台北 Day 4 (6th July 2012)

Farglory Ocean Theme Park

I got Rachel, who is the owner of the Sunrise BB, to help book the tickets to the ocean theme park cos I worried the tickets might get sold out that day, & I realised she got us a very good deal - 2 tickets to day tour (8am-5pm) of the theme park  + standard double room 1 night costs us only NTD1700 (SGD74). A full day pass to the theme park would have cost us NTD890 (SGD39). Rachel also got us free transfer to-fro the theme park. I loveeeee Taiwan & its people.

Anyway, it was really hot in Taiwan then and even now. The temperature went up as high as 38 deg cel, but it wasn't as humid like in Singapore, so it was still bearable.

We went to the first show and it showcased manatee (海牛). They have the shape of walrus, and weighs 250kg. They are mammals, but they live in the water, and spend half of the time sleeping in the water. Manatee don't have gills to help them breathe, they just go to the water surface for air for just 3 seconds! and it can last them for 20 minutes in the water. 

 

Giant squids. They looked stoked when they saw us! Swimming and floating around so happily.

 

 

Onboard the cable car. The scenery was really so beautiful I was in awe and am so touched. 

 

Cute dolphins, you don't say! I know dolphins are really intelligent mammals, performing all those stunts, but I didn't know they can crack simple mathematical equations too - like with all the mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), and numbers in the range 0 to 9. Like they got some kiddos from the audience to set questions, like what is 3X3, they would flapped their tails 9 times in the water to indicate their answer!

All the cute plushies! And the weather went a bit unbearable in the afternoon so we stayed inside to la liang with the air-con!

Water bumper rides! We felt like kids playing with the kids. Lol. But they had those scary rides too - like Viking ( i hate viking), and the big water slides! which we took as the last ride. They had a total of 3 slides, of which 1 slides down backwards. So scary but funnnn!

The last show we caught was to see the super star sealion 大雄! He was so funny when he hid his head down when the guy mentioned he was 200+kg and has no girlfriend!

We left at 5pm, and headed back to our BB and night market for dinner! Love Hualien, the sea creatures and my melmel :D