a DEEPER experience

love the sea and the marine creatures?




then visit the manila ocean park's oceanarium... quite impressive! adults and kids especially will enjoy the huge aquariums and enormous marine species.

going there wasn't originally in our plan as we celebrated ronald's birthday last saturday but at the last minute we decided to go anyway...after we had lunch out, and had gone to pet shops to buy stuffs for DACKI...we headed to roxas blvd.

if you've seen the long queue last saturday...you might have backed out! but in fairness mabilis lang ang movement ng lines...may express line pa when buying your tickets. there's also a separate line for manila residents and senior citizens because they both get to purchase the tickets at discounted rates.

but when we got inside...horrendous crowd! the first part of the tour which is the rainforest is ideal for daytime viewing only, at night you can't enjoy it and you have to be careful going up the stairs because it's poorly lit! as we proceeded with the tour, you couldn't hear a thing from the voice narration. and worse, it was getting hotter and hotter because of too many people! the temperature just got better upon reaching the bigger area in the middle of the tour...pero crowded pa rin! so ang tip don't go there on a weekend, at mas konti siguro tao early in the day. we were there around 7pm. they're open from 9am to 9pm, but their cut-off in admitting visitors is up to 8:15 pm only.

as you've seen on tv, there's a beautiful and long tunnel, but because of the crowd, we couldn't enjoy as much... still, that didn't deter us from squeezing in ourselves for some photos...

(L) a lion fish up close...(R) sting ray right behind us

(L) raph thought of this pose.... (R) my boys were both in awe

what's important is... raphael enjoyed his first ocean adventure, a deeper experience for him indeed. we weren't able to bring him to ocean park when we went to HK and we haven't been yet to ocean adventure in singapore.

and looks like the birthday boy had fun too! look at the pic below! my boys--they're just soo funny!

oh by the way, strictly no pets allowed, so ate josie and yaya jessa had to stay outside to take care of dacki...buti na lang, there was a concert at the open area down the entrance so they had fun as well!

(ps: jilm thanks for the beautiful photos)