Dalian Sun Asia Ocean World, illuminating a great time for family outings
📍Attraction Introduction: Sun Asia Ocean World is part of Dalian Sun Asia Ocean Park, located on the west side of Xinghai Square in Dalian, Liaoning Province, within Xinghai Park, adjacent to the yacht marina. It includes four main pavilions: Sun Asia Ocean World, Sun Asia Polar World, Sun Asia Deep Sea Legend, and Sun Asia Coral World, covering an area of over 50,000 square meters. This aquarium is an underwater tunnel-style aquarium built with an investment of nearly 100 million RMB from mainland China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.
🚗Transportation:
Subway: Get off at Dalian Medical University Second Hospital Station on Line 1 and walk 100 meters.
Bus: Take routes 16, 22, 23, 28, 37, 202, 406, 531, or 901 to the Medical University Second Hospital Station; take route 49 to the Sun Asia Ocean World Station.
Dalian North Station Route: Take Line 1 of the Dalian Metro directly to the Medical University Second Hospital Station.
Dalian Railway Station Route: Take route 531 to the Medical University Second Hospital Station, and Sun Asia Ocean World is right across the street. It is recommended to walk 200 meters to the bus stop on the west side of Youhao Square and take routes 16, 23, or 901. (Taxi ride takes about 10 minutes, costing around 19 RMB)
Dalian Airport, Haizhiyun Route: Take Line 2 of the Dalian Metro to Xian Road Station, transfer to Line 1 within the station, and get off at the Medical University Second Hospital Station.
👍️Must-visit Attractions:
🐟Aquarium: Featuring a 118-meter underwater transparent tunnel that takes you into a panoramic underwater world. Ride the slowly moving underwater train (horizontal walkway) and immerse yourself in the transparent arched tunnel, surrounded by the magical and mysterious underwater scenery. With over 300 species and more than 10,000 rare fish from around the world, fierce sharks, large rays, colorful tropical fish, and various fish schools changing formations, it showcases a beautiful and dreamy underwater world. Modern aquariums generally use tunnel displays for optimal viewing angles, and Dalian Sun Asia Ocean World boasts a 118-meter underwater tunnel. The arched transparent tunnel is made of acrylic material, 6 cm thick, with high pressure resistance, high strength, and the ability to bend and deform. The production and bending were completed in Germany and New Zealand, and the formed panels were transported to Sun Asia's construction site for installation, with a comprehensive cost of 20,000 USD per meter. The tunnel-style aquarium creates a space for humans underwater, making underwater walking possible. Sun Asia Ocean World focuses on providing marine life and underwater scenery viewing, opening a path to the seabed for the world, using rich display methods and vivid aquatic environment landscaping to recreate the beauty and mystery of the seabed, allowing people to truly get close to the ocean and understand and care about it. While displaying aquatic life, it also leaves space for people to think and associate about the relationship between marine ecology and human development.
🐬"Dolphin Bay Love" Show - One of Sun Asia's "Three Major Shows," featuring dolphins, belugas, mermaids, princes, pirates, and moonlight angels, with a dramatic and romantic style. Performance location: Fantasy Dolphin Bay. Performance duration: about 20 minutes (interactive clown performance 10 minutes before the show during peak season).
🐟Polar Pavilion: Mainly showcasing marine animals, with year-round dolphin, beluga, and shark performances. Opened to visitors in June 1995, it is an underwater tunnel-style aquarium with a 118-meter underwater tunnel, pioneering the construction of China's third-generation aquariums. In July 2005, Sun Asia Ocean World was revamped, organically integrating the aquarium with the theme park model, allowing visitors to complete a "fantasy journey from land to the seabed and back to the sea" as if they were characters in a marine drama, making Sun Asia Ocean World a scenic marine theme park.
🐳"Beluga Legend" Show - One of Sun Asia's "Three Major Shows," added in 2011, with a performance area 16.8 meters long, 6.6 meters wide, and 6 meters deep. Visitors can watch the performance through specially designed acrylic glass walls. The entire performance is underwater, starring belugas. Location: Beluga Underwater Performance Hall (open performance hall, visitors can watch belugas swimming through the glass windows when there is no performance). Duration: about 10 minutes.
🪸Coral World: A purely display pavilion themed around corals, with no animal performances. It gathers over a hundred types and more than a thousand coral reef biological groups from around the world, using live coral maintenance technology and various modern technological methods to vividly recreate the coral ecosystem in the ocean. Additionally, there are thousands of rare fish and dozens of rare shellfish, creating a mysterious and magnificent underwater garden. Time: about 0.5 hours.
🐟Deep Sea Legend: A new tourism project relying on high-tech multimedia, forming the core area of Sun Asia with Sun Asia Ocean World, Sun Asia Polar World, and Sun Asia Coral World. Opened to the public in May 2012, it is themed around deep-sea exploration, using top-notch multimedia technology combined with micro-electromechanical systems, interactive sound, light, and electrical simulations to create a mysterious and thrilling "Deep Sea Experience Zone" and a magnificent "Sky Screen Theater Zone," making it the most magical and thrilling deep-sea experience journey in history!
💗Other Tips: The sea-viewing platform is located on the second floor, offering an excellent view of the sea, with wooden tables and chairs for visitors to rest. The dining area offers a variety of beverages such as mineral water, coffee, juice, and ice cream, with a wide range of snacks: grilled squid, lamb skewers, grilled sausages, bone-in meat, chicken fillets, takoyaki, oden, boiled corn, egg tarts, hamburgers, popcorn, etc., with prices ranging from 3 to 15 RMB.