Zhuhai
Travel Blogs from Zhuhai, China
Look out Vegas!
... a bit strange that we have been in China for the last ten days but have crossed two "international borders" by traveling from Mainland China to Hong Kong, then on to Macau. It certainly gets stamps in the passport fast! The colonial legacy left ...
HK - Macau
... a catamaran and the seats were like first class airline seats which WOULD have made for a pleasant journey if the South China Sea hadn't been so damn choppy. After multiple protests to buying travel sickness bands Andrew was soon extremely thankful for ...
Going colonial in Macau.
... aloft. Excellent tourist brochures, good and modern museums, multilingual signs and free entrance to some sights (unthinkable in mainland China) and friendly tourism officials. Macau is best-known for casinos, but if you're not interested, they're easy ...
Ferry to Macau
... to the hotel via Senado Square we picked up some sandwiches for dinner. Both pretty tired we went back to the hotel to work out how we're going to get around China in the limited timeframe we have, considering it's also quite close to Chinese New ...
Made it to Macau!
Decided to get out of dodge for the weekend and jumped the ferry to Macau. It is about an hour ride on the jet foil and I decided to buy the first class ticket instead of economy. It was only a few dollars difference when I worked it out (well like $10) ...
Never Say Never Again
... back AT you at light speed as soon as you cross the border. This time I am only going to be in China for a week chilling out at my friend's place near Zhuhai while waiting for my buddy to meet me in Macau. I think the condo is actually is in Zhuhai, but ...
Venetian Macau Round "Due"
After a nice dinner at a restaurant that I never would have found or gone into myself, Anna, Denis and I went to the Venetian to have a look around. Denis gave me a "lucky" $100 gaming chip that he'd gotten from work as some kind of reward. I'm sure it ...
Venetian Macau Round "Tre"
I knew I shouldn't go back to the Venetian, but it was Steven's last night in Macau and I still had last night's winnings in my pocket in Venetian chips ;) We had some drinks and dinner at McSoreley's in the Venetian. But in hindsight, it was kinda ...
Happy Endings Are Possible
... weekend 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 ...
Day Trip To Macau
... Burger King for the first time in Asia and you should have seen Dave's face before he ran over to order! Onboard our tiny A300 China Airlines flight to Taipei I was a little nervous. The plane was fine but looked like the ones we used to fly to Spain ...
A little taste of Portugal
Dave took me on the ferry to Macau today. We started off with lunch in a lovely little restaurant called Fernandos on Coloane Island. After a few bottles of vino verde and some lovely food we were about to leave whe we bumped into an old friend of ...
Fake Eggs Made in China
... of a dozen new toys. Here's a link to The Standard news article I'd include an article from the main English newspaper, South China Morning Post, but you have to be an online subscriber to read their stories. Update: Well I just had a real egg white ...
3 Years and 30,000+ Hits Later
... island. So this is it. I don't know if I will end this journey any time soon, but I will leave you here in China as I decide what to do next. Thank you all very much for reading my ramblings with travel tips infused into my musings. And ...
Four countries in a day!!!
A quick entry...today I did four countries.....bit of an achievement!!! I left Asia in style, a motor bike ride to the airport on the back of a 15 year old bike!!!! So I left Cambodia back to Thailand, spending about 2 hours in Bangkok. Thena 3 ...
Chasing the Sun
... States. Well, probably because... it's been ages since my plane departed LAX. 1214 days to be exact. I've been based in Zhuhai, China off and on since Feb 2009 house sitting for some friends. 4 months is a very long time to be in one place ...
Working as a movie extra in Hong Kong
... to marvel at the European style buildings and wander the cobble stone streets. Macao is overrun by tourists, many from mainland China. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating to the 16th century. The ...
What happens in Macau...stays in Macau
Welcome to Vegas-lite. Macau is, I think, a bit of an anomaly within China. Due to the Portuguese influence of the city, it has a very Mediterranean feel. Some areas of the city felt more Portuguese than Lisbon did. Large plazas, ...
Macau
... being Hong. 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 ...
Happy Halloween!!!
We survived the Halloween celebrations, at school and at home. The games in our classrooms were a lot of fun, and our costumes thoroughly freaked out our students. Looking at the pictures now, I am wondering what I was thinking???? I am reminded why ...
Year of the Rabbit
... to see anything crazy like a massive firework display or the dragon parade. Those mostly take place in the big cities, and Zhuhai, being only 1.5 - 2 million, is considered a small city. That does not mean we didn't get to see any fireworks. Every single ...
portugal meets china
Nancy and I caught the TurboJet over from Hong Kong to Macau for a daytrip. The weather was kind of cloudy and drizzly while we were there. We went to Guia Lighthouse, Flora Gardens, St Michael's Cemetary, Ruinas de Sao Paulo and Fortaleza de Monte. At ...
Day trip to Macau
I took an early ferry from Kowloon to Macau, which took about an hour. After a quick meal, I headed to Casino Lisboa to try my hand at some blackjack. I only played for an hour and a half or so, but came out with $500 HK dollars, which is about $65 ...
Doing it Chinese Style
... not complaining. We're becoming experts at giving "The Hoover Tour" by now, so we showed them around all of our favorite spots in Zhuhai and Macau their first weekend. The first couple of days it was a little rainy so we were forced to spend a lot of our ...
Macau
The Lonely Planet commands, and so we did. Setting our sights on the previously Portuguese colony of Macau we got up early and sped from the HongKong harbour on a huge motorized catamaran shortly after. The trip took about 1.5hrs total. We walked the ...
Smullen in Macau
... , we hebben echt enorm genoten van die paar dagen Mediterraanse sfeer! De bouwstijl is ook compleet verschillend van China. Het lijkt wel Lissabon, overgenomen door de Chinezen. Allemaal kleine straatjes met koloniale huizen en overdekte voetpaden... ...
Macau
... . A short boost up the road we found a gondola ride up the hill to another fort and the oldest and still active lighthouse in China. The light house was built in 1865 and the fort in 1637. This place had spectacular vistas of the whole city. Still loads ...
Eating in China
Now we're getting caught up! We've been waiting to do this food blog, and it probably won't be the last. Eating in China has definitely been the most interesting and challenging part of our life here (besides our careers). Eating out can be so ...
Yeli Dao
We visited Yeli Dao a few weeks ago on a Saturday. Dao means island, so Yeli Dao is one of Zhuhai's hundreds of islands. It's just a small island, and it is connected to the mainland by a bridge. The city has recently improved it with trails and walkways, ...
