Well...that was quite a while ago so I might forget bits of here and there, plus it's hard to squeeze everything in 1 post...but I guess pictures say a thousand words right =)
First stop was Macau. We arrived around evening, so we went to a place not far from our hotel, called The Venetian, to have dinner and a look around. And it has a reason for being named 'The Venetian'....
We were first amazed by this virtual mermaid and she looked really real!
The Venetian is a big building complex that has hotels and resorts, and it is linked to another building called City of Dreams where there are casinos and shop outlets. But more importantly, The Venetian, as its name implies, has several 'internal' canals and a beautiful blue sky!
And of course nice boats too.... you can have even take the boat ride =)
The taxi driver who took us to the Venetian from our hotel told us that there would be a free dragon and lights show at the City of Dreams. Thanks for the tip sir, it was really a wonderful lights performance!!
The next morning we followed our tour guide who took us around Macau city.
The next morning we followed our tour guide who took us around Macau city.
There were so many people in front of this famous landmark of Macau but we were lucky to be able to take a family picture =)
Who would forget the famous Portugese egg tarts when you are in Macau?
These were great!
It was only a short while in Macau....we took the ferry in the evening across to Hong Kong on the same day after touring around the city of Macau~ luckily we were just in time for the ferry!
It was quite late by the time we reached Hong Kong, and our tour guide from HK brought us to our hotel and discussed our schedule for the next few days. We stayed at Kowloon near Temple Street, it's a place like Petaling Street where there're lots of stalls selling many kinds of things....so dinner and short shopping for us that night =)
Toured around HK city the next morning. Our tour guide was a very experienced and interesting lady, she told lots of jokes and stories during our journey, and also about the local culture and differences with Malaysian culture...from dining etiquette to daily living to cars and houses....oh yea, don't expect that you will have a spacious room when you stay in HK hotel (unless you book a suite?)...HK is an island and so don't really have much land, all the buildings are many many storeys high, hence apartments are common - you rarely see houses like terrace houses or bungalows or semi-D there unlike in Malaysia.
The beautiful night lights of Christmas greeted us when we arrived HK
It was quite late by the time we reached Hong Kong, and our tour guide from HK brought us to our hotel and discussed our schedule for the next few days. We stayed at Kowloon near Temple Street, it's a place like Petaling Street where there're lots of stalls selling many kinds of things....so dinner and short shopping for us that night =)
Toured around HK city the next morning. Our tour guide was a very experienced and interesting lady, she told lots of jokes and stories during our journey, and also about the local culture and differences with Malaysian culture...from dining etiquette to daily living to cars and houses....oh yea, don't expect that you will have a spacious room when you stay in HK hotel (unless you book a suite?)...HK is an island and so don't really have much land, all the buildings are many many storeys high, hence apartments are common - you rarely see houses like terrace houses or bungalows or semi-D there unlike in Malaysia.
Landmark of HK...the golden flower
Remember this place when you watch TVB drama series?
Remember this place when you watch TVB drama series?
Went to the temple near Repulse Bay beach after that.
Arena of Stars in the evening!
I developed this photo and brought to Melbourne, someone (Miss Wong!) who saw this photo thought that I actually met her in person!
Kelly Chen~ one of my favourite HK artists =D Same surname, birth month and zodiac as me!
Went to Ngong Ping village in the morning/noon, have to take the cable car to reach that place
Main highlight of Ngong Ping village is the big Buddha statue
We took a train to get there... it's a special train to Disneyland ONLY!
Main entrance
Christmas Parade....I'm still amazed by the decoration and every single detail of them
The castle!
Even the candy floss is in a Mickey shape!
Arena of Stars in the evening!
And guess what next.... Madame Tussads!!!!
I developed this photo and brought to Melbourne, someone (Miss Wong!) who saw this photo thought that I actually met her in person!
Kelly Chen~ one of my favourite HK artists =D Same surname, birth month and zodiac as me!
On the last day of 2009...
Went to Ngong Ping village in the morning/noon, have to take the cable car to reach that place
Main highlight of Ngong Ping village is the big Buddha statue
We were rushing time actually because of some delay with other tourists (who shared the same tour bus as us) in the morning....sigh, otherwise we could have spent more time in our final destination.... DISNEYLAND!!
We took a train to get there... it's a special train to Disneyland ONLY!
Main entrance
It was already about 3pm when we reached Disneyland. Thankfully the parade just started not long ago.
Christmas Parade....I'm still amazed by the decoration and every single detail of them
After watching the parade we went for some rides. Fun and thrilling!!
The castle!
Even the candy floss is in a Mickey shape!
At night we watched the spectacular fireworks....the last day of 2009 =)
Obviously there were more pictures and a lot more things that I could talk about and a single blog post won't do enough, but this shall do =)
Obviously there were more pictures and a lot more things that I could talk about and a single blog post won't do enough, but this shall do =)
Oh, my sisters and I bought these cute little things as souvenirs:
Which one have you got? *wink wink*
