Macau, China Travel Blogs

Macau in a day...
May 2, 2008 (6 photos)

... 's high-end office malls but is extremely nice to us and the prices are much more reasonable than I had ever imagined. I'm off to Macau while Will works on a paper for another one of his classes.  I walk to the ferry from the tailors and run into ...

Two Days One Night in Macau
Jul 20, 2008 (26 photos)

... follows the typical museum layouts of a European style. The exhibits explore major themes in the history of the maritime industry in Macau, China and Portugal. The main building is a three-storey white building, architected in the shape of a boat in full ...

Macau - Day 134
Jul 6, 2008 (13 photos)

... called Hospedaria San Va guesthouse. Simple guesthouse in a good central location near to all the old Portuguese colonial sites. Macau has a very different feel to Hong Kong, you can see the old Portuguese colonial influence everywhere in the architecture, ...

Tighter Macau visa rules - but not for foreigners
Jul 16, 2008

... to cut the time Mainlanders can spent money in Macau. The new rules come into force next month - August. Earlier this year China limited stays to a month, and then allowed Chinese to visit every two months. Since 2006, Macau has been the largest ...

Made it to Macau!
Jan 26, 2008 (34 photos)

... other-side of the city this visit, but wouldn't mind coming back and hitting the slot machines and Baccarat tables...maybe seeing the Macau Grand Prix or taking in a race at either the horse or dog-track. There are plenty of characters in this town and it ...

Happy Endings Are Possible
Nov 18, 2007 (21 photos)

... of June in Montreal when the F1 GP comes to town and you can feel the energy growing throughout the week. Like much of China, Macau has changed a lot over the past 16 years since my first visit to the first Casino Lisboa in Macau. Since Vegas ...

Grand Prix do Macau
Nov 19, 2006 (5 photos)

... morning warmups woke me up. I hate travel days and had been at it for 10-11 hours already, but I didn't come to Macau to sleep. I headed straight out to the 6th Annual Macau Food Festival and grabbed a couple large Macau Beers and heaps of food, ...

Another day in Macau
Sep 2, 2008 (34 photos)

I extended our hotel stay until the 4th of September. Today, we spent the day doing the cultural hike. Temple visits, church visits and we bumped into this library, sir Roberto Ho Tung Library, where internet use is free, AWESOME. My brother can ...

Trip to a different world, the difference is Macau
Aug 31, 2008 (27 photos)

... , after talking to the immigration officer, he then softened and agreed to allow him to go with us since we are just going to Macau. I called them back, and my nephew was just the happiest person at that moment. His first time to ride a plane, to go ...

Macau
Sep 10, 2009 (9 photos)

... It is one of the richest cities in the world and was both the first and last European colony in China. Portuguese traders first settled in Macau in the 16th century and subsequently administered the region until the handover on 20 December 1999. Our best ...

"Copy Rolex.. nice suit for you, Sir?"
Aug 29, 2005 (10 photos)

... to go. Going to the mainland After a good tour of Macau it was time to head into mainland China proper - Hong Kong and Macau are called SAR's, or special administrative regions, of China and although they ultimately take their orders from Beijing ...

High Times
Oct 2, 2008 (19 photos)

... Disneyland for fear of crowds so instead we were to head across the Pearl River Delta to China's other Special Administrative Region (SAR), Macau. Preparations began early so that we had enough time to enjoy the Chef Mickey buffet breakfast downstairs ...

Ao Men!
May 4, 2008 (17 photos)

... vegetarian food... I think seafood has a big role in the cuisine here, being so close to the ocean!). Our overall impression of Macau was that it had a bit more of a community-like, small-city feel than Hong Kong, and, even though the colonizers were ...

Macau - auf welchem Kontinent sind wir hier???
Oct 5, 2009 (4 photos)

... wir zuerst in Hong Kong offiziell aus China ausreisen (was heißt: brav Formulare ausfüllen) um eine Stunde später in Macau wieder nach China einzureisen (na klar - Formulare ausfüllen)! In Macau angekommen hat sich uns ein sehr netter (sehr kleiner und alter) ...

Home at Last!
Mar 20, 2009

We made it back home safe and sound!  We would like to thank all of the students and parents for making this incredible experience possible.  The students were exceptionally behaved.  We coudn't have asked to have traveled with a better ...

where are all the vices?
Feb 10, 2006 (16 photos)

... we were able to see Ou Jin.) A couple of hours later we arrived. A short walk, a long line to exit China, a shorter line to enter Macau, and then we were there. There...finally I was in Macau. For two years Guangdong people told me not to bother ...

Madness in Macau
Dec 2, 2008 (10 photos)

... while I went to the Macau tower. I made my way up to the observation deck and took in the views of Macau and the South China Sea. Probably the coolest thing about the tower is the re-enforced glass floor panels which can make walking around up there very ...

East, West
Aug 22, 2006

... two foods ubiquitous in the village: fish maw (in soup), and shrimp paste. We also had a gigantic plate of clams. Macau is a delight. There are relatively few skyscrapers here, so from a high vantage point, you can see how much Portugese architecture ...

Macao
Mar 31, 2009 (20 photos)

... kiinan kielen taitomme on mita on. Kylla Indonesiassa olisi helpompaa ;-) Senaatintorilla, joka kai on jokaisen Macau-turistin pakollinen eiffeli, odottelimme turistitoimiston aukeamista ja ryntasimme sitten tasan klo 9 sisaan varaamaan paikan molemmat ...

Far East Vegas
Nov 15, 2009 (13 photos)

Last stop. Day trip to Macau. Food was good especially the egg tarts. Casino's a lot more subdued than Vegas but filled with Chinese like Vegas.

Already?
Mar 18, 2007

... has a theme park feel to it. It's difficult to describe but the point is it takes parts of history (not specific to Macau or China) and recreates it, eg. Tang Dynasty, Coliseum and Persia (think Aladdin).   We do a drive-by of a beautiful ...

Macau
Feb 19, 2007 (38 photos)

... and do in this country. We will definitely be back for more of this sometimes hard work but fulfilling travel destination. Macau itself was a crazy place, it was settled by the Portuguese in about 1550 so when walking around the sights it had a ...

Macau
Nov 23, 2008 (29 photos)

Whilst we were in Hong Kong we decided to take a TurboJet ferry across the water to main land China and visit Macau aka mini Las Vegas! It was quite stressful as we had to go through customs 4 times within about 14 hours! We arrived early and we were ...

Happy New Chinese Year!
Feb 8, 2008 (54 photos)

... die 65km von HongKong nach Macau gefahren, das Schiff braucht 1h (es benutzt Flugzeugtriebwerke als Antrieb...). In Macau trifft Portugal auf China und inzwischen auch noch Las Vegas. Bei meinem ersten Besuch 1990 war Macau ein verschlafenes Dorf, mit ...

Vegas of the East
Feb 2, 2009 (35 photos)

... here.  Hong Kong and Macau are two very special areas.  Hong Kong belonged to England and Macau belonged Portugal and both were 'returned' to China in 1999.  Each have separate governments and money.  If you are Chinese you need a ...

Photos
Mar 21, 2009 (5 photos)

Here are a few photos of our amazing adventure!

Trying our luck in Macau
Jan 16, 2009 (12 photos)

... in the centre of Macau and it was very pretty with cobblestoned streets and lots of old Portugese styled buildings. Macau was once ruled by Portugal. Some of the buildings looked edible in their pretty styles and pastel colours. Our hotel was in ...

Day we went to Macau
Mar 30, 2009 (3 photos)

... which was opposite the GP start finish straight. If you have play PGR4 then you will recognise the area, the game has copied it really well. Overall opinions of Macau, personally I liked it better than HK due to it atmosphere an laid back way .

Macau During National Week
Oct 2, 2008 (12 photos)

... of the thousands and thousands of people I encounter in the streets, maybe 30 are Caucasian, 2 black, 5 Indian. Macau was a Portuguese colony until 1976. There is still a great deal of Portuguese influence, from street names ...

Viva Las Vegas
May 13, 2009 (15 photos)

... de Ruine der Sao Paul Kathedrale. Am Nachmittag gings dann zum Bus, der glueckerlicherweise klimatisiert war, weil Macau eine sehr extreme Luftfeuchtigkeit und Hitze aufweist.Nachdem die Busbegleiterinnen einigen Stress gemacht hatten, weil wir anscheinend ...