13th April 2011 - Hong Kong Day 3
Woke up early in the morning hoping to go to a famous restaurant for breakfast but it was not opened yet so we went to another great place to dine at. Although it was still as early as 9am, the restaurant is already packed fully that we thought we would have to go elsewhere, until miraculously found 2 tables to fit the 7 of us. They have the normal western breakfast consisting of ham and egg but also awesome stuffs like abalone and ham macaroni.
The past two days we have only took the train around so we decided to try another public transport; The minibus! We took a while to figure out where the bus stop is because there is no obvious sign around, and with no idea where the bus is going to bring us to, we board it. Although we were very excited, the other passengers was like dozing off already. Made a few turns and soon we were back at our mrt station. Somehow it made it seems as if the mrt station was just a few blocks away that is of walking distance.
Arrive at the ferry terminal to get our tickets and we are on our way out of Hong Kong! Nope we are not going home yet but to Macau instead! There is so many operators at the terminal that there is bound to have a ferry that leave every 15min. Most of them will be yelling for you to quickly purchase as its leaving, but you can just ignore them and slowly pick because it wouldnt be long because you will be on deck too.
From there, we randomly picked a shuttle bus and found ourselves in The Venetian, one of the largest hotel in Macau. No doubt it lives up to its reputation with the beautifully decorated interior landscape and the river inside with the venetian boat floating pass. In such wonderland, its time to take out all our cameras and snap away.
There were many restaurants and shops inside too but they are mainly overpriced so we gave them a skip and proceed on to look for our Casino. We went to the Sands to gamble a little but as expected we lost all of our chips to the Casino. Ohwell, we shall take it as some contribution to the electricity and utilities bills there. There were also performances and dances every 30min on their higher end level, so we went up to have a look before departing back to the Venetian for more photos.
The exterior of the Venetian also has some good spots for photo taking. There were many wedding couples having their wedding photos taken around here too.
This is probably some iconic spot within the Venetian because there were many tourists taking photos here too. We joined in the fun and took some photos, including a group shot together.
Having enough fun of the Venetian, we went to look around and we found a bridge. Our couple quickly got into position for their wedding photo which was taken professionally by at least 4 cameras. While they were posing, we moved a dustbin too. Why?
Well, without a tripod, we have to improvise with things around us so we placed our cameras on top of the dustbin while we all pose random poses on the stairs.
More jump shots! We seems to have so much fun that when some passer-bys came by, they decide to take their own jump shots on the same spot too! Just this bridge itself, we transform it into a destination as we spent almost an hour just to take photos there.
Having jumped enough, we proceed on to the famous Egg Tarts which someone proclaimed that we must not give it a miss. Took a cab all the way into the ulu part of Macau and purchased it, only to find out that getting out the place is far more complicated than expected. We waited for forever before a bus came to fetch us back to the main side of Macau with all the hotels.
Back there we realised something; Macau is VERY DESERTED. No ones walk on the street with all the shuttle buses around. The whole land is like a dead man zone where you wouldnt see a trace of life until you get near or in a hotel or casino and you will be transformed into the most crowded place, very much the opposite.
As time tick by, we board our ferry back to Mainland Hong Kong and continue with some shopping and road side food before we head back to our hotel to start packing up as the next day will also sadly be our last day.
