Maco Museum – KevinJamesNg

Before settings out onwards to the Fortaleza do Monte also Senado square… there was one place that was outside the central older neighborhooding sections of Macau square there was one site of interest it’s The Kun Lam Tong-Ecumenical Center in which sits off at 1101 Avenida de Sun Yat-sen In which is located off land on artificial island interconnecting with a sixty meter long causeway bridge… in which the bronze 32 meters tall Kun Lam Tong- Goddess of Mercy statute is only not facing the sea, or harbour.. In which is facing the shoreline.. In which facing the ocean will bring good luck to sailors whom traveling onwards to sea…

Arriving in the morning before setting outwards to the Senado Square walking up to in before lunch is the towards the Causeway bridge that’s leading up towards the Ecumenical Center, in which the center serves as an educational center with a library also a moderate size convention center to house events in which of various cultures in accumulating them together..

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The Buddhist, Taoist Chinese Painting works inspired me, in how to see the many layers of different tones of painting drawn out with each every layer of brushwork brings out a story within the whole storyline.. As the different tones of colours bring life out from those painted stories on like on textures that helps to date it back on the many Buddhist cave Grottoes that can be found among the Old Silk roads in which during those time many Buddhist cave Grottoes are detailed illustrated with gorgeous carvings with paintings.. in which you could see the various elements of Buddhism and Taoism fusion together in merging many philosophies together..

A gorgeous fine late morning that radiant the – Kun Lam Tong- Temple of the Goddess of Mercy of it’s fifty bronze panels…

The Ecumenical Center, is innovated modern… in which the base of the structure is designed with a white lotus petal inspirational hall in which people can rest while rest within the round hexagon setting arrangement like in the Taoist nature … while observing the illustrations within the round ceiling walls.. With Buddhist also with Taoist inscriptions collections of art works with focusing on Buddha, Lao Tse, and Confucius… the round walls within the Ecumenical Center walls are designed with harmony as with the them Taoist white black Ying Yang apporachment, in which the focuses on the Eight Trigram seating while observing the “Thought from both from the Occident and the Orient”….

Among the galleries inside the – Kun Lam Tong- Ecumenical Center in which marveling at the construction work on the inside also the outside with the fifty bronze casting paneling that makes up the structure like how the big Buddha is constructed at Lantau island.. The views of its surroundings of Macau Tapa island shore land with impressive adjacent bridge engineering of in between Governddor Norbre de Carvaho Bridge also it other in parallel of Pte, da Amizade in which viewing from the causeway bridge..

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As a walkable adjacent to hill wise to the Ruins of St. Paul’s is the hill side Portuguese fortification of, – Fortaleza do Monte in which is adjacent to only fifty meters away.. in which walking the historically steps of Mount Hill.. In which those steps aside has old as the Ruins of St. Paul Church, in which you have to be respectable in this area as you walk up wards in beginning of the steps, is also an extension graveyard crypt of the Church… also the fort provides a protection of the St. Paul’s Church below..

Walking up among those historical stone stairs in which leads up towards a modern escalator, in which midway leading towards modern visitor center in which show case along the way the historical significant of place.. In which in the center is the Maco Museum, as below the stair ways there’s a small market square space in which selling souvenirs….

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As walking onwards outside of the Fortaleza do Monte, I could see the all-encompassing view of layers of Macau city neighborhood landscape… as its history unfolds with all the cannons gunnery emplacements readiness in defending the fort also the Church of Saint Paul’s below, tactically placed to with one of its Alarming bells to signal the fort….. Looking around in the fort the main fortifications seeming the fort operations seeming it covers all sides of protecting the township below…

as looking into the distance Macau skyline transition from older traditionally to new with a crystal skyline towers..

Looking in the distance is Mainland China, across the Harbour one of heaviest patrol Harbors in the world with constant patrol boats patrolling in between sides of Macau –SAR each Border patrolling on their partaking… as walking to one placement of the cannons looking at the older casinos of Macau, with that 1950’s retro last Vegas look… in that area where its modernized with wider roads, than the older Macau road in which was designated for horses carriages in those days, now those roads are now replaced with scooters with smaller cars to get around in with alley way streets in which you have to drive one way in which you’ll have to know the street outlining pretty well in which Google maps helps..

Looking in the distance with the Harbour channel in view this part of the city is defending within the capable outline of the cannon emplacements especially from the Harbour in those days still the Harbour also the river way…..

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