Journey to Senado Square Macau from Hongkong

Landing in Hongkong airport, I decided to buy Turbojet ticket to Macau, it cost HK$260. It’s quite convenience, you don’t need to go out the airport, even you don’t need to pass the immigration to take the luggage. Give the luggage tag to the teller when you buy the ticket, they would take the luggage for you and put directly to the boat free of charge, but at least you have to be an hour before boat’s departure. The boat to Macau from Hongkong airport is not every hour, so please see the schedule carefully to get the best time for you to depart.


It took around an hour from Hongkong to Macau by the speedboat, no drink is available on the boat for the passenger, please be ready to bring water before you go on to the boat. Arrived in the Macau harbour, I didn’t have any map or clue how to go to the hotel with our big luggages, my friend and I decided to take a taxi. If we didn't bring luggage, bus riding bus was the best option. We also saw some ricksaws park in front of the harbour.

We were hurry going to the taxi queue, it was quite long, it took more than half an hour to get a taxi. We showed the hotel name and address to the driver, unfortunately he didn’t understand English, lucky that he had a book contained hotel list in Macau. I appointed London, because it’s the most similar name with Ole London, but I was not so sure whether it’s the correct hotel, so on the way I called the hotel using my Indonesian number, and asked her to talk directly to the driver. To avoid paying an expensive roaming, I was in hurry when giving my mobile phone to the driver, it’s not a proper time at all. At that time he was taking a U-turn while receiving my phone, and a big bus was right behind us, fortunately he was quite agile to avoid the accident.


Not taking a long time we arrived safely at the hotel, it’s a budget hotel called Ole London Hotel (Praca de Ponte e Horta 4-6 Macau City, phone: +85328937765) cost HK$400 without breakfast. The hotel reception was very welcome and friendly, the room was clean and simple with modern style, equiped with plasma TV, king size bed with nice and clean soft bed and white bed cover, a sophisticated shower. Shortly it’s quite comfortable to take a rest. The hotel location was quite strategies, just a distance walk (10 minutes) to Sedona square.


Along the way you could find many small restaurants which open since early morning, so you also could have a breakfast. It’s around 18:00, we decided to stop by at a small restaurant having dinner before exploring Macau. My wonton noodle portion was quite big, so I asked my friend’s help to finish it, the soup and thin yellow noodle tasted good. The weather was quite cold, around 14 degree Celcius, it’s a good food to warm our body.

Senado square was crowded with many tourists, it’s the central city where people gathered for relaxing. There is a fountain in the middle of the square with a metal globe in the middle of the fountain. The street was built from small black and white wavy pavement. Pastel-colored neo classical buildings surrounding the square created a consistent and harmonious Mediterranean atmosphere. Institute of Civic & Municipal Affairs was built in 1784 decorated with magnificent blue and white Portuguese tiles. A magnificent building with yellow and blue light was used as tourism information center at the left side of the square.

Many food stalls were available at the aisle of the main street, where you could find fruits, fried snacks, peanuts, etc. If you like to shops, on the main streets are available various shops such as Giordano, Bossini, Bauhaus, Sasa (parfumes and cosmetics), Body Shop, Mac Donald, etc.


Walking along the street we met a beautiful St. Dominique church with yellow wall, unfortunately it didn’t open at that time, so we could not go inside. I heard the Maria statue inside is very beautiful. My friend brought SLR camera with wide lense, his camera is much better than mine to get the whole building from a near distance while mine, pocket camera only could catch half of it. We ignored the crowded, tried to get a good angle and pose, to take the picture we had to sit on the street.


Continue strolling Senado area we arrived at The Cathedral of Macau (re-built in 1937) at Largo de Se, Macau. The church was quite beautiful and shiny connected to pastor dormitory. It has two solid towers and massive doors and fine stained-glass window. It’s very difficult to get the whole area using my camera, so my friend was kind enough to take my picture with his camera to capture the beautiful elegant Catholic church. This is the end of Senado square area, so many benches available on the park beside the church, people were sitting there enjoy the mild night.

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