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I do not like to gamble,
though I've been to a lot of casinos, I just walk and look at it. My friend, we
play together when I was a schoolgirl. They invited us to travel to Macau. They
talking it about a year, and this trip come true.
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When we arrived at the
Macau border, it was 1:00pm. My friend told me, after check
in we went to the hotel for lunch. Fortunately, we live in the Venetian Hotel,
which is not far from the Macau border. The Venetian hotel has transportation
vehicles, from the Macau border to the Venetian, probably take a few minutes.
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Macau is small place, but a lot of
hotels in Macau, each hotel is luxuriously decorated in different styles. Some
of the hotel is the ultimate luxury, superior momentum. It is not so much a
hotel, than it is a palace, a beautiful luxurious palace.
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We live in the
Venetian Hotel in Taipa Island. This is known as the world's largest Building
(Four Seasons Hotel also inside Venetian), the world's second largest casino
(the first in Las Vegas), with 3,000 rooms, 330 shops, 35 food shops. When the
check in, we will receive a map. Looking at this map can make me dizzy.
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When you get to
Macau, why not visit the Venetian Hotel? Venetian Hotel, its exterior and
interior architecture like the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. The Venetian Macao,
it is also based on the theme of Venice. It was built in three sections indoor
artificial waterways. Both sides have 330 boutiques in artificial waterway,
constitute Grand Canal Shoppes. Surrounding waterways covered bridge, building
and stone road, which has characteristics of Venice, where tourists can enjoy
the exotic and leisurely shopping.
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The legendary "Venice", which is an
analog of the Venetian scenes at the Grand Canal Shoppes. Starting from Piazza
San Marco, visit the artificial waterway along the clockwise direction, the
first is the "Grand Canal", followed by "Marco Polo Canal" and
"San Luca Canal", each waterway relatively independent, mutually
unintelligible.
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Boatman singing loudly Naples folk song
"Santa Lucia", his passionate voice and beautiful
melodies reminds me of Santa Lucia Bay beautiful city of Naples, Italy.
"Santa Lucia", which is a Riverboat. It means that a punter invites
guests aboard his boat out to play in the evening breeze, and very popular with
punters alike.
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Wearing a traditional hat tied with a red
ribbon boatman, he single-hand jiggle Gondola, mouth loudly singing Italian
songs "my sun." He sang in Italian, is or not, we do not know. We did
not understand the lyrics, but the tune he sang like the case. Boatman, his
high-pitched voice can be heard all the way, and soon attracted the tourists to
photograph.
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Boatmen have their typical uniforms - black and
white stripe T-shirt, red ribbon tied in a straw hat. Straw hat in the back,
there is a ribbon hanging.
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Piazza San
Marco (St. Mark's Square) in the Venetian hotel, there is a unique landmark -
Clock Tower (Torre dell 'Orologio). The bottom is the subject of an outer disc
has 24 Roman numerals, which represents 24 hours of the day. Intermediate
pointer symbol golden sun, it rotates with the passage of time, pointing to the
corresponding number. Middle circle is the zodiac chart. Most center of the
Earth, on behalf of the center of the universe, turn it around in the sun and
the moon.
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Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square) at the
Venetian hotel, regardless of the weather outside is windy or rainy or thunder,
where the artificial sky is always blue sky, a brilliant scene.
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Venetian, it means both inside and outside the
hotel, where there are many reproductions of Venice. Its main entrance on the
eastern side that "Belfry" is one tall. At the Venetian Hotel
"Grand Canal", "San Marco", "Clock Tower",
outside the hotel "Rialto Bridge", "Government House",
"Bridge of Sighs", "Golden House", "Winged Lion,
"and so on, they are all a symbol of Venice.
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Beside the lake water, where the main entrance
of the hotel, it is a typical Venetian style. If you bent down and looked like
a water pavilion, which like those in residential construction along the Grand
Canal.
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"Rialto Bridge" (Ponte di Rialto), it
is one of the most famous bridge in Venice. And out of the hotel by car are
under the bridge. From the west entrance of Venetian to Rua do Cunha Street
also is gone from the bridge.
In the night came, and large and small casino,
they start to become more beautiful brilliant and hilarious, that numerous changes
out neon colors, like put on a piece of beautiful clothes to Macau.
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