Travel to Venice, Italy Day 2

Paris, France -> Prague, Czech -> Venice, Italy

See Venice Day 1

The next day, we bought 24 hour tickets for vaporetta (water taxis) to explore islands, Murano island and Burano island that's close to Venice. I realized later that actually the ticket that we bought is for 24 hour vaporetta in Venice only and not to the island. Luckily, maybe because it's weekend? that there are no one checking the tickets.

First, since we got unlimited rides, we took the vaporetta and cruising along the canals. See the view.

Pic: One of vaporetta stops -- Ferrovia.

Pic: Not sure whether this is some building of purpose (library etc) or the palace houses used by the wealthy.

Pic: Hilton hotel.

Pic: San Giorgio Maggiore up close which we can saw yesterday from Doge's Palace and a vaporetta.

Pic: View of Doge's Palace from the water.

Pic: One church in another island.

We arrived at Murano island. This island is famous for producing original Murano glass (you can see it at shops, KLCC got some). Just when we arrived, we were being ushered to see a demostration on glass blowing on one of the factory. After the demo, we asked for some money (sabar je la). They said that the art of blowing/making glass was passed through generations from father to son and there are no school for this. Then, we were ushered to their gift shops where people can purchase vases, dinnerware etc. (nice tactic).

Pic: Red brick building at Murano island (must be hot living here)

We break for lunch at the restaurant at this square. Opposite from Rome, we had been lucky to find all good food in Venice in spite of it full of tourists.

Afterwards, we hopped the vaporretta to go to the next island, Burano. Burano is a fishing village. While Murano is famous for it's glass, Burano is famous for it's laceworks. And a unique thing about Burano is the houses was painted in different colours.





This trip lasted whole day but it was worth it.