we woke early today.. went for the free breakfast buffet @ Hotel Beverly Plaza, food was not bad.. i tink find hotels very impt if they provide free breakfast.. it will be a plus point to draw customers like me to patronise their hotels haha..
filled our stomachs with much food and took a cab to the Grand Prix Museum and Wine Museum @ Macau.. our 2nd taxi trip jiu kena cheated le.. taxi uncle nv give us correct change and the blur us only to realise it after we alighted.. sigh.. anyway, there's this Museum Pass which you can visit 6 museum for a fixed price.. alternatively, you can pay when you enter one museum at a time but more expensive la.. so we bought the Museum Pass.. as you may have known.. Macau every year got this Grand Prix event at usually November.. hotels lining the track of this event will have damn high booking rates la.. cuz good view ma.. this museum showcase the different models of cars.. bikes.. an eye-opener for us.. and also a stimulator game to expereience the feeling of participating in the Grand Prix..
Him with the famous Michael Schumacher
the Wine Museum is located just next to the Grand Prix Museum.. it exhibits a series of how grape wine is made.. the Portugese story.. the different kinds of wine.. a really good place for those wine-lovers to check it out.. and also free wine tasting.. drink as much as you want i think.. haha though we just had a glass of each type.. after tasting,if you like.. you can buy the wine at the souvenir shop.. i thought that was pretty interesting..
after tat.. we walked to the Golden Flower Statue.. Both HK and Macau has a Golden Flower given to them by China..the one you see now is @ Macau.. we also took with the Golden flower in HK which you will see later..
and den... we took a cab to the Macau Tower.. to our surprise, there's this Da Vinci Exhibition whcih showcase the inventions of Da Vinci.. he;s really a smart man with no doubts.. just look at his inventions.. from music.. to arts.. to mechanics.. to physics.. to monalisa.. to the human anatomy..photography not allowed..so no picz here~Also at the Macau Tower, you can try bungy jumping, skywalk.. from a great height.. at the end of it.. you'll be given a certificate.. need to pay money one..tat day too cold le.. we didnt try.. haha.. too dangerous!
den later, we took a cab to this 妈祖庙,a famous tourist attraction..beside it is the Macau Maritime Museum.Below are pics taken at the temple,the maritime museum.. we ventured off from there,came across this souvenir shop which forum did recommend.. we went in and bought the famous almond cookies.. the original flavour one is extreme nice.. i dun like almond cookies one cuz of the smell.. but these cookies changed my impression.. must try!!@ Koi Kei Bakery..Sg also got sell..but they are overpriced..shipping fees maybe?? they have many outlets thruout Macau.. also got sell Portugese egg tarts.. after eating these egg tarts, we lose total interest in Sg and HK egg tarts.. haha..is just so different!another must-try food at Macau!
The famous Koi Kei Bakery
A-Ma Temple
Maritime Museum
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and after tat.. we went off to this Senado Square and the famous Ruins of St. Paul.. below are pics taken at these places.. a very touristy-looking place.. modern side of Macau indeed..tried the 猪扒包 and 奶茶.. not bad.. very tasty and cheap..
many people ah.. everyone wana take pic in front of the Ruins of St. Paul.. get the best view.. lucky we got bring tripod.. is really handy if just 2 persons go travel haha.. or else you have to keep finding people to take pics for us..
there's another museum located near..Macau Museum.. so you see.. the Museum Pass is actually quite worthwhile haha.. but this time.. after goin so many museum.. very tired liao.. no energy to read.. jus go in see see..
scenery view from the top of the museum
i was quite thirsty so went to 711 to get a drink.. sad to say.. @ Macau.. most shop vendors and sales personnel do not speak English or CHinese.. so is just Canto.. and when you duno how to speak Canto.. is quite troublesome at times.. I was framed for paying less at this convenience shop for a bottle of mineral water.. trying to tell them I pay the exact price as listed on the box of mineral water in the shop..they start shouting as if im a robber or some pest.. I was disgusted.. very disgusted by the impatience they display.. and left the shop "throwing money" and quickly walked away before it gets more ugly.. arg.. it kinda spoil my day for that occasion.. fancy getting scolded by a foreign language..
night view in Senado Square
without much delay.. we took a cab to the Canidrome Race Course.. 赛狗场。.there were many China tourists on that day.. we didnt bet though. just go take a look.. is quite amusing to see the dogs running after that fake "rabbit".. there's this dog number 4 which shitted while it is walking to the startpoint haha..
very hungry liao after watching dog race.. went for some street food.. it was not bad.. a bit like yong tau foo.. and their 鱼蛋 is immersed in curry.. so the food are quite currified.. haha..good to warm your stomachs in the cold weather esp at night..
we went back hotel after tat..put our stuff and went photo-takin outside different casinos.. transport was free thruout.. we just had to make our way to the ferry terminal.. play ard with the various hotel shuttle buses.. and move from one hotel to another..very grand la.. all the hotels.. some look sleazy.. some look super grand.. we went to the latest casino MGM Grand.. very grand indeed with the lion statue in front of the hotel.. no cameras to be brought into casino.. security very strict.. so tat night.. we jus go take pics of different hotels.. nv go in to play YET! haha..
beautiful bridge in Macau
famous casinos in Macau: MGM Grand, Grand Lisboa, Wynn, Sands Casino
as you may have guessed.. go so many places tat day muz be very tired bah.. indeed.. totally KO tat day.. as usual.. Dad not back at hotel even after we reach hotel at 2am.. haha.. i just duno what he is doing at these casinos .. 佩服！
A good thing of Ramada HK Hotel is that transport is readily available as the tram is just right in front of the hotel.. with an affordable HKD$2.. you can take the tram as long as you want.. we took it to the Western Market as shown.. This market has some kind of history behind it.. something on the British.. it looks reallie westernized to me.. took a few pics at this interesting building.. actuallie inside sell many cloth materials of differnt designs.
Next, we ventured out along the streets of Sheung Wan.. you see many shops selling those dried seafood.. which I do not know how to appreciate haha.. maybe aunties and uncles.. and grannys and grandpa will appreciate more of such.. as for youngsters.. well..u just dun see them at these shops.. i tink is quite a big sales over there ba since so many are selling roughly the same stuff and wanting to get more customers to them..
after which..we hurried our way to Wanchai MTR..walking then to the Golden Bauhinia Sculpture located near the Convention Centre.. this is the other flower given by China to HK..does it have any difference to the flower we took with in Macau??? And that was our last stop in HK... we had to go back to wait for our hotel-transfer -to-airport-bus..which arrived promptly to our relief..as there was some complications in the arrangement of this bus..
had this on the plane..fish with a packet of cashew nuts for additional flavouring.. that's the end of our 2nd trip to HK.. went to places which we haven been.. climbin mountain too..it was an experience after all :)
