Ngong Ping 360 Ushers in Year of the Horse with "Double The Ride" Offer and Adorable Horse Installations

As the Year of the Horse approaches, Ngong Ping 360 is taking the lead to bring New Year blessings to Ngong Ping Village, wishing everyone great fortune in the Year of the Horse! From 24 January to 8 March, "Year of the Horse Celebration at Ngong Ping 360" will bring blessing-filled, adorable horse photo spots throughout Ngong Ping Village, including large horse installations gathering good fortune at the Stupa Square and a fortune wheel, collecting auspicious energy to kick off a prosperous year! Renowned Feng Shui Master Mak Ling Ling has specially participated in designing this year's installations and will distribute lucky charms and chocolate coins to guests on 21 February at Ngong Ping Village, offering New Year blessings - a rare opportunity not to be missed!

"Year of the Horse Celebration at Ngong Ping 360" will bring blessing-filled, adorable horse photo spots throughout Ngong Ping Village. Photo source: Ngong Ping 360

Ngong Ping 360 has also prepared a special "Double The Ride” offer for guests! During the promotion period, guests can enjoy two round-trip cable car rides (Standard Cabin) by March for the price of one, allowing them to participate in different festive activities with family and friends at a more favorable price. Guests who enjoy the "Double The Ride" offer will also receive lucky charms or Year of the Horse ornaments, available for redemption at Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal on-site, while supplies last!

The renowned Feng Shui Master Mak Ling Ling, Photo source: Ngong Ping 360

Adorable Horses Bring "Five Blessings" for the New Year

Fortune Wheel Spins Luck, Health, and Wealth

The large-scale thematic installation "Golden Steed Welcomes the Chinese New Year" will be located at the Stupa Square of Ngong Ping Village. The five horses on the installation will all be adorned in Chinese New Year styles, symbolizing "Five Blessings" - good fortune, prosperity, health, longevity and happiness. Three horses that sit on the installation will deliver New Year blessing messages, while a small horse hides in another horse's mane. Don't forget to look up and greet the inflatable horse standing on top of the installation to receive blessings from above!

Renowned Feng Shui Master Mak Ling Ling says that horses symbolize progress, success and strength, while the elevated platform design at the center of the installation aligns with the New Year's theme of "rising step by step". The designs allow the horses' energy to radiate in all directions, attracting popularity and wealth!

The "Success at the Gallop" Fortune Wheel Photo Spot, Photo source: Ngong Ping 360

Besides, Ngong Ping Village will feature two Chinese New Year blessing photo spots. The "Success at the Gallop" Fortune Wheel Photo Spot located next to the Village archway is decorated with peach blossoms, fortune sticks and gold ingots, symbolizing luck, health, and wealth. Guests can spin the fortune wheel in the middle to receive blessings in wealth, career and love, multiplying their good fortune.

At the "Golden Lucky Bag Celebrates the Chinese New Year" Giant Lucky Bag next to the Bodhi Tree, guests can step into a giant blessing bag with an adorable horse and filled with gold ingots for photos, symbolizing "being embraced by wealth and blessings with a house full of gold and silver" in the coming year! Master Mak Ling Ling notes that both installations are meaningfully arranged to gather abundant blessings and good fortune, allowing people to feel the vibrant positive energy!

The "Golden Lucky Bag Celebrates the Chinese New Year" Giant Lucky Bag, Photo source: Ngoing Ping 360

Master Mak Ling Ling Blesses Ngong Ping on an Auspicious Day

Doubling the Blessings with Lucky Charms

Renowned Feng Shui Master Mak Ling Ling will visit Ngong Ping Village at 11:45am on 21 February to distribute lucky charms and chocolate coins to guests in front of the Pavilion at Ngong Ping Village, while offering New Year blessings to all! Master Mak notes that Ngong Ping Village has an especially good New Year atmosphere with strong positive energy. Its high elevation and the close proximity to the Big Buddha helps enhance positive energy. She invites everyone to meet her at Ngong Ping Village during Chinese New Year!

The renowned Feng Shui Master Mak Ling Ling, Photo source: Ngong Ping 360

Lion Dance Performances Welcome the Chinese New Year

God of Fortune Meet-and-Greet

Ngong Ping 360 has invited a professional lion dance troupe to perform and God of Fortune to meet and greet at 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm daily from 17 to 22 February in front of the Pavilion, adding festive colors to Ngong Ping Village! On 21 February, the first lion dance performance and God of Fortune Meet-and-Greet will be held earlier at 11:45 am.

The lion dance performance and the meet-and-greet of God of Fortune, Photo source: Ngong Ping 360

One Ticket for Two Visits

Double the Fun

Starting today until 30 January, guests can purchase "Double The Ride" offer on the Ngong Ping 360 official website to enjoy two round-trip cable car rides (Standard Cabin) by March for the price of one. The offer applies to adult, child, and senior round-trip cable car (Standard Cabin) tickets, allowing guests to ride the cable car to Ngong Ping on different dates to participate in multiple New Year activities at a favorable price! Guests who use the offer will also receive lucky charms or Year of the Horse ornaments, available for redemption at Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal on-site, while supplies last! Purchase link: https://bit.ly/3Lrk4vY

Guests can purchase "Double The Ride" offer during the period. Photo source: Ngong Ping 360

The usage period of "Double The Ride" offer is from now until 31 March with the first use required in January. The offer is not applicable from 17 to 19 February. Those wishing to use the offer during 17 to 19 February can pay an additional HK$100 for round-trip cable car (Standard Cabin) at the Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal Ticketing Office. Guests must purchase the offer tickets on the Ngong Ping 360 official website at least a day in advance of their visit date.

Year of the Horse Celebration at Ngong Ping 360

Date: 24 January to 8 March, 2026

Time: 10 am to 6 pm

Location: Ngong Ping Village
"Golden Steed Welcomes the Chinese New Year": Stupa Square
"Success at the Gallop" Fortune Wheel Photo Spot: Next to the Village archway
"Golden Lucky Bag Celebrates the Chinese New Year" Giant Lucky Bag: Next to the Bodhi Tree

Renowned Feng Shui Master Mak Ling Ling Sending Blessings

Date: 21 February, 2026

Time: 11:45am

Location: In front of the Pavilion, Ngong Ping Village

Lion Dance Performances and God of Fortune Meet-and-Greet

Date: 17 to 22 February, 2026

Time: 12:30pm* and 3:30pm (two performances daily)
*The first performance on 21 February, 2026 will be held at 11:45am

Location: In front of the Pavilion, Ngong Ping Village

"Double The Ride" offer

Sales period: Until 30 January, 2026

Usage period: 6 January to 30 March, 2026 (excluding 17 to 19 February, 2026)

Original Price: Adult HK$590 Child HK$300 Senior HK$310

Discounted Price: Adult HK$295 Child HK$150 Senior HK$155

Details: Starting today until 30 January, 2026, guests can purchase "Double The Ride" offer on the Ngong Ping 360 official website to enjoy two round-trip cable car rides (Standard Cabin) for the price of one. The offer applies to adult, child, and senior round- trip cable car (Standard Cabin) tickets, allowing guests to ride the cable car to Ngong Ping on different dates to participate in multiple New Year activities at a favorable price! Guests who use the offer will also receive lucky charms or Year of the Horse ornaments, available for redemption at Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal on-site, while supplies last!

Guests must use this offer at least once within January 2026. On the day of the first ride, guests must redeem a voucher for the second ride at the ticketing hall in Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal, and present the voucher on the day of the second ride. Ngong Ping 360 staff will verify the guest name on the voucher which shall be identical to the person who uses the cable car ticket. Guests are required to present identification document to the staff for verification.

The usage period of the offer is from now until 31 March, 2026, excluding 17 to 19 February, 2026. Those wishing to use it during 17 to 19 February, 2026 can pay an additional HK$100 at the Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal Ticketing Office. on the Ngong Ping 360 official website. Purchase link: https://bit.ly/3Lrk4vY

The year's weather 2025 - a stormy 2025

Globally, 2025 is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organization's preliminary assessment. Over the Arctic and Antarctica, sea-ice extent remained well below average during the year. In particular, the Arctic annual maximum sea-ice extent was the lowest in the satellite record. Extreme weather events affected many parts of the world in 2025, including heatwaves in East Asia, Europe, and the eastern Mediterranean; severe droughts in southwest Asia and the Amazon basin; severe flooding triggered by extreme rainfall in South Asia, western Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and Texas in the United States; and severe damages and heavy casualties inflicted by tropical cyclones in the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Mozambique, Madagascar, the Caribbean, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Rampant wildfires, exacerbated by high temperatures, dry and windy conditions, also wreaked havoc in Europe, the Republic of Korea, and California in the United States.

Sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific were near normal from January through October 2025, then lingered between below normal and near normal in November and December 2025.

In Hong Kong, with all 12 months warmer than usual, including the record-breaking monthly mean temperature in October, 2025 was the sixth warmest year on record, with the annual mean temperature reaching 24.3 degrees, 0.8 degrees above the 1991-2020 normal (Note 1). The annual mean maximum temperature of 27.1 degrees and the annual mean minimum temperature of 22.4 degrees were respectively one of the fifth highest and one of the sixth highest since records began in 1884. There were 53 very hot days (Note 2) and 54 hot nights (Note 3) in Hong Kong in 2025, both ranking the third highest on record. There were also four extremely hot days (Note 4), ranking one of the fifth highest on record.

The lowest temperature recorded at the Observatory in the year was 10.6 degrees on January 27. The number of cold days (Note 5) in the year was six days, 9.2 days less than the 1991-2020 normal. Moreover, this was also the first time that no Cold Weather Warning was in force in November and December in a year since the Cold Weather Warning System commenced operation in 1999.

While the accumulated rainfall recorded in the first half of the year was only 444.4 millimetres, the fifth lowest on record for the same period, with outbreaks of heavy rain during July to September, the annual total rainfall in 2025 was 2 558.7 millimetres, about 5 per cent above the 1991-2020 normal of 2 431.2 millimetres. The rainfall was concentrated during July to September, and the total rainfall during these three months contributed more than 80 per cent of the annual rainfall. There were 16 Red Rainstorm Warnings and five Black Rainstorm Warnings, breaking the respective highest annual numbers on record. The number of days with thunderstorms reported in Hong Kong was 37 days in 2025, 5.3 days less than the 1991-2020 normal.

With the relative humidity well below normal in the first half of the year and in November, the annual mean relative humidity of 73 per cent in 2025 was 5 per cent below the normal of 78 per cent and on par with 1963 as one of the lowest on record since 1947. The low humidity in 2025 is mainly attributed to the drier-than-usual northeast monsoon over southern China from January to April and in November. The stronger-than-normal and more westward extending subtropical ridge in May and June, which suppressed the precipitation in Hong Kong, also contributed to the relatively drier weather in these two months.

A total of 35 tropical cyclones occurred over the western North Pacific and the South China Sea in 2025, more than the long-term (1961-2020) average of about 30. There were 14 tropical cyclones reaching typhoon intensity (Note 6) or above during the year, similar to the long-term average of about 15, and five of them reached super typhoon intensity (with maximum 10-minute wind speed of 185 kilometres/h or above near the centre). In Hong Kong, 14 tropical cyclones necessitated the issuance of tropical cyclone warning signals, more than double the long-term average of about six in a year, the highest annual number since 1946. The Hurricane Signal No. 10 was issued twice in the year during the passages of Typhoon Wipha in July and Super Typhoon Ragasa in September, tying the previous record in 1964. The No. 8 Gale or Storm Signal was issued during the passage of Severe Tropical Storm Tapah in September.

The record-breaking number of tropical cyclones affecting Hong Kong in the year is mainly attributed to higher-than-normal sea surface temperature over the western North Pacific and the more westward extending subtropical ridge during the summer and autumn, which favoured the tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific and the South China Sea moving towards the northern part of the South China Sea, increasing the chance that they would affect the coast of southern China, including Hong Kong.

Detailed description of the weather for individual months is available on the Monthly Weather Summary webpage:www.weather.gov.hk/en/wxinfo/pastwx/mws/mws.htm

A detailed version of the year's weather for 2025 with some significant weather events in Hong Kong is available at:www.weather.gov.hk/en/wxinfo/pastwx/ywx.htm

Note 1: Climatological normals for the reference period of 1961-1990, 1971-2000, 1981-2010 and 1991-2020 are available at: www.weather.gov.hk/en/cis/normal.htm. Climatological normals of 1991-2020 are referenced in the text unless otherwise stated.

Note 2: "Very hot day" refers to the condition with the daily maximum temperature equal to or higher than 33.0 degrees.

Note 3: "Hot night" refers to the condition with the daily minimum temperature equal to or higher than 28.0 degrees.

Note 4: "Extremely hot day" refers to the condition with the daily maximum temperature equal to or higher than 35.0 degrees.

Note 5: "Cold day" refers to the condition with the daily minimum temperature equal to or lower than 12.0 degrees.

Note 6: Information on the classification of Tropical Cyclones is available at: www.weather.gov.hk/en/informtc/class.htm.

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