Places To Go To...

For the past two months in Hong Kong, I've gone to:

• Macau
• Ocean Park
• Hong Kong Park
• Tai O

MACAU

On 9/14, I went to Macau with Beldon and his friends from Chinese University to do the Macau Bungee Jump. The experience was AWESOME! Since we were walk-ins to do the jump, we had to wait 2 hours to finally get to do the jump off the Macau Tower. This is currently the world's highest bungee jump where you jump off the 61st floor! The cost was 2,688 HKD and you get a t-shirt as a memoir that you did the jump. The first few seconds when you're in free fall was the best part!
Afterwards, we had dinner at a Portuguese Restaurant (which is always recommended to eat when you're in Macau). To finish off that day, we walked around the Venetian Hotel, Galaxy Hotel and checked out the casinos.

Ocean Park

On 9/15 and 10/19, I went to Hong Kong's Ocean Park! This is like a mixture of Hawaii's Sea Life Park combined with a huge Amusement Park. In Hong Kong, Ocean Park is a must-go at least one time. For the first time going, we went on all the rides we thought would be fun; and then we went through some of the aquariums and dolphin shows. For the second time, Ocean Park was Halloween-themed and had a lot of Haunted Houses to check out.

Tips:

• Go early, because the waiting time in lines get crazy if you go later in the day. The hours of Ocean Park are 10am-10pm, so we went once the gates opened.
• Do the rides you want first! Because the queue times will start increasing from 30 minutes to sometimes 1 hour. Then you can check out the aquariums
• Buy water before going onto the bus towards Ocean Park because food and drinks inside are expensive.
• Catch the cable car up! The view is nice!
• Bring a towel because you may get wet from some of the rides.
• If possible, GO ON WEEKDAYS because the weekends are usually very crowded!
• If you are going on exchange for a year or if you plan to go Ocean park multiple times, get the annual pass because each time you go is 320 HKD.

Hong Kong Park

On 10/13, we went to Hong Kong Park. This is a good place to visit on one of those lazy days where you don't want to do anything too intense and want to just relax. I loved this spot because it was a small, quiet park within a busy city area. You will see buildings and skyscrapers surrounding this nice park. In this park, there is also an atrium to see birds.

Tai O Hike

On 10/20, I went with some friends from City University to Tai O. We left early at 10am that morning and took the MTR to the Tung Chung Station and caught a bus to Tai O. From there, we hiked a trail towards Man Cheung Po. This hike was very long and tiring, but the view from the top was very nice!