This will be my second time in Macau. The last time I went to Hong Kong in 2011 for YUI's concert, I spent a day in Macau too. To get to Macau from Hong Kong, you can take a ferry from a few locations in Hong Kong.
As it was a first for few of my friends, the itinerary that I made up was pretty much the same as my year 2011 itinerary. The few must go places in Macau.
Of coz, The Venetian and the Ruins of St. Paul's.
So anyway, the ferry tickets can be bought over the counters or through their online service from the respective websites. As far as I know, there're 2 companies that provides ferry services to Macau from Hong Kong. The 2 companies are TurboJet and CotaiJet. We bought the ferry tickets online to save us some sleep time.
On the day itself, we collected the tickets from the collection counter. Oh, before I forget, we took a train to Sheung Wan Station on Hong Kong island around 8.15am, the ferry terminal is located at 3/F Shun Tak Centre, 200 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan, a mall just beside the station. There is also another ferry terminal at Mong Kok.
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| Turbojet Ticketing Counters |
Thanks to the slow service at Mac, we almost miss our ferry (or maybe we have already missed) as by the time we passed immigration and the check in counter, it was already 9.30am >.<
Luckily, the customer service personnel checked us onto another ferry heading for Macau when he realised that the 9.30am ferry has already left. And guess what? he checked us into first class when we only bought the economy class. :P Lucky day~
It's good to be late every once in a while, something good might happen lol
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| In the ferry |
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| Our coffee |
The whole journey took about an hour. The ferry terminal in Macau is called Taipa Ferry Terminal.
Before I proceed, I would like to state that for those of you who doesn't have any idea about Macau or never even heard of Macau before, Macau is like a heaven for gamblers. Like a mini Las Vegas lol
So anyway, once you exit Taipa Ferry Terminal, just over on the other side of the road, there are shuttle buses provided by the various casinos and major hotels in Macau. Just look for the sign of the hotel/casino you're planning to visit and hop on to the shuttle bus.
So, obviously my first destination was The Venetian. The Venetian is a luxury hotel and casino resort owned by the Las Vegas Sands. (quote wikipedia) If you've never visited this place in Macau, you've never been to Macau.
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| Inside the shuttle bus |
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| Shuttle bus provided by Venetian |
As usual, we looked for lunch first. Decided on food court as there're many varieties.
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| food court in The Venetian |
Some porridge, chee cheong fun, fried fritters...
Porridge was good.
A display in the mall.
Took some shots of the interior in The Venetian.
Was not allowed to take photos of the casino tho :/
Not sure if there was any occasion for all the hearts, if I remember correctly, the last time I was here, there wasn't any.
Just down the escalators, that's where the casino is, was not allowed to take photo tho :/
Came across a "magician" showing card tricks to tourists
As you walk around in The Venetian, you'll come across couple of staff (I assume) who dressed up like this guy here.
pretty cool
We even took a photo together :3 tho it was blurry -_- like freaking blurry, I can't even make out our faces.
We went down to the casino to have a look too. And I was stopped by the security to check on my ID xD (/oh, stop it you...)
By around 12 noon, we decided to leave for our next destination.
However to get to Ruins of St. Paul's we will need to take a cab.
It's back to where the terminal is, in Taipa but there aren't any shuttle bus service for this. As in to the Ruins of St. Paul's
To my surprise tho, the cab prices in Hong Kong and Macau aren't too expensive. They cost about the same in Singapore, if not cheaper.
Ruins of St. Paul's is called "Pai Fong" in Cantonese. Just tell the cabbie that you wanna go to Pai Fong and they'll know where to send you to.
Another casino?
Our cab took us here~
Tourists everywhere.
Mountains of people plus hot weather, not a good combi.
A friend was wearing sleeveless and shorts, telling me to take her out of Venetian coz of the air-conditioner, when we got off the cab here, she said "I wanna go back into the mall" lol
A former Portuguese Colony, there are many such looking buildings in Macau.
This is the bottom of the street leading up to Pai Fong.
Just follow the tourists, you'll find your way up lol
Though such a torture walking under the blazing hot sun, but it makes great for photoshooting
Tourists traps
no idea what that is, at all...
Famous Portuguese egg tart:
Hot & fresh from the oven.
If you did not try this in Macau, you've never been to Macau lol
Finally we reach Pai Fong.
Look at all the umbrellas, that's how hot it was.
view from up here.
The famous bakery to get all your Macau snacks for souvenirs. Almond cookies is one of them.
The famous Pork Chop Bun I never got to try the last time I was here (it was closed >.>)
hmmm, not as impressive as everyone says it is.... :/
Had to walk all the way back to where we got off the cab just now to cab to our next stop.
Heard from my friend, this place was featured in one of the episodes of Running Man.
This wasn't in my itinerary, we just somehow spotted it on our way to The Venetian before we decided to pay it a visit.
Great place for photo shoots.
Not exactly sure what's the purpose of this place tho. Think there's a mall inside?
Not much people around too.
Had a short break in a cafe here. Thank the sky for cool air and ice coffee.
not my shades :x
The ferry terminal is just beside this place, within walking distance maybe about 10 minutes.
Initially, my itinerary was to have a Portuguese style dinner here in Taipa (Tam Chai in Cantonese) before taking the ferry back to Hong Kong, but it was still quite early for dinner so we decided to ditch that and just take the next available ferry back to Hong Kong. Lucky we did not buy the ferry tickets beforehand because then we would have to wait till 9pm.
Had a short rest in hotel before going down Mong Kok for dinner.
The busy streets in Mong Kok
The famous dessert (Hui Lau Shan) that I mentioned in one of my previous post.
Had a hard time looking for a Char Chan Teng (restaurant?) that we don't have to queue >.<
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| Hot lemon tea |
Yummy!
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| Milk Tea |
Yummy yummy~
We took a short walk around Mong Kok, it was packed! even on a weekday. Well, Friday night.
I will talk about Mong Kok on my next post coz Mong Kok wasn't our main stop tonight.
Our main stop was :
hmmmm, I would prefer Clarke Quay over this place, coz Clarke Quay is more organized. A nice way to describe it.
Stopped by Hard Rock Cafe and another disco(?) for a drink or two... or three... maybe four. well...
ok, I had one tequila, 2 shots and 2 beer >.< (unsure exactly how much a pro drinker can drink tho)
and I'm proud to say that I was still sober! :x
Tho a friend said that the alcohol content of the drinks here aren't as high.
That might be the case..
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