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…..
As driving away from the Church of Lady of Penha in São Lourenço Macau, with my tour guide, in which the next stop is the old City town square in which is Sendo Square or known as Senate Square, in which is quite iconic due to the beach wave paved tile square…… In which back in during 16th to 18th century the town square it was a major town meeting place of the people of Macau, for Chinese also the Portuguese… The Square was named after Leal Sendo – Loyal Senate in translation from Portuguese… in which the various parts of the senate was based on the collective of Parishes as I was told..
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The centric location of the square is the centuries old buildings in connects to various parts of the triangularly as the area goes in which its centuries old vitalized neighborhood district joins with the other districts of Largo do São Domingos at one end and Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro…… as it was a center ground as a meeting place, also it’s a place of commerce in which the shopping has evolved from its traditional old school to more now more of mainstream shopping local to international brands that have taken over the last few decades slowly while still retaining its original character of how it was long ago as I walked towards the street endings in which I could sense it’s retracing its history back building by building, layer by layer there are still the old school stores that are around as exploring the architecture nature of the Senado has a lot of Italian, Vienna, Spanish, Portuguese influences collectively with a mixture of Chinese influences in which I could see in culinary that I’ve been for lunch in a Portuguese restaurant call Dom Galo restaurant in which there are two one at Calçada do Tronco Velho, n 10, the other that I ate in at Av. Sir Anders Ljungstedt, n 36 G/F, AF-AG…… as I tasted each dish that I’ve ordered, I could see how those influences are brought within Macau’s culinary dishes together in fusion within all those cultures that history residing in Macau also in relation to its layered by layer architecture..
as Macau grows so does its evolutionary architecture in which is heavily influence by it’s Portuguese past..
As walking around the Sendo Square, I was how amazed that how vibrate the colours are around the place, with sunny yolk yellows, white Portuguese walls, also how clean the streets are even the side streets shopping alleys are also clean aswell.. As walking on those white and black tile pavements streets. In which the those streets with white tiles pavements in which line up to various streets to in out of the Sendo Square is also the linking tight alleys streets that leads up to the to another iconic place in Macau.. The weather battered harden 17th century church of St. Paul in Santo António in which is another Macau’s center square…
Taylor Swift follows me around, well whenever I walk, travelling around places that I know, adventuring her music does, her song often follows me around, in this case as I was walking out from the Peak tram into the Victoria Peak Mall- The Peak Galleria.. In which her music keeps following me all the way through the afternoon… As I walk onwards from the top from the Tram terminal… Is the entrance into The Peak Galleria Mall in which is situated on top of the summit that adjoins connecting towards the Peak Tower…
As I was walking out from the Tram terminal section into The Peak Tower shopping complexin which the first section that I’ve walking into is more a self-contained version of the tidy Temple Street Night markets- The Peak Markets in which the atmosphere almost felt the same with the real thing across the Victoria Harbour… As walking through the self-contained version of Temple Street also ladies market, from there within has the Official Souvenirs Boutique. , in finding the way out then finding away into the main lobby of the Peak Tower Mall, in which the mall was aerated with lots lighted window absorbing the outside views of surroundings views in from the views from all the distance views from Central beyond towards cityscape outlines of Tsim Sha Tsui as you could see the building through the enormous window building wall the two towers the IFC then the ICC extensively to the mountains of New Territories…..
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Making ways towards the outside towards the top of the building to it viewing platform in which the views are breath taking remarkable than viewing Auckland from the Sky tower, in which the more Organic One Tree Hill is the best choice with more of it natural surroundings.. the Victoria Peak Tower Mall offers in which best of both worlds of that in which the roof top platform- The Sky Terrace 428 overview in which 428 meters above sea level.. Adjacently down the building is in combination with it’s or it older oriental traditional modern Qing Dynasty Chinese pavilion counterpart …..
It takes a several flights off elevators in in reaching the many opens space layers of floors of shopping to get to the roof view platform… In which I could basically spend hours in taking with breath taking views encompassing all of Hong Kong, in which Given that I had an interesting Cannon camera I could take some interesting angled landscaping, street views.. From afar…..there are several features within the Victoria Peak Tower, like the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, in which features many extreme detail wax works with various Hollywood and local mainland celebrities, also movie characters…
That Iconic Hong Kong view from that Iconic Nine Lions Pavilion with those modern Ming Dynasty garden pavilion elements that witnesses to untold stories..
On the viewing platform there are various sides of looking at Hong Kong in which you’ll see the transition from the more serenity less to the intense populated side of Hong Kong Island in looking out in the scenic mountainous bays distance of Kellet- Telegraph- Pok Fu Lam’s Sandy Bay…
From viewing the other platform is The Victoria Peak Galleria, in which is closely adjacent of Peak Tower is another mall in which has a self-contained museum with various eateries, restaurants… from the outside there’s an older Trams. In which exhibits what the tram looks back in the older days, where walking inside even its converted with that minty white interior metical paint, into a visitor centre, in which as I enter inside the cabin in the train I could see some sense of history with the relics of mechanisms, installation gears of that era of that time..
looking from the the Lion Pavilion, looking at the all encompassing history that ever so writing untold stories of Hong Kong ……
As walking out from the minty white green line livery tram visitors centre, I noticed something down the walking tracks of Findlay Road, in which is something Iconic is call The Lion’s Pavilion.. In which has the hallmarks of a traditional Chinese Ming Dynasty modern Pavilion viewing platform in which… has nine unique styles hand crafted lions, none that look the same looking at different key points of Hong Kong. The lion Pavilion has an awesome viewing position that encompass the urban side of the island also looking towards the New territories mountain hills.. in which is elegantly structured with white marble or concrete with Ming Dynasty masonry works, the pavilion is painted with maroon red, not that type of maroon red purple that can found on the walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing…..
