As I have been telling you guys I finally wrote a separate post piece about my two days trip to Macau. I thought I will be able to do this in one short post however looking at all the crazy amounts of photos that I took back there, 2 post... doesn't look too bad.
My short itinerary for these two days were divided into two big parts, which is a one day trip around Taipa (or, the casinos) area and Macau World Heritage Sites on the second day.
It looked so simple (since the area were not as big as Hong Kong) however I have to say that I'm having quite a hard time to get used to the transportation system here, which most of them using bus. I didn't have any problem whatsoever with using bus daily however I realize that in Taipa area especially, so many construction sites was on place and several supposed-to-be-there bus stop which was told by Google Map where nowhere to be found, which leads to a consumed amount of time to search for the correct bus stop several times.
Since I had hard times to get used to Macau on the first day, I only have the chance to explore the Taipa Village and area around Venetian Macau and City of Dreams on day one.
My route from Hong Kong was Sheung Wan Ferry Terminal - Taipa Ferry Terminal - Macau Ferry Terminal - Kowloon Ferry Terminal.
When I first arrived in Taipa terminal, I was confused how to get to the city without using taxi, so I blindly go to several free shuttle bus to several hotels; since I'm aiming for City of Dreams, I took their free shuttle bus. The person asked me whether I will be staying at the hotel there, I said no, but I just said that I WANT to visit the City of Dreams, an luckily in the end they let me stay anyway and use the service.
First stop was City of Dreams, which I found it quite boring. Nothing's there except the casino which I'm not quite interested in, however this show, The House of Dancing Water catch my eye!
I read several reviews about this show on the web and it looked pretty awesome, so I decided to impulsively book the ticket for the next day (since apparently they were having off days or can't buy on the spot, I'm not very sure). And indeed it was awesome! Will talk about the detail on post 2.
Then I decided to take a walk to my hotel as It didn't too far away from the City of Dreams, and since it passed the Taipa Houses Museum and Taipa Village, I decided to take a look too.
The walk to the Taipa Houses Museum was just so, not China. hahahah. Well since Macau was strongly influenced by the Portuguese, so most of the building style were kind of European style too in some spots. It was a total environment change for me. Unreal.
But yet everything was so pretty and properly placed. Love that.
Continued my walk to the Taipa Village area which I didn't had chance to explore much, since I still carry around my luggage and raining quite bad that time.
The stairs to the Taipa Village area were beautiful.
The area filled with quite a lot of shops which sell several souvenirs and famous traditional food, such as the Portuguese egg tarts! Didn't bought a lot though, as I don't want my bag to get heavy before I move again to Kowloon the next day.
Once I reached my hotel, I'm quite drop dead tired as I have walked to a pretty hilly road on museum area, plus a little bit lost worsened by a quite hard rain. But once I went to my room I definitely whooooo!!-ing over my room.
Look at the queen size bed!! All for myself! and WTH with the see-through bath room!
Excited to the maximum but quite sad also since I only will use this room for one night.. But I was more than satisfied!
After having a quick rest and tidying all of the mess in my baggage from Hong Kong (thanks to the BIG room space I can just took out everything in my luggage and re-pack it.. how happy I was at that time..) I decided to go back to City of Dreams area with bus, and took a direct walk to the famous Venetian Macau since the area were close to each other.
I had to admit, the interior is just WOW.
Still hard to believe that all of this were the creation of a man. It was amazing.
The shopping area itself consist of several area with several different interior theme. All of them was just as mind blowing as it can be.
Yet at that time I realize the more mind-blown I am the more I think that all of these were such a vain; all of the rich people came here throwing their money in casinos and everything; surrounded by all the branded stuff and luxury goods, etc. If they already have everything and can do everything, do they have any life purposes after all of this? I wonder.
There are people so rich they just stomp several hundred thousand dollars on the casino table (I saw that by myself when I visit the casino) yet on the other part of the world some people even having hard time just to feed their own mouth. What kind of world we live in.
That's all. Sometimes my mind is just being a little bit philosophical.
Getting stoned just by seeing all of this weird life phenomena I found here.
After I'm getting bored and bored by all of this stuff (and before my head getting anymore weird), I decided to just walk around the outdoor area a little bit and call the day off.
Went to sleep that day with a little hope: that the second day will be much more of a "realistic" trip and more exciting than today's one.
Will post on part 2 soon!
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