Travel with YeinJee

Disney on Parade, Hong Kong Disneyland

YeinJee — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:00:52 +0000

Disney on Parade is a daytime parade of the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park, featuring old and new cartoon characters like Mickey, Donald, Snow White, Cinderella, Alice (in Wonderland), The Little Mermaid, Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story etc.

Come join Disney on Parade

This has to be one of the ugliest Mickey’s replica I’ve ever seen

Alice in Wonderland

Donald and Daisy having fun (left)… I suspect both of them are guys though

The final float, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and all the princesses

Disney on Parade, Hong Kong Disneyland

Disney Halloween, Hong Kong

YeinJee — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:30:19 +0000

October, the Halloween month… Disneyland was decorated with all the ‘creepy’ stuff as well…

Halloween Decor at the entrance of Hong Kong Disneyland

Donald joined in the fun too with his Halloween costume…

More Halloween decor inside the theme park

Glow in the Park Halloween Parade… with ‘scary’ music and sounds

Disney Halloween, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Disneyland

YeinJee — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:00:24 +0000

Hong Kong Disneyland is located on a reclaimed land in Lantau Island and opened to visitors since September 2005. The theme park is part of Disneyland Resort which also consist of 2 hotels and the Inspiration Lake Recreation Centre.

Disneyland was the highlight of our Hong Kong tour. My eldest sister was the only one who had visited a Disney theme park (Tokyo’s Disneyland) prior to this visit, so it should be a wonderful experience especially for my 2-year-old niece.

The theme park opened on 10am; we got there a bit earlier via a shuttle bus from Hollywood Hotel, which is just minutes away from the theme park.

Welcome to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort

Mickey and Minnie’s fountain before the theme park entrance

Based on my eldest sister’s experience, we went straight to the Fantasyland to take pictures with the cartoon characters - Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Winnie the Pooh etc. It could take some time to take photos with these characters if the crowd started to pour in… so it should be a good idea to get to Fantasyland as early as possible.

The Sleeping Beauty Castle, entrance of the Fantasyland

Adventure with Winnie the Pooh (kinda boring though…)

There are some (short) musical shows that are worth watching in Disneyland; we went to “The Golden Mickeys” and “Festival of the Lion King”, and both of the shows were good.

Golden Mickeys was a show mimicking the Oscar awards and introduced the cartoon characters (and films) such as the iconic Mickey, Minnie, Donald and characters from later stories like “The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Mulan” and “Lilo and Stitch” etc.

The Festival of the Lion King was a brief story based on 1994 animated movie, “The Lion King”.

The Golden Mickeys

Festival of the Lion King

The Tomorrowland… we didn’t spend much time there

Other highlights of Hong Kong Disneyland include the Disney on Parade in the afternoon and the fireworks show at night.

Merry-go-round at Fantasyland

Hong Kong Disneyland

Disney’s Hollywood Hotel, Hong Kong

YeinJee — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:56:16 +0000

Disney’s Hollywood Hotel is one of two hotels at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (another is Disneyland Hotel which was a bit classier).

We checked in to the Hollywood Hotel around 5pm. The room was much larger than the hotel we stayed in Kowloon and was decorated with some Mickey figures here and there…

Welcome to Disney’s Hollywood Hotel

They do expect us to bring these home ain’t so?

View from a rest area on our hotel floor - the hotel had a decent park and swimming pool

Disney’s Hollywood Hotel, Hong Kong

Fuwa - Beijing Olympic mascot in Hong Kong

YeinJee — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:30:10 +0000

These are lanterns of Huanhuan (欢欢), one of the five Fuwa (福娃), mascots for Beijing Olympic 2008. Saw these just beside the Clock Tower; the lanterns were part of a lantern show in conjunction with Chinese Autumn Festival.

Huanhuan is designed to resemble the Olympic Torch…

Fuwa - Beijing Olympic mascot in Hong Kong

The Flying Frenchman, Hong Kong

YeinJee — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:00:05 +0000

The Flying Frenchman is a sculpture created by the late French sculptor César Baldaccini. The monument is located at Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, nearby the Clock Tower. It was donated by the Cartier Foundation to Hong Kong in April 1992.

The Flying Frenchman, by César

I am not an art enthusiast; I can’t really understand what the sculpture is trying to portray. It was pretty catchy though.

The Flying Frenchman, Hong Kong

Avenue of Stars, Hong Kong

YeinJee — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:30:45 +0000

Avenue of Stars (星光大道) is located along the Victoria Harbour waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui. The avenue is Hong Kong version of Hollywood Walk of Fame… honouring celebrities that have contributed to Hong Kong film industry over the years.

I am not really fond of checking the hand prints of celebrities. For me, Avenue of Stars is simply a great place to see Hong Kong Island across the sea.

Avenue of Stars

Bruce Lee statue

Hong Kong Island across the Victoria Harbour; I wonder what’s the boat doing there

Avenue of Stars, Hong Kong

Dry seafood, Hong Kong

YeinJee — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:00:47 +0000

Dry seafood is commonly used in Chinese dishes; and Hong Kong has plenty of places selling this stuff. Besides a few markets that cater specifically for the dried seafood; we can find these things in some Chinese medicine shops as well.

A Chinese medicine shop in Kowloon, selling dry seafoods like dry abalone, shrimps etc.

Dry seafood, Hong Kong