Trip to Macau and Hongkong with Pat and Roger (3)

The second day (29-3) we have visited Coloane Island. Here still quite a lot of nostalgic atmosphere has been preserved. Difficult to imagine that the last assault by South China pirates took place here in 1910. Now everything is quiet, waiting for the assault by real-estate developers?


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Pat and Roger at our luxury 5-star breakfast


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The Port Authority of Coloane, a memorial to the glorious past.


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Now everything is just quiet

Coloane has a very Chinese atmosphere


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A small roadside shrine.


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Doing the laundry


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Another shrine

At the northern and of the Coloane Village there are numerous junk-building sheds. Most of them have fallen in disrepair....


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Coloane is a fishing village.


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One of the shipyards


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Building a miniature junk

The main attraction of Coloane village is the Chapel of St Francis Xavier, built in 1928. It is situated on the village square, surrounded by restaurants.


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Along the seaside promenade


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Village square with the Chapel


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Interior of the Chapel

The Avenida de Cinco de Outubro is a pleasnt seaside promenade


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Time for some exercise


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An old guardhouse. On the other side is mainland China.


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The Chinese cemetery


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Like a modern housing estate

At the end of the village we found the Tam Kong temple, dedicated to the Taoist god of the seafarers. Then it was time for lunch.


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We had lunch in one of the restaurants here.

After our lunch we went back by bus to Macau. There I visited the peaceful Lou Lim Loc gardens.


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Chinese food for lunch


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The Lou Lim Loc gardens


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Beautiful Bonsai trees

The mansion and gardens once belonged to the wealthy Lou family. After my visit I climbed the Guia Hill, where I went looking for a geocache. On my way up I met two guys, Oui and Fritz, who were interested in geocaching, so we searched for the cache together.


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Quiet oasis surrounded by the morder city


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I found the geocache!


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Oui and Fritz in front of the lighthouse

On top of Guia Hill are located the Fort and the Lighthouse. On my way back to the hotel I visited the beautiful St Michael's cemetery.


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The Lighthouse, the oldest in China, first lit in 1865


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View from Guia Hill


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The cemetery of St Michael

In the evening we went out again, Macau by night.


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A traditional Chinese grave in the cemetery!


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Brightly lit shops everywhere.


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Cookies like Chinese Chess pieces!

For our dinner, we had Portuguese food again, with the famous Matheus Rose wine.


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The restaurant where we had our dinner.


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Our dinner


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The Lisboa casino. We had a look inside, but did not play...:-)

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