2010年12月5日星期日

3:30 p.m. 4th Destination : Noah's Ark Hong Kong

After a comfortable boat ride, we get to Park Island, which is a low density private housing estate in Ma Wan.It is surrounded by the beautiful scenery and the most remarkable point is the 180° Tsing Ma Bridge view. The housing estate is surrounded by Ma Wan Park and Tong Wan, which is the largest public beach in Ma Wan.


Walking through these beautiful views bring us to the next highlight of the tour, Noah’s Ark Hong Kong. It is estimated that we will arrive around 3:30p.m.


Noah’s Ark Hong Kong is a new theme park opened in 2008 with two main components, the Noah’s Ark and the Noah’s Resort. The Noah's Ark is a 1 to 1 ark model built according to the information in the bible and the Noah's resort provides both 5-star hotel and 3-star hostel services. 



As mentioned in the beginning of our presentation, our tour has some religious component. Noah’s Ark is the best place to introduce foreigners about Christianity in Hong Kong. There are 8 exhibition halls in the park and all are equipped with fascinating multimedia resources, which are very appealing. In our tour, we will visit 5 out of the 8 exhibition halls, Ark Expo, Ark Garden, Ark Expo Hall C, Ark Expo Hall B and 2-Head Castle. The entrance fee of these halls has been included in the tour fee.
 

First Attraction : Ark Expo Hall C

We will first visit the Ark Expo Hall C, which also called (神舟聖殿) in Chinese. There are 4 main displays in this hall. 


The first one is an animated film titled ‘The Legend: The Story of Moses’. The film is being played on a panoramic screen together with 3 special items that exist in Israel’s Tabernacle, the Ark of Covenant, Golden Lamp Stand and Table of Showbread. 




The second display is a 3-screen 3D animation called ‘Light of the World’, which is about the story of Jesus Christ. The interesting but sometimes chilling story gives our tourists an amazing visual experience. The third displays in Hall C are the bibles found to be a present received by Empress Cixi and read by Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty and other bibles from Victoria Era. 



Tourist can also pay (50HKD) and try to use a hand-driving printing machine, which have only 7 of them left in the world.  



 

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You can receive a piece of bible printed yourself and a wooden container as souvenir.


Second Attraction : Ark Expo Hall B



Our second destination will be the Ark Expo Hall B, which is also called the Ark Theater. It is a multifunctional hall showing a 3D animation ‘Living Water’ about the story of Jesus Christ. The animation are made by Hong  Kong artists and tourist can understand more on how how local people interpret bible stories. 


 Third Attraction : Ark Expo

The third destination is Ark Expo. It has a 4D theater that you can experience a 180 degree of great flood rushing towards you, which is an extraordinary multimedia experience showing the well-known Noah’s Ark story. Beside the theater, there are some special animal displayed that participants are able to know more about the  and the beauty power of our nature and the challenges the Earth is facing.




 Fourth Attraction : Ark Garden
 
The forth destination is the Ark Garden. It is a beautiful garden that you can relax yourself.  You can also see a lot of hand-crafted sculptures of animals walking out of the Noah’s Ark, which is a scene in bible about the retreating of flood and starting of new lives. There are endangered and rare animals among the sculptures that you can take this chance to take photos and have close contact with them. 



 Final Attraction : 2-Head Castle

Our last destination in Noah’s Ark is the 2-Head Castle. It has display on some astonishing and precious animals, like turtles with two heads, single-eyed goldfish and albino snake collected from all around the world. The survival rate of these animals is extremely low, so they are really rare and need to be protected. There are also games on the theme of 2 head animals and cooperation for children to learn about the difficulties of these animals.


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