Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park Travel Notes

Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park is close to Pudong Airport, making it suitable for self-driving. The experience here is even better than in the city center. Standing in the front row of the Orca Theater, as the salty spray hits your face, you can truly feel the breath of the ocean. The Orca Theater at Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park is always full of surprises—a seven-ton "ocean overlord" suddenly leaps from the blue waves, its tail fin creating a silver curtain of water, drenching the audience in the front row. Yet, in the next second, it rubs its round head against the glass, interacting with the children, eliciting laughter and the clicking of shutters throughout the theater. In the Coral Jellyfish Palace, thousands of luminous jellyfish stretch their tentacles in the darkness, resembling nebulae floating in space, turning every visitor into a child gazing up at the Milky Way. As night falls, the mecha parade arrives, illuminated by neon lights. The mecha white tiger and mermaid formations meet on Guangxian Street. Standing in front of the 30-meter-long viewing window of the Whale Shark Pavilion, watching the elegant shadows of manta rays glide over the coral reefs, you suddenly understand: humanity's yearning for the ocean is already etched in our genes. Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park is a truly great alternative near Disneyland.