Two Days Itinerary in Macau (part 2)

Sorry for postponed update! So here we go!

On the second day in Macau, I spent my day walked through all the famous world heritage spots in Macau Island area. While everyone on the net recommend the route to be started from Senado Square to the lower area, I started my route backwards; from down below (A Ma Temple) to upper area which is the Guia Lighthouse.

The exact route that I’ve walked in Macau Heritage Walk plan was (in order): 

• A-Ma Temple
• Moorish Barracks 
• Lilau Square
• St. Lawrence’s Church
• Dom Pedro Theatre, St Augustine’s Church, St Joseph’s Seminary and Church, Sir Robert Ho Tung Library (they are on the same area)
• Senado Square, Leal Senado Building, Holy House of Mercy (all same area too) 
• St. Dominic’s Church
• The Cathedral 
• Mount Fortress
• Ruin’s of St. Paul  
• St. Anthony’s Church 
• Guia Lighthouse

Since I stayed in the middle of Taipa Island and I’m very lazy to search for the bus route to my first destination (actually they have bus with the route that I wanted, but again, blame the construction sites everywhere the bus stop are nowhere to be seen!) I used taxi and it cost me around 50HKD from my hotel to A-Ma Temple.

I won’t talk that much about the history behind all the sites (as it was TOO MUCH to be told), I will just focus on each place that I have visited and what’s they look like.

First one is A-Ma temple; the one of the oldest Taoist temple in Macau that dedicated to Matsu, Goddess of Seafarers.

From A-Ma temple, everything just literally GO STRAIGHT to Senado Square, which is my temporary main aim from the temple.

Once I found a path like this on the side of A-Ma temple,

I just walked straight from there and the next building that I found was Moorish Barracks; being built to accommodate Indian regiments that were being dispatched from Goa, India. Can go enter the building but restricted only to the lobby area.

Walk a little bit more further from Moorish Barracks I found the Lilau Square.

Just near the Lilau Square, is the St Lawrence’s Cathedral which built before 1580 making it one of the oldest churches of Macao. The interior was beautiful, and the garden area was so peaceful too.

Finish with admiring every single thing there, walked again until I found the next big area where Dom Pedro Theatre, St Augustine’s Church, St Joseph’s Seminary and Church, and Sir Robert Ho Tung Library gather together.

The theatre was a little bit small but still can feel its glory presence.

Next to the theatre building is directly the St Augustine’s Church,

and Sir Robert Ho Tung Library.

I didn’t literally visit the St. Joseph’s Seminary and Church as it forbids me to enter from the back door there (see photo above) and require me to go outside the area and turn around on the back to enter the church via main entrance(which is quite troublesome). So I skipped that and continue walked straight from there until I found Senado Square, finally.

Leal Building is near the area too so I entered the place real quick before stepped in to the Senado Area.

Across the street was the Senado Square, which is, too bad for me, in their very awful state in my opinion as so many Chinese new year’s decoration were present at that time which somewhat annoys me THAT bad. I want the plain Senado Square!! Seriously.

Disaster.

Holy House of Mercy. Let’s skip this quick.

Walked to the end of the Senado Square area, reached the St. Dominic’s Church.

Actually, from here, everything was kind of in the same area and near to each other, and there were so many markings that lead you to several next historical places whichever would you like visit first.

I chose to visit the Cathedral first; took photo from the yard area and directly in front of the building itself.

I rest a bit there as I feel that wow, the whole trip from A-Ma Temple to this point was quite exhausting. And it was a right decision after all; because my next decision was Mount Fortress as the next target and HOLY guacamole, the road to the top was very steep and had quite a cardio back there!

Reached the top! Too bad it was foggy the whole week so the vision range was not very good. However I can see the Guia Lighthouse from here!

Anyhow, the trip from there and on was quite relaxed. Just follow the downward stairs from Mount Fortress lead me directly to the Ruin of St Paul; the main tourist spot at Macau.

It was so crowded and was quite a challenge to take a clean shot. Here was mine (with consideration to cut the below part as to avoid people’s head). Not so bad.

From there just take a little bit walk to the St. Anthony’s Church before leaving for Guia Fortress.

To go to the Guia Fortress, I use bus directly from the bus stop super near the church, and stop at Le Jardins du Flora. I’m very sorry that I forgot which bus number that I took; it was the wrong bus after all.

I thought the bus I took will take me directly to the station itself but instead they stopped at the main terminal in the middle of the route thus I have to change bus and pay again for the rest of the route.

Once I arrived, I just walked right to the cable car station spot, bought the ticket and directly went to the top of the hill. Reached the top, it took me around 15 minute more walk to reach the lighthouse.

It was not crowded at all and wish If I had more time to spent, I can spend the whole day dozing off there, maybe.

The lighthouse itself was quite fascinating although there’s not much to be seen for overall too. It will be much more perfect if the sky is clear and the whole scenery can be seen.

Thus Guia Lighthouse marked the finish point of my whole historical trip. From there I catch the bus back to City of Dreams to watch the House of the Dancing Water show which quite breathtaking too.

For overall, the trip from A-ma Temple to Guia Lighthouse took me from 10.00 to 17.00 on one day; including around 30 minutes lunch stop and 30 minutes lost around Senado Area to find one recommended restaurant which I finally couldn’t find at all. Considering that I went alone and my frequency to take photos and maybe selfies were not that time-consuming, 7 hours were just okay for me.

My opinion is that if you go in group and wanted to do a more relaxed time to enjoy every spot, 2 days will be perfect. 1 day is a little bit tight or so I think. But feel free to try on one day (and feel the burn on your feet!) as I feel that it was not that impossible to do too.

As a conclusion, It was a very, very fulfilling trip as I'm a very outdoor person, I haven't feel such in a better mood the whole day; as I spent mostly my days indoor on my work.

I can't wait to have this kind of trip again some other time. Gotta plan some more holiday to do!

See you on the next post!