EXPLORING MACAU

This is my first and truly memorable out of the country experience.

Last June, I was given an assigment for Father's Day about an OFW father who works in Macau as a security guard and haven't seen his family since he got there. Of course I couldn't contain my excitement the moment I found out that I'll be flying to Macau. But the catch, I was told that I'm just gonna stay there...OVERNGHT!

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Together with me is my cameraman, Jeff. We flew via Air Asia Airline in Clark International Airport around 7:30am and arrived in Hongkong International Airport close to 10am.

ME UPON ARRIVING AT HONGKONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

It was my first time in Hongkong. Personally, I don't really have plans of going to Hongkong nor Macau. I don't know why.

But what can I say, honestly their airport is huge and clean compared to ours.

We had our breakfast in McDonalds. You might be wondering why we didn't try to eat authentic Hongkong food, well first we're really really hungry and yes we don't have the luxury of time.

After eating, we made our way out of the airport and headed straight to the bus bay and got on a double decker bus to get to the ferry station then cross the sea to get to Macau. The bus ride is approximately an hour or so. The bus fare will cost you HK $40.

The ferry station is jampacked with lots of people mostly Chinese I suppose and some foreigners as well all eager to get to Macau. 

At this point, I thought of smoking so I checked the vicinity for designated smoking areas and fortunately I found one.

 
The ferry trip was a torture. The waves are uneasy and made us all dizzy. And that was a long one hour for me.

FERRY TICKET AMOUNTING TO HK $172

Finally, we arrived in Macau around 1pm. We immediately contacted our OFW daddy and started to get on with our job.

Macau is a small country compared to the Philippines but unlike in our country, (sorry to say this) you can tell that Macau make good use of their people's money. I saw it with my own eyes, with their buildings, their roads and even with their streetlights. no wonder it was dubbed as "Small Las Vegas"

Prior arriving in Macau, I made an initial coordination with my friend Lea who is now living in Macau with her Filipino husband Jeff. We agreed to meet up at the famous ruins of St. Paul, a famous landmark in Macau.

ME AND LEA CORAZON

It was nice seeing Lea. The last time I saw her is when I attended their civil wedding in the Philippines last September of 2012.Our meet up was short but sweet I must say.

THE BUSY STREET OF MACAU

MCDONALDS ION MACAU

  We finished our work at exactly 2:30am. Me and my cameraman were tired, hungry and almost sleepless. Having said that, we got into a 4am ferry trip back to Hongkong so we can catch up with our 9am flight back to Philippines.

ME AND KUYA JEFF AT HONGKONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

My Hongkong and Macau experience is one of a kind. Talk about hitting two birds in one stone. One trip, two countries.