Essentially a marine park, the Ocean Park in Hong Kong is a home to spectacular species of sea fishes including sharks, dolphins and jellyfishes. Hong Kong's Ocean Park very often hosts a number of dolphin shows every day for the entertainment of tourists visiting the Amusement Park . Moreover, the exhibition of jellyfish also received accolades from the local press that wrote a surpassingly good review about the Ocean Park and its regular marine-life shows.
The Ocean Park of Hong Kong can be easily accessed by means of a taxi or a city bus. Furthermore, the scattered parts of the Park are linked with the help of a system of gondola lifts as well as with an escalator that is registered to be the second longest outdoor escalator in the world. Apart from the already mentioned displays of the Ocean Park , the other major attractions within the Ocean Park are:
- Rides like the dragon roller coaster ride, abyss turbo drop, flying swing, crazy galleon,ferris wheel and headland games.
- Adventure Land with mine train, ranging river,Ocean Park escalator
- Marine Land includes Pacific pier, atoll reef, shark aquarium, Ocean theater, Ocean Park tower, sea jelly spectacular
- Lowland Gardens comprising Hong Kong jockey club giant panda habitat, sky fair, amazing amazon, bird show,caverns of darkness 3D, cable car, grand prix
- Kid's world
- Bird sanctuary
Ocean Park also controls the observatories, laboratories, educational department and whale and dolphin fund. In addition, Ocean Park was the first ever institution to have successfully processed the artificial insemination of a bottle nosed dolphin and has also introduced various new species of goldfishes. Today, this Amusement Ocean Park is considered to be one the most interesting places of tourist attraction in Hong Kong
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