May 18, 2011

Hong Kong + Macau - Day 2 -22Apr11

Here's we are back on the 2nd day of our trip...haha... friend has teased that our trip just went for a day??? how about the rest of the posts?? haha ... As some of you might know, we have been real busy with our going to shift (probably on 3 July) and new house stuffs...We have barely enough time to stay at home nowadays, usually we will be going out to hunt for new stuffs for the new house or going over to the new house for some final touch up supervision and cleaning...

Here's back to the trip, 2nd day our tour itinerary was officially commenced... We met with the 2nd group at the hotel lobby at 8am and proceeded to our dim sum breakfast.


After the breakfast, we headed to the ferry terminal .. While Peter assisted to get the ferry tickets for all of us, it was time for some group photos...The ferry was quite shaky in the beginning, I got bit of "butterfly" in me so as Dan Dan i guess, he came to me and said :"mummy i am scared"..haha luckily the sailing turned smooth after the initial nervousness.

We reached Macau approximately 50min later...

It was such a big huge crowd at the immigration.. The very 1st bad impression about Macau strucked me when I was tried to take this photo (below), there was this security dashed in front of me and warned me at his very rude/fierce manner... not to take photo in here... i was like ok...sure, i guess you may just let us know politely that the photography is not allowed here....after all we were there to boost up the economy of your country right? rolled eyes ~~

After about 30-45min of waiting, we were finally out from the crowd...

Here's the photo taken inside the bus.... The Venetian Macau !! The Road View is already very captivating... i had a real good shots along the way.. Our 1st itinerary was going to Ma Zhu (Temple)...

Here's our super fantastic tour guide (forgot his name) He is very entertaining with his words/jokes. We had a good-laugh -day-tour over at Macau... and he is definately much more better than Peter (the tour guide over at Hong Kong)

Here's presenting the Macau Sky Tower.

Here's the house of the The King of Gambling- Stanley Ho who has 17 children born to four wives. If you want to know a little bit more about him ...here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ho

Our 1st itinerary at Macau - Ma Zhu Temple... We didn't go into the temple.... so we just wondered outside while my colleagues were inside the temple.... The weather was sunny but it was not hot..nice weather...got an ice-cream for Dan, he sat quietly and enjoyed... All crowded and listened to the tour guide on some history/background of Macau/TempleAfter the temple, tour guide brought us to the shop that selling local products where we could get some souveniers back home. It was lunch time after our "shopping spree", we went to the Villa Picasso for our buffet lunch...


After the lunch, the long waited destination - Ruins of St Paul's Cathedral 大山巴牌坊- the attraction that cannot be missed when you visit Macau. It is considered Macau's most famous landmark when you can only see the front facade... According to the tour guide, it was a Catholic church but was destroyed by fire for 3 times and end up they refused to re-built it and hence it continued to be preserved as one of the attractions for the tourists.
Tour guide told us a tip that to have the best shots, we have to go down 18 steps from the top of the staircase...We didn't questioned much and everybody was obediently proceeded to count the steps..hahah.... i find it so cute...hahah in fact if you have a good camera, you shall be able to take a nice and stunning shots at any angle as long as it is not to near to the church.... Continue the journey down the staircases, there are shops/outlets along the alleyways that selling all kind of stuffs..eg: t-shirts/local products/sport wears and etc...a nice place to walk/shop around.... The place is called Senado Square (Largo do Senado). This place is called Leal Senado Building. It was the seat of Macau's government during the colonial past. The building itself was erected in 1784 and other than its fascinating architecture, it also has a lovely garden with the large open area is paved with cobblestones in a traditional portuguese style, with black and white's pattern, and the fountain at the centre makes a popular meeting point. In fact we had our meeting point here too with the tour guide and others... The last and final destination-- of course another cant be missed spot - The Venetian Macau... it is a resort hotel with the biggest casino in it at Macau, Luxury stuffs... all be found here... One of the most unique icon in this buiding will be it fake sky...where tour guide told us 人在走,云在漂!It is a real statement....try it if you have a chance to visit to Macau.. We had a real great time over at Macau...especially with a jovial tour guide...we left Macau at 8pm and reached hotel (Hong Kong) about 11++ We went back to Hotel...took our shower and straight headed to bed.... awaiting for another exciting day to come ..