our laundry in the bathroom cubicle. Packing 3 t shirts and 3 pairs of shorts sounded like a good idea to allow for more shopping. But when you consider it's a 9 night trip in incredibly humid weather, 3 t shirts and 3 pairs of shorts means you're constantly having to wash them. What was Ant doing the whole time? Playing with his new toy of course!
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