Macau, Macau Travel Blogs

Look out Vegas!
Apr 27, 2007 (10 photos)

... the past decade, and the easy accessibility of Macau to the Mainland, the demand for casino gaming has skyrocketed. Last year Macau's gaming revenue of $71 billion US dollars surpassed that of Las Vegas to make it the biggest gambling destination on earth. ...

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 ...

HK - Macau
Dec 11, 2005 (27 photos)

... commercial end of the island taking in all the extravagant casinos which are the main attraction for most visitors to Macau. Inside the tower we were approached by a representative of the 'A J Hackett adrenaline experiences' that are available ...

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

Macau Macau Special Administrative Region is situated on the Southeastern coast of China in the Guangdong Province, at latitude 22.4' North and longitude 113.5' East. It is 60 kilometers west ...

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

... 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 gambling hub in the world, and there are nearly 30 gambling casinos competing for business. Taxes ...

Day Trip To Macau
Sep 20, 2005 (21 photos)

... for an upcoming festival. We headed off to find the ruins of St Pauls, which is the main photo opportunity in Macau. The building was totally destroyed apart from the facade but it still looks very impressive. There are stairs up to the windows and we ...

Macau
Dec 20, 2005 (8 photos)

... leave the country but could trade with the Portguese on Macau. Since 1999 Macau has belonged to China as a "Special Administrative Region". Macau is famous for two other things and they both begin with G - Grand Prix and Gambling. Each year in November ...

Going colonial in Macau.
Sep 18, 2004

... plastic furniture to large banana trees). The staff put on a DVD of that movie with the huge tidal wave hitting New York. MACAU Macau is attached to mainland China by a narrow neck of land, which has a few huge border halls built onto it (click on ...

Ferry to Macau
Dec 27, 2005 (6 photos)

... containment of bird flu and SARs we assumed. Meg was a little worried they were going to stop her because of her cold. In Macau Meg wasn't feeling the best, so we grabbed McDonalds for lunch and went for a walk around the city. We got slightly lost as ...

A little taste of Portugal
Aug 1, 2003 (2 photos)

... Terry was a member. We also went to the Embassy Bar and for a lovely Italian meal, with some lovely Italian wine. I didn't see much of Macau apart from the bars, but it was very enjoyable. Arriving back in Hong Kong we decided to go to the FCC (Foreign ...

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)

... 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 interests have moved into Macau, the changes have quickened and the landscape changes vastly from year to year. The number ...

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, ...

Four countries in a day!!!
Apr 22, 2007

... of a 15 year old bike!!!! So I left Cambodia back to Thailand, spending about 2 hours in Bangkok. Thena 3 hour flight North to Macau, the old Portugese colony on the edge of Hong Kong.......here spending less than an hour, meeting Faresh (a friend of a ...

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)

... is ... the Hard Rock Hotel. We were disappointed. The girls were too and never said so because we advertised HRH’s. HRH Macau is a standard 4 star hotel to which they added a couple of guitars. Which does NOT make it a HRH. Sorry girls! At least, ...

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

... time was way different. I did the touristy thing last year and this time around it was less of a tourist, more of a local. Macau Having been escorted to the ferry terminal by Gareth and all (making sure we left maybe?) we caught the late ferry to ...

Working as a movie extra in Hong Kong
Aug 11, 2006 (51 photos)

... with Hong Kong. As stipulated in the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration of 1987 and provided for under the Basic Law of Macau, Macau is guaranteed its special administrative region status for at least 50 years starting from December 20, 1999. Residents of ...

What happens in Macau...stays in Macau
Jun 25, 2007 (17 photos)

... people coming to Macau to gamble vs Vegas.  Even more impressive is that there are only currently twenty-five casinos in Macau. I have to admit though, it was nice to sit at a blackjack table and not have a couple idiots wreck the table when ...

High Times
Oct 2, 2008 (19 photos)

... a stark contrast to other places we visited in Macau. Our next destination was a toss-up between outdoors adventures exploring historic Macau by visiting Portugese remnants on the main hill of the town or other areas of the city or going to the modern ...

Ao Men!
May 4, 2008 (17 photos)

On our last full day down south, we took the Turbojet Ferry from Hong Kong to Macau! Macau is composed of a peninsula attached to the Chinese Mainland, and also an Island further south. It was a portuguese colony for about 400 years, before being ...

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

... wissen-was-das-war verkauft wurde, gingen nämlich direkt in eine Altstadt über, wie man sie aus Südeuropa kennt. Da Macau bis 1997 unter portugiesischer Herrschaft stand, ist der Stadtkern geprägt durch gut erhaltene Gebäude aus der Kolonialzeit. Da unsere Zeit ...

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)

... bus ride and go to Macau. Only after moving across the country did I realize that Macau would be great place to visit. Macau was colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and was returned to China in 1999. It is a special administrative region ( ...

portugal meets china
Feb 22, 2000 (5 photos)

... de Sao Paulo and Fortaleza de Monte. At St Michael's, I found baskets of bones atop the church. That was kind of creepy. Macau was a Portuguese colony for a long time so their influence can be seen in architecture, street names and such. It's weird to see ...

Day trip to Macau
Nov 16, 2005 (2 photos)

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 US. ...

Madness in Macau
Dec 2, 2008 (10 photos)

Well we finally got out of Hong Kong but we have to go back tomorrow! Arrived here in Macau yesterday via the Turbojet ferry. First thing we did when we got here was try to book flights to Manila as were definitely not going to Bangkok now, maybe after ...

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 ...