Happy New Year everyone! It’s officially 2020 and the start of a new decade. My aunt and I spent a few days in Macau during the New Year. I’ll be separating this blog by Malls/Casinos, Food, and the Panda Pavilion. You can scroll to whichever part you want to hear about most!
Shopping and Casinos
For those that don’t know, Macau is full of casinos. They’re literally everywhere you go. My aunt and I don’t gamble, but attached to the casinos were malls and hotels, so we did explore those. Each casino had a grand lobby, and a few of them had some incredible lobby shows! I can’t post videos on here, but my aunt and I did post some on Instagram. Here are some pictures of them though:
Very awkward picture of me waiting for the lobby show to start while wearing my backpack on my front to prevent anything getting stolen 😅
One of the two lobby shows at the Wynn is this golden tree coming up out of the floor, twirling and changing color.
All of the malls/casinos had a lot of cool displays in them. Here are pictures:
This giant lion sits just outside of the MGM hotel/casino.
This piece of art is by Salvador Dalí and is called the Dalinian Dancer. It is in the front lobby of the MGM hotel.
This giant fish tank and octopus are INSIDE the MGM hotel/mall/casino. This area was huge and I couldn’t believe that it was indoors!
This is behind the giant fish tank inside the MGM. Gorgeous, isn’t it?
Me on one of the staircases. It really is huge!
This ADORABLE diner is just inside the Study City mall/casino.
This is the Parisian hotel, with a replica (although probably not exact) of the Eiffel Tower.
At night, it’s gorgeous! One night, as my aunt and I walked past, it was playing “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and The Beast. The Eiffel Tower lit up different colors and patterns along with beats of the song. It was really cool!
This is inside the Parisian at the front desk. Very, very fancy.
This is inside the main lobby of the Parisian. It’s a giant fountain with a Christmas tree on the ceiling!
This is a sculpture inside of the Grand Lisboa hotel. It’s so intricate, and made entirely out of Mammoth tusk!This is some sort of cool, gold, dragon boat thing. It was also inside the Lisboa.This is a diorama of a giant palace the the Lisboa is building in Macau. It was set to be completed in 2019, but I’m not sure whether it actually was.
These are all pictures of the inside of a mall called the Venetian. It was huge and went on forever! There were Gondola rides down the river and the Gondoliers would sing and play guitar as you floated downstream. It was incredible.
This is a giant slide from the second floor to the first floor of Studio City. Only approved guests are allowed to use it (sadly, I was not one of those guests).
Also inside Studio City is this giant merry-go-round made for sitting down to eat while going for a spin.
This is a large dragon fountain in Studio City. The pearl and light change color.
The biggest casino/mall/hotel in Macau (I believe) is called The Galaxy. Inside they had a movie theater where my aunt and I were able to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. They also had multiple statues set up that I took pictures with:
This is by far the coolest theater I have ever been in
Food
While in Macau, we enjoyed a lot of different food. I had real egg tarts for the first time, and they were delicious!
I had this french toast, which basically just tasted like fried beignet dough:
My aunt and I also had a lovely Godiva Tea Time:
Everything was delicious, sweet, and very filling.
We also had pizza hut one night. I’m pretty sure we ate other food, but I am failing to remember right now. I know, however, that we didn’t eat a lot because we weren’t super hungry. We thought that was funny, considering how we were non-stop walking everywhere.
The night that we left Macau, we had our final meal at the Cheescake Factory. I ordered some sort of Pizza Spaghetti, which was basically flattened chicken covered in loads of marinara sauce and cheese with noodles on top.
The Panda Pavilion
My aunt I traveled the lower half of Macau to visit the Panda Pavilion, which also houses monkeys, birds, flamingos, and ostriches. All of the animals were fun to see and interact with (as much as we were able to).
This is right through the entrance of the pavilion. It is celebrating Macau’s 20th anniversary.
Here is one of the Pandas! I think his name was Kang Kang.
The red pandas were very shy, but they are one of my favorites, so I tried to get a decent picture.
These are the parrot mixes.
There is one super pink flamingo on the left. My aunt and I believe he is stealing all the shrimp from the other flamingos. There is also a black swan here, near the rocks in the middle. He’s kind of hard to see in the photo, but was very pretty.
And now this blog post is way too long, so I’m going to stop here. If you want to see some older, more historical parts of Macau like Church and Fortress ruins, follow/subscribe to the blog and I will try to get a post on that out before the end of January. Don’t worry, it will be much shorter than this one 😅 Thanks for reading!
Kimberly's Adventures Abroad 
Cool pictures! You are becoming quite the adventurer!
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That all looks amazing! I can’t wait to read about the Portugese history and see pictures of the older buildings.
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