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Croatia – Tisno Day 6 (Defected Day 2)

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Started the day by leaving the festival grounds to get brunch at a place called Carmen. Details can be found here:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2021/08/07/carmen/

Then spent the first part of the day chilling in the water near the beach stage of defected (between 2pm to 6pm). Water was great, chatted with some people from the US, and the music was great.

Then we chilled at the Olive Grove stage for a bit, where a more deeper type of music was played by a DJ named Sef Kombo. It was a really great set.

Then we got dinner (got a burger). Burger was good, but waited almost 15 minutes for it.

Then went to the beach stage for a bit (no notable DJs).

After, went to the main defected stage (also no notable DJs).

Lastly, we took a (200 Kuna) taxi to Barbella at 1am, then left at 4am using an Uber (about 100 Kuna). Nearly lost my phone (dropped it on the floor of the Uber, a d the Uber driver was closing the door on me! Ugh).

PS. We created a drink mixing White wine and Red Bull, which White toro

PSS. Sneaking alcohol was possible. Got Ballantine’s whisky and wine, and snuck it in by throwing it over the fence.

Macau!

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Because of the previous day, we started the day off a bit later than expected (around 12pm). We ended up ferrying over to Macau using the TurbJet near Hong Kong station around 1:05pm. The ride was super bumpy, and I definitely got sea sick.

   
 
After an hour we arrived in Macau. Immigration was really easy. Also, getting to the hotel was easy since the Venetian had a bus that took us from the ferry terminal.

When we arrived at the Venetia, I immediately noticed how packed and busy it was. I’ve never even seen Vegas like that. Although checking into the hotel was fast.

The room itself looked very similar to the Venetian in Vegas. Except I noticed that it seemed a little cheaper (from the paint used to the quality of the decorations. One wouldn’t notice unless they stayed at the one in Vegas). 

   

 After dropping our stuff in the hotel, I explored the inside of the hotel a bit. Like Vegas, you can access other hotels from the inside. However, I noticed that the Hotels focus wayyyyy more on ships and the mall aspect than Vegas (which is something I really didn’t care about). 

Shortly after we made our way to The Ruins of St Paul (it was a church that burned down and the only remnants was the facade). It cost about 200 Macau dollars (equivalent to 200 HKD). Jasmin though it was a rip off, but I didn’t care since we were behind on time.

  
After he ruins, we went food tasting around Sendak a Square. Jasmin got me to try the Portuguese egg tart, the macadamia cookies, the Portuguese pork sandwhich, the pork jerky and a bunch of other samples:

    
   
After Senado square we we walked to the Wynn (we were trying to get a taxi, but then realized it was about 1KM away).

     
   
From the Wynn we took a bus to Wynn Palace (which is on the side of he river where our hotel is).

 
From the Wynn Palace, we went back to the Venetian briefly. I then walked around to check out the other hotels (the Parisian, City of Dreams, Galaxy).

   

  

  

  
 

Second a Day in Hong Kong

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So we started the day off by having some delicious dim sum at the Michelin Star Restaruant, Tim Ho Wan

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After eating lunch, we headed to the Big Buddha statue at Lantau Island (got of art Tug Ching station and taxied it over. Apparently different taxi colors reprewebt which island they’re allowed to serve on. Blue was the color for Lantau. Also, Iner couldn’t bring us to the statue since they don’t have a permit). As we got closer to the statue, you could office he difference with the surroundings (it looked more like a 2nd to 3rd world country. Jas said it looked like parts of China).

Here are some pics from the statue:

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After coming back from the Big Buddha (again, we taxied it over), we went back to Tung Chung station, where I tried out the Pizza Hut. I have to say Pizza Hut in Asia is on a different level than North America.

   
  
 
After Pizza Hit, we headed back to my Hotel, where I napped for a couple of hours. After, I was ready to hit the clubs in LKF.

We started at a bar called Soiree in SOHO (SOHO is where more of the fancier bars are), where I met two of Jasmin’s friends (Teresa and Derek). I got myself a lychee martini. After, we went to another bar in SOHO called Little Lab, where I got an old fashion (they used bullet, but instead of sugar they used maple syrup). At Little Lab, Teresa puked, and unfortunately I got a little of the fallout :/

  
After we checked out two clubs, Dragon-I and Bungalow.  Both were really crowded. Bungalow played more top 40 EDM while Dragon-I was a bit deeper. Big also charged 300 HKD for guys (but for Bungalow, the bouncer tried to trick me. He said it was 20 USD to get in, which he then said translated to 300 HKD. Obviously that is incorrect. At the time of this writing it converts to 40 USD. So what I ended up doing is giving him a $20 USD bill. He asked if I had HKD, I said no. So he accepted it :)).