kathangisip travelogue » Macau http://kathangisip.com traveling in budget Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:03:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Video of Gondola ride performance in the Venetian http://kathangisip.com/2009/08/video-of-gondola-ride-performance-in-the-venetian/ http://kathangisip.com/2009/08/video-of-gondola-ride-performance-in-the-venetian/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:14:35 +0000 japanesecake http://kathangisip.com/?p=2062 Here is a video of the gondola ride in the Venetian, Macau. The person operating the gondola are actually professional singers, and part of the ride is a serenade from them.

This particular singer actually looks like a Pinoy, and he’s the only one who got claps and praises in the audience, how about that?

Check out the details of our tour in the Venetian here: The Venetian

]]> http://kathangisip.com/2009/08/video-of-gondola-ride-performance-in-the-venetian/feed/ 1 The Venetian performers video http://kathangisip.com/2009/08/the-venetian-performers-video/ http://kathangisip.com/2009/08/the-venetian-performers-video/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:51:46 +0000 japanesecake http://kathangisip.com/?p=2066 During our visit in Macau’s the Venetian. Part of the amusement there was opera performance by different artists. On this video, is a ‘princess-like’ opera singer, singing Hark the Herald. We came there after new year ’09 and it’s just perfect for the season.

Video and narration by Jeff.

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Inside the Venetian in Macau

This post is part of our itinerary in Macau. For the complete itinerary view here: Macau itinerary

This spot wasn’t coming up during my search of tourist spots in Macau. Luckily Jeff found this and we immediately altered our itinerary for this one.

How to go there

From our walking tour in Macau, we went back to our hotel to get the free service going to the Venetian. It took us about 15 minutes to get there.

Every minute, there are buses and tourists arriving at the Venetian. At the entrance, there were two lines going in, we think the other line leads to the ferry ride going to China. Were not really sure, just be careful what line you get in. :)

What to See

The Venetian is actually a hotel/casino, so at the entrance is the reception for people wanting to stay there. We on the other hand, just followed the flock of people walking in.

The Venetian is such a fancy place, the aura is gold, the designs are gold, everything is gold. In fact, the pictures on this post are not altered. It’s really that ‘gold’ in there.

It’s so fancy that just on the hallway near the entrance, are huge chandeliers decorating their ceilings.

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Chandeliers in the Venetian

Every area has a unique ceiling design, including this one from the casino area, inspired by Roman paintings.

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Painting ceilings in the venetian, Macau

And every step we took were cushioned in soft, red carpets. Ipa felt so small in there.

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Carpeted floors in the Venetian

The highlight of this place is the actual Venice replica inside the hotel. Actually, only the second floor of the replicas are Venetian-inspired. The ground floors are occupied by high-end stores like Louie Vuitton, Gucci, Versace, all that fancy stores. The fanciest store we went in was Marks and Spencer, haha. Shopping wasn’t really our goal there anyways, we want to prepare our money for Hongkong.

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stores in the Venetian

There are surprise performance every now and then in the Venetian. We went there January 3, after new year, so I’m not sure if its a regular feature there.

One surprise performance we caught, was from this opera singer singing some Christmas song.

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Performers in the Venetian

There’s also the copied gondola ride in this Venice canal replica. The ride costs 85 mop per gondola, which includes an hour of ride, and a free opera serenade from the Gondola operator. And no, we didn’t ride the gondola, it’s too cheesy. :P

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the Gondola

After which, we walked around more to look for the actual casinos. I was excited to do some games there, and the fact that Jeff is lucky, made me want to play more.

We took pictures from the second floor first before getting in the casino area. Picture taking from where the casino is, is not allowed. I was still able to take some pics though, I mean there’s no sign whatsoever that it’s not allowed, and there were like a hundred of us snapping pics. I only knew of this rule when I saw some guard asking the tourists beside us not to take pictures. I simply covered my camera with my lens cap.

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The circle where the casino is

Since Jeff and I never played casino. We didn’t understand the game, we stopped at one slot machine to read the rules of the game, but we were told not to stay too long in the machines. In short, I got annoyed with how tight the security is in the casino, we decided to scrap that.

Jeff and I then went to the food court to grab some dinner. We just went with where everyone was eating. After the dinner, we stayed for a while until the bus service going back to our hotel arrived to pick us up.

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Food Court in the Venetian

At the end of our Day 2 trip in Macau, we were both very satisfied and very tired tourists. We’ll definitely go back there, given the time and the money. :P

Check out our gallery for more pictures of the Venetian. There are not enough words to describe how pretty it was, so let our pictures do the talking.

Fees and Fares of this tour

None

More pictures of the Venetian and Macau here

(click on the picture to view the album)

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]]> http://kathangisip.com/2009/07/the-venetian-macau/feed/ 15 St. Anthony’s Church, Protestant Cemetery and Camoes Garden in Macau http://kathangisip.com/2009/07/st-anthony%e2%80%99s-church-protestant-cemetery-and-camoes-garden-in-macau/ http://kathangisip.com/2009/07/st-anthony%e2%80%99s-church-protestant-cemetery-and-camoes-garden-in-macau/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:31:05 +0000 japanesecake http://kathangisip.com/?p=2011

A wall of tombs, and a very creepy well at Protestant Cemetery

How to go there

From Ruins of Saint Paul, Jeff and I took a bus going to Saint Anthony’s church.

This post is part of our trip in Macau. For the complete itinerary, check out this link here: Macau itinerary

What to See – Saint Anthony’s church

After a whole day of touring Jeff and I arrived at Saint Anthony’s about 5 pm. It’s a good thing we were still early, as it would suck taking pictures at night, and lots of people walking around in your shots. :P We just took pictures of Saint Anthony’s from across the street from the bus stop.

Saint Anthony's church in Macau

 

Camoes Garden

A few steps to the left of the bus stop, is Camoes Garden. We went in there, and took some pictures. It’s definitely a local park in Macau, there were lots of old people and families resting at the spots of the park.

Camoes Garden

 

 

From inside, we looked for Casa Garden which according to my itinerary is just within the vicinity. There were street signs pointing to Casa Garden but we decided not to visit that anymore. We need to get back to catch the bus service going to the Venetian, we figured Camoes Garden would be very similar to Casa Garden.

Protestant Cemetery

Just beside the entrance of Camoes Garden is the Protestant Cemetery. Entrance to Protestant Cemetery is in this yellow-colored wall.

Inside were tombs, arranged in a garden-like design, as seen below.

Protestant cemetery Macau

 

Fees and Fares of this tour

Bus Fee from Ruins of Saint Paul to Saint Anthony’s: About 3 MOP

More pictures of Macau here:

(Click on the picture to view the album)

]]> http://kathangisip.com/2009/07/st-anthony%e2%80%99s-church-protestant-cemetery-and-camoes-garden-in-macau/feed/ 6 Video of Ruins of Saint Paul http://kathangisip.com/2009/07/video-of-ruins-of-saint-paul/ http://kathangisip.com/2009/07/video-of-ruins-of-saint-paul/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:52:35 +0000 japanesecake http://kathangisip.com/?p=2056 Here is a video of our tour in Ruins of Saint Paul, showing tons of people visiting the place. Jeff seemed to be in a different place though, he kept saying that we were in St. Peters. I deleted that part of the vid, cause our face was on it, hehehe.

Also in this video, you can see Na Tcha Temple, Section of the Old City Walls and the big pineapple-shape building of Casino Lisboa.

Video and narration by Jeff. :)

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