Macau Trip

Sometimes, things happen when we least expect it. Or more often, things that are not planned are that things that really do happen. Just like when I had an on the spot vacation in Macau! Whoah, I never thought I could go there when I didn't even had money at all. (well, thanks to my sponsors! lol)

So, here I am, travelling again. Well, it's one of the most favorite thing that I wanna do, next to falling in love. (hehe)....

So I went to China with my siblings and my close friend, Janet. It was actually my first time to go abroad with my siblings. So, it was quite exciting! My brother had been there last year, so at least we had a tour guide.

So fastforward to the trip. When we reached the Macau International airport, I was expecting that we would have a dilemma on how we would be understood by the people (chinese) again. And true enough, they hardly could not speak english. So here's some encounters we had:

At the bus:
We had no idea how to get to the hotel so we were waiting for a taxi. After few minutes, a Filipino approached us and said, "sumakay na lang kayo ng bus na may sign na A1." So we followed his instruction. When we reached the bus, I was figuring out how are we going to pay. Then I saw a small can with a sign in chinese and spanish. The only thing that I could understand was "exacto". I pressumed, it meant exact fare. Oh no, our currencies were all in bills. I was talking to the driver, "do you have a change for 20 pattaca?/macau dollar?" He was shouting... I thought it was just his nature of talking. Later, a chinese woman said, "here, I will pay for you." I was so grateful. But the problem is, we need to pay for  4 persons. nakakhiya nmn masyado kung lahat un ipapalibre ko sa babae. So I said, "how????" The driver continued to shout!!!! I was so scared. I handed over my bills to the woman. I could not understand what they were talking about but all I knew was he was mad. Finally, the woman paid for us and I gave her my bill... Whoah! we were shocked.... as in culture shocked! I never knew that they could be so RUDE!

At the Hotel Reception:
I said, "Miss, we have reserved 2 rooms in this hotel already. What time are we suppose to check in?" She was staring at me blankly. I don't think she understood, basta nag sign language nlng sya...(wtf?! I just thought, hotel crews should know how to speak in english for the fact that they are dealing mostly with tourists and foreigners right? tsk tsk)

At the Taxi:
So this was the most crucial. All taxi drivers were just mute. Some of them could not even understand the place that we were talking about. Good thing we always had a guide book with us and show them the pictures of the place. wahhh, nakakaloka!

At the Market:
My sister was trying to change her money to macau dollar. Then suddenly, the counter girl shouted at her, "1 DOLLAR!!!!!"""" so kelangan manigaw?

Wala lang, I admit the place was super nice. But then, I just believe that there's still no better people than Filipinos when it comes to respect and vallues. I don't know why these people are so ill-mannered..

Too much about the bad vibes. Let's fast forward to the goodies that we had. First destination was the VENETIAN.

It was a.... WHOAH!!! Amazingly, beautiful! I was so eager to ride the Gondola, the boat that was immitated in Venice. However, I just thought that it would be more romantic if I would be with someone special and it would be in the real Gondola, VENICE! So for the meantime, I just indulged with the beautiful attractions all over. Afterwards, we went to the "City of Dreams" just beside the venetian.

We watched an awesome show. 'The Dragons"

On our second day, we went to their market. And I bought stuffs, and pasalubong. We also had witnessed some pictorials for the weddings. And it was so beautiful. We as much as possible, tried their Chines cuisines. However, we always end up in Mcdonald's instead. un lang nakakabusog eh. hehe

So that's 711 at my back, the only store that sells familiar things (at least for us)

We then went to the museums...

And then we took pictures. The good thing was, the Gurads were Filipinos and they were very accommodating. Now finally, we encountered REAL people. hehe

After the museum, we went back to the hotel and freshened up. We want to see Macau at night so we need to recharge for the night.

At 5pm, we then went to Wynn Hotel. We walked and walked and took pictures. We then decided not to eat at Mcdonalds anymore and buy anything with rice. We found Circle K. There we bought our food. We were wondrin where to eat our food so we decided to eat at the park, while waiting for the night and the lights.

And this was a 7-pm view from the park (with my friend, Janet). We were so impatient coz 7pm na eh maliwanag pa din. Well, the view was wonderful, anyway.

So finally, the dim light!!! We were so excited to witness the Asian's Las Vegas!!! It's in the Grand Lisboa, the largest Casino in Macau.

yeah, yeah...It was worth the wait! Beautiful indeed....However, we were already tired so after we took picyures and got amazed with the view, we went back to the hotel....

I know it was not a long stay. However, I guess a 3 day stay at Macau was just enough for their tourist spots.  There were other spots we went though like The Grand prix, Wine Museum, The Ruins, and lastly, the Fisherman's Wharf.

This was the last but the last spot we went. And we were glad to see the replica of Coliseum in Rome.

Over all, it was a wonderful vacation. My stress and worries flew away for a while. And then again, I got inspired to travel more. See u on my next trip!