Friday, January 30, 2015

Macau - Asia's Las Vegas (I)

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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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