On Friday we managed to get a hotel in Macau which are very crowded during weekend. It's very tight time when we departed from apartment in Hongkong to the ferry terminal for Jet Cotai, we still needed to change the voucher with the boarding ticket. It's less than half an hour before boarding time, I was very worried, lucky that we could catch the ferry right before departure after passing through immigration post in Hongkong.
Arriving at Macau, we rode the free shuttle bus to the hotel. Venetian Macao Resort & Hotel where we stayed for a night is very luxury and beautiful. It's very huge hotel with 3000 suite rooms. Lucky there's Carnivale 2014 event starting on that day in the hotel. Check in time starting at 13:00 o'clock, so we put our luggage at the concierge for easier going around before check in time. The golden statue in the main lobby is beautiful, it's connected to the beautiful golden aisle towards the world largest casino (550,000 square feet).
We went to the Venetian canal where guests could ride a serenading gondoliers, we also met and took picture with a couple who were wearing the Spanish ancient traditional clothes for dancing party. The ceiling was like a blue sky, they could control the light, to become lighter or darker. Many grandeur shops featuring world renowned brands entertained guests to shop. After taking some beautiful pictures, we went for lunch as my sisters were starving. We had to walk further to find the food court, it's very crowded, so many kind of food provided from Vietnam, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese food, etc. My mom shared her lunch with me for teriyaki chicken rice, it's very delicious.
After lunch, we went back to the main lobby for check in, it's queue already. We ordered Bella Suites with 2 Queen size beds as 4 of us are adult. It took a long way to walk from the main lobby to our room, it's very spacious, 70 sqm with aristocrat style. A sunken living room area with its comfortable sofa was facing to the windows with its own TV. An elegant huge marble bathroom with bathtub and shower completed with dressing table. A big plasma TV were provided for watching from the beautiful beds. Although the rooms were very huge, the hotel only provided 2 small bottles of water. After taking a rest for a while, we decided to go to the other side of Macau.
Asking the direction from the concierge, they were kind enough to inform that there was a free shuttle bus from city of dream which was across Venetian hotel to Sintra hotel in the old Macau. Waiting for the bus for a few minutes, it took around half an hour to go across the bridge to go to the old Macau. Reaching Sintra, we walked to Senado square as Macau's urban center for centuries. Taking some pictures on the square surrounded by neo-classical buildings, we decided to carry on the journey. Strolling through Senado we passed by the beautiful St. Dominic's Church dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary which dates back to the early 1600s, when it was founded by the Dominicans.
We didn't know the direction so I kept asking the people on the way by showing the Macau map pointing to the Ruins of St. Paul's picture. Lucky we could find it before dark, the façade of the old St. Paul's Church which opened in the 16th century and served as Asia's first Western college. The Ruins of St. Paul’s was officially listed in 2005 as part of the UNESCO World Heritage site, the Historic Centre of Macau. It's very crowded, after taking some pictures with the Macau iconic place, we took a rest. My mom was very tired as she got accident in Hongkong, fell down on the escalator impacted fractured to her tail bone. She could not walk or sit too long and she had to take a pain killer medicine twice a day to be able to continue the journey.
The popular snack store on the corner was attracted us, as they provided the tester, so we could buy any snack we like after tested it. The packaging was very beautiful, it seems that we would like to buy all of them, unfortunately we had a limited space in our luggage. They also sold the nice pork meat, but I preferred the other store also sold pork meat which I had tested on the way up to St. Paul. My sisters and my mom bought the popular Portuguese egg tart, they loved it. It's nice to eat while it's hot. On the way down from St Paul, most of the snack stores providing tester on the way, so I felt full tasting it, it's fun anyway.
Still had a chance to take picture of beautiful shining Senado square at night. Finding public toilet was very difficult in Senado square, finally we found walking to the left side of the square. We went back to the Sintra hotel direction, we stopped by for dinner before going back by free shuttle. Actually I would like to bring them exploring the beautiful hotels with its free entertainment of lighting and fountain, such as Grand Lisboa, Wynn, MGM, etc. Unfortunately all of us were very tired, so we could not walk too far anymore.
Reaching our hotel, it's just in time to see the 15 minutes lightening show performance on the lagoon. There's also live music and some stalls selling food and beverages, but we're too tired to enjoy it, so we went directly to our room for taking a rest. We're quite satisfied with our trip that day.
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