Hong Kong, Day Five

Today Finley finally got caught up on her jetlag. She awoke at 7:30 am after both Clifton and I were up, she finally got some much needed rest. Which was just in time for our day in Macau. We walked down to the China Ferry Terminal in Kowloon to catch the ferry to Macau. We ended up booking a ferry to Tapai, which meant our taxi ride was a bit longer, but not a huge deal.

Old town Macau was bustling with tourists. We walked through the town square, enjoyed an ice cream snack and headed over to the ruins of Sao Paulo church. Finley was most excited about going up the steps to the top. She loves her steps. We headed up to the fort and saw amazing views of the island, along with a few cannons. Next on our agenda was the cable car to the old lighthouse. It seemed like a far walk, but cabs were impossible to find, so we ended up just walking all the way over there. The ride to the top was quite short and Finley thought we were going to see a big Buddha like on Lantau Island. She was just as pleased with the church and lighthouse at the top after a bit of a walk, but we were all disappointed that you couldn’t go inside the lighthouse. That would have been quite neat. We took the cable car back down the mountain and figured out the bus we needed with the help of a couple of locals. We went over to the Hotel Lisbona since it was one of the original hotels and was done up extravagantly. It did not disappoint. I would equate it with the old part of Las Vegas, very over the top and gaudy. We grabbed a meal at the hotel and cabbed it back to the ferry terminal. After the hour long journey we realized the ferry was headed for Hong Kong Island instead of Kowloon. It wasn’t our day for ferries. But we did get to cross under Victoria harbor in a taxi cab. The toll for the tunnel was nearly equal to our cab fare. Finley fell asleep in the cab, but was awake enough to watch the light show from our room when we got back to the hotel.