Macau City and Taipa, Macau Tour (Part 2) – Ni Hao Macau!

Having beer stirred our tired bodies to sleep and readying up for another walking adventure in Macau City. Our plan is to check out the following:

• Have a taste of Macau by eating and drinking in one of their common and local diner.
• Ruins of St. Paul (Ruinas de S. Paulo
• Buy some souvenirs
• See the view at Wynn hotel in day time
• Fisherman’s Wharf
• Taipa Ferry Terminal
• See Venetian Hotel and other Hotels in Taipa or Cotai Strip

We did tour Macau, we didn’t play in their casino. That’s going to be my next target when I come back <hehehe… $$$>. So we listed most of the must see places and tourists spots of Macau. Waking up having a hangover due to the drinking session with our Kababayans, I walked down to the shower lazily. I had the coldest waters running to get rid of my headache. After preparing we lead our way out of the hotel and walked toward 7Eleven where we get some not so cold water and find our way to the Market Place which our Kababayans informed us where we can get some good Macau food. Shockingly the market place was just around Senado Square so we saw Senado Square in the morning and also the church which is under construction at the rear part. Facing the yellow church, to the left is where we came from looking for the market place. The market place was a sheathed in a building, you would only know it’s a market because of some fruit stand and durian’s smell <it stinks and it smells like market when you get in> we headed to the lift and found ourselves at the 3^rd floor. The whole floor of the market place was all food stands or somewhat karenderya and they serve foods that are staple to Macau people. We looked around and found some Filipino who works at Grand Lisboa and they told us to get food on the food stand in front of the escalator and so we did getting ourselves rice meals, a plate of fried curry noodles, a soya tea drink, and a coffee latte drink. The food was good but the drinks and the curry noodles were bests. We rested a bit and walked in a few towards the street signs pointing RUINAS DE S.PAULO. Along the walk we found some meat jerky or commonly known in Macau as bakkwa stores and had tasted a few and they are all mouth-watering. I saw PIGLET was Filleted <sad… L> and I love the spicy pork and spicy pepper beef. We asked information about the souvenirs such as refrigerator magnets, key chains, poker chips, packed bakkwas, etc. but we did not buy anything yet. We were informed that there were some souvenir shops at the Ruins of St. Paul so we walked to the Ruins of St. Paul which our Kababayan call it “Simbahang Putol”. Literally it was named putol because the Ruins of St. Paul has the front wall of the church remained and a little part on the sides. The front wall serves like an arch which was designed with religious icons. At the back part of the ruins there is a staircase going down a crypt where remains of the priors were kept in a stack of glass and wood while a solemn church song was played as a back ground. Once you left the room another door will lead you to the museum which caters numbers of religious figures such as Christ on a cross, the Virgin Mary, some relics, murals, and other religious artefacts. Going out of the museum is a staircase leading you back to the Ruins of St. Paul’s supposedly church’s inner area where you will find on the side a little gallery of the ruins. We left the ruins where we exactly entered and panned left to check the museum. We did not get inside the museum because we no longer have time left to roam before we check out in our hotel. We came across two (2) souvenir stores where we got cheap prices for our key chains, chips, refrigerator magnets, door hangers, car decors, etc.

We went back to hotel and get our stuff then checked out. Our plan was ruined by an unexpected rain. It lasted for about an hour keeping us inside the hotel’s lounge and so we decided to walk under the drizzles as the rain subside and planned to take a bus to the Taipa Ferry but failed not to take a bus because the bus do not accept bills and change for payments just their bus card or whatever it was called. This happens if you have not properly researched the country you are visiting. It ended us taking a cab instead and the driver took us to the Ferry Terminal which was the Maritimo not the Taipa Ferry. We passed through Fisherman’s Wharf as well which was really ruined as what our Kababayan who informed us during our lunch time. Our taxi fare went up to 95MOP and we were able to get to Taipa Ferry safe and sound with no rain clouds above anymore. We bought a 5:30PM trip to Hong Kong. We’ve also found out that there is no waiting area in the terminal so we decided to take the free bus ride of Venetian Hotel and decided to follow through what has been scheduled.

It was a short ride going to the hotel and we were informed that the bus going back to Taipa Ferry is at the west wing so I abruptly get inside the hotel with my luggage and took some pictures inside the hotel then proceed to the information counter where I spoke with another Kababayan named Joven at the front desk and asked where we can leave our baggage for the mean time and pick them up at the west wing before 5 PM. Joven pointed me to the baggage service on the opposite side of their desk and talked to the baggage counter personnel <I think I spoke with their supervisor because he does not want us to leave our baggage there instead proceed to the west wing to leave our stuff.> I went back to Joven and informed him what their personnel told us and he gave us confirmation that we can now leave our stuff on the same desk. I just informed the personnel that we will pick up our baggage at the west wing and they serviced us appropriately then asked what time we will pick our baggage up. Gave him about 4 PM just to be ready then we started roaming outside Venetian Hotel up to the Conrad’s after we got our baggage counter stickers.

It was passed 4 when we decided to go and get our stuff on the west wing which was really a long walk from the main entrance. We passed through the hotel’s casino area and the dinosaur exhibit showing a huge T-Rex skeleton standing under the chandelier. The walk made us hungry so we decided to look for something to eat and drink which lead us to getting a Pepper Sausage at 10MOP and a coffee for me at 12MOP while Ikay and Kambal shared over a Coke at 16MOP. After stuffing our stomachs we took our baggage and went to the bus going to Taipa Ferry. We arrived 30 minutes early at the terminal and waited more outside before we were advised to get in and ready for boarding.

Upon boarding ends our short but fun and full of surprised Macau Trip. Thanks for following and reading this article. Just leave a comment or email me whenever you have any question about my trips such as budget, where to go, and the likes. Please visit my blogsites http://travelingwithyu.blogspot.com or http://travelingwithyu.wordpress.com, like my page at www.facebook.com/travelingwithyu , and/or follow me in twitter @travelingwithyu.

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