Journey to Macau

Took Tiger Airways to Macau. The flight was delayed for 2 hours in Changi Airport, due to a problem on the plane and have to change plane! KNS, and I arrived 3pm+ at Macau.

The weather was slightly cool. We check in to the Sintra hotel straight away. After get ride of the luggage to start to explore the island. Walking around is very tire and stressful for the legs!

We covered Senado Square. Have our lunch(noodles) there. We have a few small snacks along the way to Ruins of St. Paul’s. The snack are better than the lunch! Nothing much in St. Paul’s just the leftover from a Big fire many years back, no idea how many centuries are that!

Proceed a long walk to Macau Tower. It is getting dark around 6:15pm when we finally reached there. Hanchen and Bing want to go up the tower (233meters tall), whereas Pheckleng and myself decide to keep our feet on the group and visit the Convention hall instead.

We took a cab to Fisherman’s Wharf around 7:20pm.We walked around the area. It is pretty winding there. The souvenir shops there selling lots of gambling stuffs and have good soft toys there. I am very tempted to buy, but I have no place to put the toys…unless someone wants to adopt them!

We went across to the famous SANDS casino. We have Macdonald dinner there! I hate to take non-local food oversea. Giving the conditions, I have to accept the fact. In fact I took pork burger! Haha…the first non-halal burger ever in a Macdonald for me! The casino is pretty interesting for me to explore, I think the last casino I went in is about 10 years back! We stay for a long while, before we decide to walk over to Casino Lisboa. The latest casino in Macau own by Stanley Ho.

The Casino Lisboa seems so much better in term of appearance – quality compare to SANDS a while back. We walk/see for a while before we retired back to Hotel, which is 3 mins walk back.

Things I experience today that is worth remembering:

Folks here speak Cantonese generally. They do not speak English. Taxi drivers do not know the street name in English/Portuguese. Speaking Mandarin, some can’t speak, but able to understand.

Taxi door cannot be open from inside. The handle is block!The driver decide when to unlock your door!

Luggage in boot will cost $ per bag!

The food here is basically salty compare to Singapore.

Macau use more HK$ than their own MOP. The exchange rate is taken as 1-1, very similar to RMB

There are no MRT in Macau.

Public toilet is free. It is even Aircon and as clean, if not better than Singapore!