Busan Aquarium

Welcome to part 2 of my amazing Busan trip! This post is all about the amazing aquarium that we were able to visit at Haeundae Beach in Busan!

I can’t remember the last time that I went to an aquarium, so this was really enjoyable for me, but also a bit scary. I’ve seen so many horror movies that deal with the ocean, and it has instilled a fear of the ocean in me 😅 Standing on top of glass (or maybe thick plastic) with a pool of sharks below you is scary! Walking through a tunnel in the middle of a pool of sharks is also scary! The sharks here looked creepy too, although my aunt said that they’re not that mean.

All of the creatures were very beautiful though, and even though the sharks were creepy, they were cool. We saw so many different fish, and we even saw penguins! Penguins are my favorite animal, and I was very excited when I found out that this aquarium had them. They also had a very cool virtual reality “game” located outside the penguin tank. If you stand on a certain spot on the ground, a penguin will appear on a projected screen in front of you. Then, whatever you do, the penguin does! My aunt and Ms. Rebecca were dancing with the penguins 😂

They had these really beautiful sting rays everywhere; several tanks were dedicated to them. There were very small black ones with white spots that were my favorite. The other sting rays were larger and a tan color with faint spots. They also had very large manta rays in a tank with the sharks.

At first we didn’t notice, but there were turtles in the shark tank as well! They were huge!!! They were really lazy too 😅 They just laid on top of the tunnel.

Now on to the creepy sharks! My aunt said that they are Sand Tiger Sharks. They have really pointy faces with very jagged, protruding teeth (which is why they look so scary). We attended a shark feeding, but it wasn’t as “frenzy-like” as I had hoped. 3 divers entered the tank and one by one handed each shark a fish. Yep. That was the feeding. Very uneventful. However, before the show started, the announcer zoomed around the room with a camera, embarrassing children and couples. They asked the children to dance and the couples to kiss, and they were met with many no’s 😂

There was also a really pretty shark in a tank of it’s own with other fish. It was small and had a flowy tail. It was really cool!

There was a large portion of a hallway dedicated to jellyfish, and it was gorgeous. Each tank had color-changing lights inside it, and so the jellyfish appeared to be glowing different colors. It was so beautiful! I think that jellyfish are really cool, despite being so dangerous.

After we had finished touring the aquarium, we left, but not before I bought an adorable whale stuffed animal. I love stuffed animals and he was so precious. I had to. You can see me holding him in the Haeundae Beach picture that I posted at the beginning. He has since been named Buddy.

And that’s it for the aquarium! I’ll be back later this week with the details on the rest of my Busan trip!