Manila Ocean Park's Fish Spa! my favorite activity at the Oceanarium :) i sooo love it! The moment your feet touch water the fish immediately swarm your feet and start nibbling LOL and it is ticklish at first but it is so relaxing. yep my dear Chuva, you should try this fish spa, told you i'll check out and look for this gararuffa thingy when i read your post! :D
I really really love this Doctor Fish or Nibble Fish at the fish spa. According to the posters at the Fish Spa, this fish species are found in the river basins of China, Turkey, and the Middle East. Back in 1917, an unknown shepherd dipped his wounded leg into the water with these little fish measuring a little less than four inches and nibbled off the dead skin from the wound, and miraculously the wound healed!
The Manila Ocean Park's glass bottom boat ride. a small boat with a glass bottom to see the acquarium/ocenarium below with a guide . a short trip on the small lake/lagoon is 150 pesos per person. check out the boat Manila Ocean Park christmas promo for discounts.
a look below the glass bottom, according to the guide this particular fish is aggressive and is not afraid of people, and is excited for food, soo excited that one of their divers almost lost a finger during feeding time =)
a different kind of fish specie! LOL! they are the visitors, at the buhay na karagatan of the oceanarium seen from above.
Manila Ocena Park is fun but you tend to get hungry after a while, and its too bad you cant munch while you're walking nside, yep food is not allowed inside the Manila Ocean park but they do have restaurant and some snack bar where you have your fill.
Oceano fusion restaurant have an "eat all you can" lunch/dinner set up priced at 595 for adults and 295 for kids. The food, especially the dessert looks good but since I visited the park with kids who are impatient and who are picky with food trying the buffet is not a sound idea so we ordered a'la carte.
The Manila Ocean park activity center is located at the second floor. at the center is this huge shark like table wherein kids and young at heart can drwa or trace some images using paper and crayons, but you have to pay 20 pesos for 2 pieces of A3 sized paper but its ok and it was fun actually :)
from there you could also have an access to the shark viewing area and sting rays as well. There is also the fish spa (i'll blog about this soon, my favorite activity at the park actually hehehehe) and also the entrance to the boat ride is from here as well.
there is a panoramic view of the manila bay, which im pretty sure is awesome at sunset. maybe next time i visit, i'll wait for the sunset here.
Yesterday i posted about these christmas trees made of recycled newspapers, here are some of the entries, also some detailed photos of the other entries, i am telling you those guys are really really creative.
I was out shopping today and found intereseting christmas trees lined up at The Block in SM North EDSA, and they are not your ordinary christmas trees - they are recycled, made of old newspapers (Manila Bulletin to be exact, i guess they held a christmas tree making contest) and this is the grand winner.
No doubt that this christmas tree should get the first prize, if you look closer at the tree itself you would know how detailed it is and wonder how long it took the maker to finish this tree. I tried finding stuff or information about the said contest but cant find one and seems manila bulletin's website is down as well. Anyways congratualtions to whoever created this piece. And to my readers who woill be visiting SM North EDSA, go visit the Block and check out those cool trees out there.
Christmas and Simbang Gabi is almost synonymous with Bibingka, for Filipinos it's like christmas isnt the same if you dont see bibingka vendors outside the church, or at least eat one after simbang gabi.
Once cooked you just spread the top a bit of margarine and sprinkle some sugar. Special bibingka would also have cheese and itlog na maalat. Yummy!
Bibingka is usually served with niyog or grated coconut on top and best eaten with tsaa or tea as beverage. Enjoy your bibingka!!!
Simbang Gabi at the Manila Cathedral
The changing of times does not break the preservation of celebrating Simbang Gabi although it is celebrated in new ways. Still, the tradition of Simbang Gabi continues. Part of it are the colorful lights and lanterns that fill every streets. Beautiful parols are hung in every window. Songs of the season are played everywhere to warm the hearts. Families, friends and even individuals find its way going to the nearest church to attend the nine-day novena. Shortly after the misa de gallo, families gather in their homes to celebrate Noche Buena and feasted on various delicacies like queso de bola, bibingka, puto bungbong, or a drink of salabat or hot chocolate.
This is the view from the shark viewing area at the Manila Ocean park second floor activity area.
Manila Ocean Park - Pagi (Sting Ray) - variety of rays fly over while you're under this unique Overhang Tank.
Yeah we were lucky to see fish feeding time at the Manila Ocean Park when we visited the oceanarium. Oh no this diver in the photo is not the fish meal hehehe
The diver was carrying a net bag full of dead galunggong fish for the fish lunch time. The schedule of fish feeding at the Manila Ocean Park is every 11 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. So if you're planning to visit make and see fish feeding visit the Manila Ocean Park at the above stated time.
it was fun and scary to watch the diver feed the fishes. all the sting rays, big and small fishes immediately swarmed him, the sting rays even spooned the diver! LOL and it was fun to see the sting rays being hand fed, yep the diver literally feed the sting rays like a baby :)
and even the shark gets to close to the diver, but we're told that this shark is not dangerous at all :)
Manila Ocean Park - Buhay na Karagatan (Living Ocean)
its really fun inside the tunnel, you'll be really wowed and get amazed at these wonderful sea creatures and feels like you're walking under the ocean.
its great to watch the big shark and sting rays swim by over your head but its kinda frustrating to capture them in pictures! they swim so fast and i was like can you please stop by and have your photo taken LOL
sharks smile still imprinted in my mind :)
Manila Ocean Park - Laot (Fishing Ground) – features big fish in four big long tanks.
Manila Ocean Park - Bahura(Reef)
can remeber what this rock looking fish is called but the yellow one at the blue wall is the frog fish, notice its "frog feet" clasping the blue wall?
the tiny sea horse, when i was a kid i used to believe that se horses are big and that you can ride them hehehe
giant crab fish, it is so big... it's body size is big as big as a human head
whitespotted bambooshark eggs
cow fish
sting rays
... and i found nemo!!!
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