YYEESS! another stamp in the passport! After a 1 hour ferry from Hong Kong to Macau I waited in customs in Macau for about 50 minutes looking at my watching thinking I'm going to be late for my bungy jump booking off the Macau tower. Once through customs I quickly got a taxi to the tower and made it on time. Straight up to the 61st level into my harness and before you knew it I was standing on the edge of the 10th highest building in the world with the wind blowing like crazy! It's a overwhelming feeling standing on the edge of a building about to jump off off and descend 233m to the ground with only a bungy cord! But I love that feeling! 5,4,3,2,1 and off I went! once again I had the feeling of control on the way down and pretended I was in a James Bond film haha. I think the free fall was around 10 or so seconds.. I've got a DVD but will have to show you when I get back to NZ as I don't know how to convert it to a file that I can upload.
Once I went back up to collect my belongings and had a look around the observation deck I made my way to the Venetian Casino. The good thing about Macau is that there are free shuttles that run all the time so you can just jump on them. The Venetian is MASSIVE! I was reading about it and they have over 24,000 staff on at peak times! I walked in and was just blowen away by the share size of the place. There's a shopping area and a canal that runs through the shopping complex with boats etc in there.
Finally I found the food hall and got a chicken katsu curry (for those who know... I love it!) but it doesn't compare to wagamama's back home! After continuing to explore this building I looked at my watch and it was 4.30pm! I didn't know where time had gone and the last ferry back was at 7pm but I wanted to be back in Hong Kong by then. Anyway to cut a long story short I found another free shuttle back to the ferry terminal and got on a ferry.
When I got back to Hong Kong on my way home after a long complicated process I finally got to speak to Candice for the first time since I've been away! Was nice to hear her voice despite the bad reception and massive delay :-P
I got back to Shelley's around 7pm and as it my last night in Hong Kong Shelley and I decided to go out for dinner again but this time just went to a local place down the road, but a nice way to end the trip Shelley took me to this really nice Yoghurt place near her house - Candice and Anna - GET HER TO TAKE YOU THERE WHEN YOU COME!! it's sooooo nice! and they were playing daft punk! I got a boysenberry, strawberry and mango frozen yoghurt with grapes, kiwifruit and blueberrys on top :-) DEVINE!
Well that concludes my stay in Hong Kong! I would just like to thank Shelley for putting me up for the last week! it's been awesome to catch up and see her! I feel like there is so much more I could do and see but have just run out of time due to the 7's taking up 2 full days.
Next Stop... LONDON
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Mean joe!! cant wait to see all of the places that you have been talking about!.... well majority!
ReplyDeleteand yes i will get shelley to take us to that yoghurt place. sounds Awesome
ps dont ask about the user name. i tried to change it but it changed back to this?! WTF??