Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Enchanted Macau




on this occasion, i lack of time in planning my trip, maybe because i was not too firmed on the plan of taking vacation; but, after considered that my children had 3 weeks school holiday without going nowhere, i decided to had vacation to places that never been visited by my kids.
i took itinerary to macau-hk-shenzhen-singapore as my children really wanted to visit disneyland and i was too obsessed to take picture in front of ruin of st. paul's church in macau.
thus, on jan 9, i flew to macau via kualalumpur by airasia (for me, airasia always value for money). took off at 8 o'clock in the morning from jkt and landed in macau at 5.15 pm (one hour ahead than jakarta) with 2 hours transitted in lcct, kl.
macau is a serene city with cold yet dry weather; the panorama almost similar to semarang, many hills and upward path. we took taxi and headed to hotel royal which has excellent service and hotel staffs.
all interesting places in macau open in the morning, so we spent the 1st night by having dinner at a-lorcha restaurant, an autentic portugesse restaurant. i ordered their special menu of bacalhau (codfish in cream sauce), african chicken and grilled lamb; all the food served had excellent taste and made me paid MOP 335.6.
the next morning, we had walktour as i would like to pass so many beautiful buildings on our way (most building have european architecture). the 1st building we visited was Monte Fort. inside the fort, other than cannons, i bumped into sight to few old ladies practising sword martial art and i was entertained by watching them :), it more like tai chi than sword martial art.
next to monte fort, downhill, laid Ruin of St. Paul's Church, beauty as expected and thus, made me kept on admiring it as well as felt magic because of its beauty and sacred.. so i accomplished my obsession by taking many pictures in front and inside the ruin.
we continued headed to Largo de Senado and on our way, we stopped by in bakery shop to buy the famous and yummy portugesse egg taart. in Senado square, i entered a church adjacent to Post Office; i forgot the name but this church brought different feeling as you entered others. it was built with european architecture and has wood old-fashioned benches that obviously describes on how old the church is.
after done sightseeing in Senado square, we moved on to A-Ma Temple and this time we walked lil bit further than before without any good sight on our way and.. when we reached A-Ma Temple, i was no longer too excited to explore the place because for me, the most beautiful temple is laid in Bangkok.
we returned to hotel by taxi and started packing our bags to continue our trip to hong kong; luckily the hotel provided free shuttle bus to ferry terminal where we should get on to jetfoil to hong kong.

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