Sunday was a bit of an adventure! Starting out at International Christian Assembly in Macau, I took a trek through the center of city life near the Grand Lisboa on Macao Island, then grabbed a bus to the restive zoo in Cotai. After watching the pandas and munching on some snacks at the zoo snack shop, I moved on to the nearly-deserted Hac Sa Beach and went hiking along the ocean to the Westin resort before catching the bus back to the Venetian Macau for the Carnival Parade and the conclusion to the 2011 Venetian Macau Carnival. Ahhh, so tired, but also quite fun!
Local toy and food store by the beach
Final day of the 2001 Venetian Macau Carnival (left). The Venetian after the fact (right)
Art display on the first floor of the Tribunal Judicial de Base.
Pandas at the Seac Pai Van Park in Macao! When a Canadian girl at church told me about the giant pandas the mainland had given to Macau, I made sure to add that to my itinerary! It was soo worth it. When I arrived, the pandas were doing what pandas always seem to do... sleep. A few minutes later, and they both woke up and began romping and playing around. Soon, they exited the enclosure via a door in back, and then a grounds crew came out to lay fodder for the hungry bears. A short while later, the bears were full, and I had dozens of pictures and HD video of the pandas! They seem very soft and furry. What surprised me the most was that the bears seemed to grasp the bamboo shoots with their paws, using them almost like hands, they then collected the greenery and avoided the tougher yellow bamboo shoots. The official website can be seen here, but you'd better be able to read Chinese!
Hac Sa Beach, the black sand beach on Coloane Island (that's a Westin in the distance, I've heard up and down reports about the resort itself, but it's supposed to have a good golf course!)
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