Macau
The rest of our time in Australia was fun. We went to a wildlife sanctaury in the rain. We had raincoats so it wasn't too bad - and there were hardly any people.
The sanctuary had the option of talking a photo while cuddling a koala. I had intended on having this done because koalas are so cute. When I got there they had a number of koalas sitting in small trees by the photo area. A Japanese couple had just paid for a photo ticket. A worker went to a tree to get a koala down. The koala was sleeping and woken up by the worker. The koala started jumping from tree to tree to escape the worker. After about 6 minutes a second worker was called in to get the koala out of the tree. The koala fought being taken off the tree and struggled while being put in the Japanese couple's arms. I thought that this was horrible and felt so bad for the poor little koala. There was no way in hell I would support the koala photo taking business.
There was a big open grassy area filled with kangaroos, wallabies and emus. Daryl and I purchased two small bags of barley to feed them. At one point I was scared for my life beacause there was a frenzy of animals around me. The emu was scary and his big body would trap me. The wallabies tried to climb up on my with their little paws. I guess with so few visitors at the centre that day, they were really hungry!
The next day we drove a couple hours west into the mountains. The roads were winding and lush with greenery. We went to rainforest retreat called O'Reilly's for lunch and bushwalked a couple hours in the afternoon. I didn't see many animals outside of lizards, birds and wild kangaroos. Our hike led us to a beautiful waterfall complete with a rainbow.
That evening we had an overnight flight back to KL and connected to Macau. Macau is a former Portugese colony and an autonomous region of China (like Hong Kong). We explored some of the sights like old churches, forts and some yummay Macanese food. Macanese food is a fusion of Chinese and Portugese cooking. We are staying in an old Portugese Inn run by a tourism university. The staff are super attentive and try really hard to impress us (since we will be helping to grade them). They also have a fine dining component and we had an eight course gourmet meal in the evening. Oh my god it was sooo good - and a fraction of the price for a similar meal in Canada.
Our inn is located in a beautiful city park. We are going to have a romantic breakfast in the garden now. Afterwards we are going to walk around the park, hike to an old fort and visit an ancient buddist temple. Apparently lots of people do tai chi in the park and old men enjoy taking their caged pet birds for walks in the mornings! We will take a ferry to Hong Kong in the afternoon.
The sanctuary had the option of talking a photo while cuddling a koala. I had intended on having this done because koalas are so cute. When I got there they had a number of koalas sitting in small trees by the photo area. A Japanese couple had just paid for a photo ticket. A worker went to a tree to get a koala down. The koala was sleeping and woken up by the worker. The koala started jumping from tree to tree to escape the worker. After about 6 minutes a second worker was called in to get the koala out of the tree. The koala fought being taken off the tree and struggled while being put in the Japanese couple's arms. I thought that this was horrible and felt so bad for the poor little koala. There was no way in hell I would support the koala photo taking business.
There was a big open grassy area filled with kangaroos, wallabies and emus. Daryl and I purchased two small bags of barley to feed them. At one point I was scared for my life beacause there was a frenzy of animals around me. The emu was scary and his big body would trap me. The wallabies tried to climb up on my with their little paws. I guess with so few visitors at the centre that day, they were really hungry!
The next day we drove a couple hours west into the mountains. The roads were winding and lush with greenery. We went to rainforest retreat called O'Reilly's for lunch and bushwalked a couple hours in the afternoon. I didn't see many animals outside of lizards, birds and wild kangaroos. Our hike led us to a beautiful waterfall complete with a rainbow.
That evening we had an overnight flight back to KL and connected to Macau. Macau is a former Portugese colony and an autonomous region of China (like Hong Kong). We explored some of the sights like old churches, forts and some yummay Macanese food. Macanese food is a fusion of Chinese and Portugese cooking. We are staying in an old Portugese Inn run by a tourism university. The staff are super attentive and try really hard to impress us (since we will be helping to grade them). They also have a fine dining component and we had an eight course gourmet meal in the evening. Oh my god it was sooo good - and a fraction of the price for a similar meal in Canada.
Our inn is located in a beautiful city park. We are going to have a romantic breakfast in the garden now. Afterwards we are going to walk around the park, hike to an old fort and visit an ancient buddist temple. Apparently lots of people do tai chi in the park and old men enjoy taking their caged pet birds for walks in the mornings! We will take a ferry to Hong Kong in the afternoon.