Day 2@ St Paul's Ruins

Rise and shine to goody goody breakfast found in the local cafe or Cha Chang Ting

Food is similar or should i say same as Hong Kong Cafe featuring Milk tea, YuanYang (Coffee mixed with tea), egg and luncheon meat sandwich, instant noodle with egg and luncheon meat... and PORK CHOP BUN... literally a piece of pork chop sandwiched by a mini french loaf (bread varies from stall to stall) this is a must must must try if you go to Macau! you can find it in any eatery or roadside stall...


Forgotten to take a pic of the pork chop bun, :( and if you guess it right, that's spaghetti with pork chop for breakfast...

and we took the same route back to St Paul's ruins... the same buildings you saw in day 1 but in daylight....




A little church right in senado square with pretty colours...

And finally St Paul's ruins by day...

Notice the Olympic's Mascot (Fuwa) along the slope leading right up



History of St Paul's Ruins can be found here

And today though only the facade remains, they have an underground museum where religious relics are exhibited....





and so we continue our journey

Day 1 in Macau

Took Singapore's friendly budget airline to Macau Airport.
Customs clearance was pretty straightforward, but it was pretty damn cold for Macau. We have to take a short walk from the plane (yes, no aerobridge) to the entrance of the immigrations.

Took the cab and manage to get to the hotel safe and sound. Cost us about HKD or MOP$60 to get there.

Hotel we stayed during the Trip:
MetroPark Hotel
It was one of a small hotel booked through asiarooms.com
not particularly near to any major landmarks, it's still within walking distance to more known casinos like the Grand Lisboa and New Grand Lisboa. In fact, we can walk all the way from the hotel to Senado Square where most of the attractions are.


The Grand Lisboa Casino



Colourful building with a unique architecture. the bottom part of the building resembles a pineapple or an onion, hehehe

Then, just opposite the Grand Lisboa, there's the Casino Lisboa.
I love this building, the colourful retro lights, so happening!


After that, it was walking all the way to Senado Square, the most touristy place.
Since Chinese New Year was approaching soon, the originally colonial-feel place was decorated with red lanterns. and guess what, the fountain which is originally at the front of the square is covered up with a giant stage! -___-"



Senado Square is somewhat equivalent to Singapore's Orchard Road where all the shopping are. Here you see Bossini, Giordano, 3-storey high Watsons, Sasa and many more.

We walk through to St Paul's ruins, undoubtedly the most most famous landmark in Macau. Don't forget to buy very nice portugese egg tarts to munch! The friendly shop people will offer samples of Bak Gua, Almond biscuits and many more. The "branded" food specialty shop, Koi Kee is also along this road up to St Paul's.

And finally St Paul's ruins! Tada....


Don't you think the picture looks a bit ghostly??? hehe

Last pic for day 1... a view down the slopes from St Paul.. pretty cool pic right?