Ocean Park
Hillside theme park and marine attraction overlooking Aberdeen harbour, home to giant pandas and a cable car.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ocean Park in Hong Kong follows two giant pandas, Jia Jia and An An, who arrived in 1999 as gifts marking the handover's second anniversary, and traces how Jia Jia went on to outlive nearly every panda on record. You'll hear how the park itself kept surviving its own near-misses, from the SARS outbreak in 2003 to a pandemic closure in 2020 that brought in a government rescue package. Listen for how a cliffside park above Aberdeen harbour built a reputation on refusing to fold.
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