Daily 10am-6pm. $185, under-11s $93 includes all rides and entry. Bus #629 from the Star Ferry Pier, Central.

Filling a whole peninsula, Ocean Park is an open-air theme park and oceanarium; it also features a pair of giant pandas, for whom a special $80 million, two-thousand-squaremetre complex has been created.

The first section, the Lowland area, is a landscaped garden with greenhouses, a butterfly house, a 3D-fi lm simulator and a dinosaur discovery trail, with full-sized moving models. A cable-car hoists you from here 1.5km up the mountainside to the Headland section and its frightening “Dragon Roller-Coaster”, and the self-explanatory “Abyss Turbo Drop”. There’s also one of the world’s largest reef aquariums, with a massive atoll reef that’s home to more than two thousand fish, including giant rays and sharks. Looming over the lot is the Ocean Park Tower, 200m above sea level, giving superb vistas from its viewing platform and panoramic elevator. The Tai Shue Wan area below gives access to Middle Kingdom, a Chinese theme park with pagodas, traditional crafts and entertainment such as Chinese opera.