Day 3 @ Macau - The Venetian Macao

Along the way back from Ruins of St. Paul's, we went to look for the souvenir.


One of the famous souvenir shop there. You actually can try out all of the products they are selling includes the dried meat (肉干). My dad brought a lot of dried meat. But we already finished makan it before departing from Macau. :D


We passed through a fish ball stall where many people queue up for buying it. So we bought some to eat. The taste was just so-so.


The street crowded with people and many souvenir shops available here.


A-Ma Temple. We took the public bus down to here. We didn’t go into the temple though as you can see the picture there was full of people.


This milk custard (炖奶) was nice.

Evening, before we went to visit The Venetian Macau, we took a short trip in Fisherman’s Wharf (渔人码头) where next to the Macau-HK Ferry Terminal. The Fisherman’s Wharf is the first theme park in Macau. All the stores and restaurants within here are builds in the style of different world seaport like Cape Town, Amsterdam and Venice. It has three major themes which is Dynasty Wharf, East Meets West and Legend Wharf.


This was part of Dynasty Wharf.



Alright, we got to take shutter bus to The Venetian Macau.

For your information, The Venetian Macau is a Renaissance Venice-themed luxury hotel and casino resort in Macau. It is reproduced on its sister casino resort – The Venetian in Las Vegas. The Venetian Macau is the largest single structure hotel building in Asia and the fourth-largest building in the world. Its casino is currently the largest in the world as well.

Interior



San Luca canal


Toilet...haha




We had the dinner at The Venetian food court.



Exterior










This building was huge. I was unable to get the full shoot of this building even mounted with a wide angel lens unless you stand far away.

Day 3 @ Macau - Ruins of St. Paul's & Mount Fortress

This morning we went to eat Macau’s famous food which was the Portuguese egg tart. The café was located the street behind of our guesthouse we stayed. Besides of the tart, they have various kinds of sandwich and drinks. Most of the officers like to come over here took away their breakfast.


It was fresh, warm and delicious. I ate two to three pieces continually. Any nice Portuguese egg tart available in KL? I want to makan leh.....


You can pick any filling you want into your sandwich.


This one was nice too.


Third floor of this building was the guesthouse we stayed.

The place we had the Portuguese egg tart called Magret's Café & Nata. Every single Portuguese egg tart costs MOP5.50.


Post office


Family photo at Senado Square.


Sibling photo. Hehe....


Lou Yan Ka!!!


Say hi to Ruins of St. Paul's.....


I spotted another Lou Yan Ka sitting in front of Ruins of St. Paul's. Haha...


See that uncle and the naked woman statue. Another Lou Yan Ka walked toward again. Why so many Lou Yan Ka one??


The blue blue sky was back!


Ruins of St. Paul’s reflected on the window.


Me and Ruins of St. Paul’s. Hehee....



Mount Fortress was next to Ruins of St. Paul’s.






Hahaha....my dad.....


Macau city view from Mount Fortress


The Museum of Macau

Day 2 @ ZhuHai - 圆明新园 (New Yuan Ming Palace)

The New Yuan Ming Palace would be the last place to go for our tour package. Among all the sightseeing that we went through the whole day, this place was the most interesting one. Here was the shooting location of the popular China drama “My Fair Princess (还珠格格)” as well.

Here is little information about New Yuan Ming Palace that I get it from internet.

The New Yuan Ming Palace is a reproduction of the imperial Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing, one of the favorite gardens of the late emperors of the Qing dynasty. It was burnt down and completely destroyed by British and French troops in 1860. The New Yuan Ming Palace was built as a reminder of the glory and the bitter history of ancient China and has been set up as a patriotism education site.

The entrance fee was RMB60 (for night season only).

For the night season ticket after 6pm only can got into there. We been there early and felt little bit hungry. So we bought this makan.


Cold weather with sweet potato....nice!


Toilet






New Yuan Ming Palace
















This is maltose. The shape is special but I wonder how to eat it.

We had the dinner inside the New Yuan Ming Palace.




It was super big portion. Can I say China man like to eat rice? Haha...



We still have little time left, so just walk around.




Phoenix, made by Chinese traditional meal set. Can’t see it clearly?


I really admired how they join it together.


Again, amazing handwork they have. The material was same with that phoenix.


Family photo. Hehe...


Night view was much nicer.


Emperor’s seat

That’s all for the ZhuHai one day trip.

Day 2 @ ZhuHai - 九州城 (JiuZhou Cheng), 景山园 (JingShan Park) and Island Hopping

Hey, I’m back. Thanks to the assignments, this Macau post keeps pausing. I promise the whole thing will be finish as soon as possible. There’s lot of other post is pending because of this.

Early morning we took public bus off to ZhuHai city. By the way, I love Macau public bus service. Their buses got many turns within a short moment. I wondered when is our country can do that.

We actually can’t get much tourist information about ZhuHai city especially for their bus router and sightseeing location through the internet. So the best choice was joined their one day trip package. Regarding to their tourism management, I used “sucks” to describe their service. We paid one day trip money, but we received half day visiting only.

First of all, we registered the package then they sent us to unknown bus station and wait for further arrangement. After that we wait for one hour and wait for don’t know what the hell procedure then we only gets into the bus. We wait another more than one hour to wait for the unscheduled late tour guide. We spent the whole afternoon wait this and that. End up we were rushing from one place to another place. Moreover most of the sightseeing spots were not really special and felt bored.


We went to the first place,JiuZhou Cheng (九州城). It is museum and nothing special out there.


Outside of the museum I found some hawkers like this woman. She was still using the traditional Chinese steelyard balance to measure the weight.


Bing Tong Wu Lou

After the quick visit of museum, we had the lunch at a restaurant which was included in the tour package. Next, we headed to second sightseeing spot, JingShan Park (景山园).

There’s two ways got to the peak:

Cable car

Or


Bus no.11 (jalan kaki)

The hill was rather high. By walking up to the peak spend you half an hour. But cable car just need 3 minutes would reach there.


Oh yea, you have to pay for the cable car. I forgot the price though.


Statue


From the peak you can see through ZhuHai city. The weather was not nice and can’t see it clearly.



There’s two ways back to the ground. One was the cable car or this...


One minute reaches ground. Damn fast. Unfortunately, we don’t have much time to wait for the long queue. :(



Evening, we’re arrived WanZai Wharf to take the Macau island hopping. It’s quite disappointing and felt bored along this journey. If this activity make it at night would be better, as least we can see the beautiful night view rather than grey sky and without sunset. Nevertheless, I will put the photos at here but add some warm color on it. Otherwise everything will be in dull color.


Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre

Day 1 @ Macau - Fountain & McDonald

Alright, this is the last part for day one at Macau.

I realized that first day we went quite lot of places when I reviewed back the photos. Perhaps all these places were near to each other, so we managed to walk through within one night. Sometimes we already tired of walking but it was too early back to hostel and sleep. That’s why I had much more time to set up tripod and snap night view. Keke...


Wynn Hotel. The fountain is in front of here. It will present every 15 minutes. Once it starts, many people sit beside of it and watch until the end.












This fellow was damn stupid. He saw I was shooting the fountain, but he insists to pass over in front of my camera. !@#$%^$%^%$##%^











For our dinner, we actually never planned to eat McDonald. Thanks to all the restaurants were full of people and need to take some time to get our seat. Therefore, I got chance to try pork burger in McDonald. Kekeke....Malaysia never has pork in any fast food restaurant. Try not to expect it will appear right here forever. I know you are encouraged to try their local food instead of fast food when you been to other country. But this moment, that was considered a must try for us.


Mala grilled pork burger. Tak pedas langsung....


My left hand holding this burger, then right hand use camera snaps this important moment. Hahaha....Actually this picture make me think of lizard. Lol....

Finished.....

The next day we are going to Zhuhai, China for one day trip.

Day 1 @ Macau - Grand Lisboa Hotel

During the night time, Macau will turns into a very beautiful city. All of their building decorated with fancy lighting. I was curious that how they did it and how the programmers set everything nicely. Yes, I think too much. Lol...

There’s an area allow you to let off the firework legally. You can watch the firework throughout the night. That’s make you feel the Chinese New Year atmosphere. By the way, I love Macau night view very much. It will kill you lot of storage to snap through all of the buildings.










Lisboa Hotel



Below are the series of Grand Lisboa Hotel photos. Grand Lisboa Hotel is totally a new version of Lisboa Hotel. It features with a tall lotus shaped which is designed by the Feng Shui Master. Unfortunately, I don’t have chance to go in have a glance. If not mistaken inside has very grand design.


Grand Lisboa Hotel









The next post is talking about the fountain in front of Wynn Hotel and I going to eat Mala grilled pork burger at McDonald.

Day 1 @ Macau - St. Dominic's Church

Sorry, I was busying with my assignments lately. Let’s come back to Macau post.

After having the tea time, we continued walked toward Senado Square. I found out a church called St. Dominic’s Church (玫瑰堂). Erm, this was my first time stepped into the church. Haha


St. Dominic’s Church (玫瑰堂)


Before going there, I got this shot which my mum and my bro were busy looking at the map.


This was the interior of the church. It has been developed into HDR. I remember many people looking at me when I taking this shot with my tripod. I noticed even few of the DSLR gang from other country was like “Is that necessary get this shot with the tripod?” Yes, it is necessary because there’s very dark.


The church will be closed at 6pm something then the light will turn on later.


One more shot from lower angle.Hehe....


The street was damn crowded.