As the skies opened in torrent, we moved onwards to our next destination which was Macau's most significant symbol : the ruins of St Paul or Dai Sam Ba in Cantonese. It was raining quite heavily now and everyone was either donning a rain coat or having an umbrella in their hands. Taking photographs with an umbrella with one hand and a 1kg DSLT in another proves quite challenging as I did not bring along my camera strap for this trip. It is also here that I realised that I have forgotten to bring my battery charge so I only had 2 batteries for the next 4 days and I had to really conserve and squeeze every juice out of it. For the record I managed to take almost 1000 shots including a 2 minute full HD video using the a77.
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| 傾盆大雨 @@ |
Since it was raining quite heavily, the skies were very dull and gloomy, which was kind of reflected in the photos. There's nothing much of interest at the ruins here unless you are a very historical person who wants to know what was the purpose of this structure.
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| The iconic Macau Hotel's in the far background |
Going down the stairs brings you the St Paul streets which reminded me of Korea's
Myeongdong and
Namdaemun in a way. There are a lot of shops and eateries here for tourists to shop and eat around while enjoying the cooling wind, especially in the evening. I only explored this area on my last day back in Macau in an extremely rushed manner and I will certainly come back here to visit again at a slower pace.
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| The ruins at a lower angle |
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| Christmas in the air |
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| Ironic |
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| Rose church |
There seems to be only one souvenir shop in this area and I bought some casino look alike chips for my friends and some other goodies. The chips were relatively cheap. only 40HKD for 12 pieces. Oh by the way, you could use Hong Kong dollars in Macau as well instead of Macau dollars as their value are roughly the same. Some shops even accept China's Ren Min Bi but the exchange rate is much higher.
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| Souvenirs galore |
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| Tourists everywhere! |
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