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Hong Kong Heritage Museum






Motion Simulator, The Restaurant Marche Movenpick, and the famous wax museum of London, Madame Tussaud's.

    For more than 80 years, Ripley's Believe It Or Not! has been the world's foremost source of the extraordinary and the bizarre.  Here, there are more than 450 exhibits from 198 countries.  Open daily from 9:00 am to 10:00 p.m. regular admission fee is HK$65 (adult) and HK$46 (child)
    You can enjoy a journey into a different time and place in the Peak Explorer - Motion Simulator.  It is an exciting motion ride and takes you for a trip beyond your imagination to new and wild frontiers.  The individual seating allows full axis of movement so you can stop your seat without disturbing other viewers.  Open daily from 9:00 am to 10:00 p.m. on Level 4 of the Peak Towers, regular admission HK$45 (adult) and HK$32 (child).
    Located at the top of the Peak Tower with the best views of Hong Kong, Restaurant Marche Movenpick offers a wide variety of Asian and western food and drinks. It is open year-round from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm on Levels 6 and 7.  The buffet includes: salads, an Asian counter, a sushi bar, Italian pasta, a grill and sweet delights (cakes, mousses, crepes and Movenpick Ice Cream) with coffee or tea. 
    The world famous Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition from London, now a permanent attraction set-up in Hong Kong, has amazed and delighted visitors with incredible realistic wax portraits of the famous for well over 200 years.  Located on The Peak, Madame Tussaud's contains portraits from the worlds of music, film, fashion, politics and even royalty, where you can get up close and personal and be photographed with them.  For more information, click:
www.madame-tussauds.com.
    Hong Kong's South China Sea Cruise, the Star Pisces, is the leading cruise line in Asia-Pacific, offering five-star accommodations, facilities and service.  For a short escapade you can enjoy a two-day/one-night international cruise that departs daily. Recreation and entertainment include a swimming pool, spa, jogging track, sauna, health club, beauty salon, disco cinema, karaoke and a showroom featuring world class music and dance performances.

    Super Star Leo is the largest and the first world-class mega-ship in Asia-Pacific. This floating resort lets you experience a whole new world while cruising to exotic destinations, while partaking of its many facilities and programs, ranging from state-of-the-art health and fitness facilities to after-dark excitement.  Or you can just sit back and relax while you enjoy the beautiful sights of China.  Two-night/three day through five-night/six-day cruises are available from April to September 2001.  For prices and information: www.starcruises.com.

  A glimpse of some of Hong Kong's museums follows.  A free bus shuttles between the museums.  A weekly pass for the museums is  HK$60

    The Hong Kong Heritage Museum is house in a five story building at 1 Man Lam Road, Sha Tin.  It is built around open courtyards, giving it the look of a Chinese Palace. The museum has almost 70,000 items, mostly Cantonese Opera objects and New Territories relics, along with other works of art.  The Hong Kong Heritage Museum houses 12 exhibition galleries, including six permanent galleries and a gallery specially designed for children. There are films of famous Chinese Operas depicting costumes, parades and events throughout the year, and one documenting the British transfer of Hong Kong to China at the end of 2000.

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