Macau - Oct 2008 (cont)

Goodbye the casino, we visited the Macau Museum.

The road leading to the Museum is made by rocks and is one of the first road of Macau. This road was built by sailors of trading ships from Portugal to Macau. When you step on each rock, you can feel like touching on the history of the last few hundred years, from very beginning of the city...

I visisted the museum many times and I always had special feeling once I went back. On the hill facing to the sea, we enjoyed fresh air under shadow of lot of old trees. Let the wind fondle your face, feel the fragrance of the sea, sunshine of a beautiful autum day, then you will know how happy you are at the moment...

There are canons direct to the sea....

Part of the old fortress, covered with green moss now... They made paths for tourists but till keep the area for us to see how it was, from that days...

This is the famous church with 3 times get fire. The front was built by marble so still there for us to know that used to be a church. It become one of Macau's symbols.

This was used to be rooms of priests, now it was built as rooms with glass to memorise them. 150 peoples died on the last serious fire...

Must say byebye to the Museum and the church, we returned the rock road where has a traditional bakery with very appealled smell calling you step in the shop.

This is a traditional bakery. The fragrance filled your sense of smell...

I wished to jump out of our bus to taste all of eye-catching cakes showing there.

Ah, this is pork barbecue, a specialtity of Chinenese. It is really nice, go well with beer as snack for chit chat at weekend with your friends or lovers.

The babecue is sold at another shop, where is very famous with Husband and Wife cakes. Husband cake is pure sweet meanwhile Wife cake has both sweet and salt taste. They present for love of husband and wife, has both sweet and salt.

The cakes also have very nice legend talking about love of a rich young lady to a poor guy. She came to help the guy to make him rich as what her family ask for if he want to marry her. She cooked cake and sold. The cake was so nice and became famous so, the guy became rich soon. Then he did marry the girl. That is a happy ending love story.

One more special thing form Macau. You can see the road name sign, it is made by ceramic ! It looks strange and clean. I like them more than the plastic sign with boring white and dark blue colours.

Time flies. 3 days passed in a wink. End a very memorable trip.

Bye Macau and Hongkong.

Then ... back to work!