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  With fare as low as US$9.68 one way, how can you possibly resist not flying to Macau? It's too good to refuse - way appealing to me and my pocket! Clark-Macau route is one of the cheapest flight deals from Tiger Airways. Thanks to Tiger, I always get more than I bargained for (oh, they didn’t pay me for this ad, lol!). So, I forked out as little as that (plus taxes) and headed to Macau on the nose!   I'm feeling much comfortable traveling alone by now since it's my second tim...

Day 2 in Macau, woke up early to, hopefully, finish all the sights as listed in my IT.  When we got out of the hotel, it rained.  :( OMG, puhleez.   Though raining, we walked to the Historic Centre of Macau, the Senado Square, which includes the oldest western architectural heritage on Chinese soil.  When we got there, it stopped raining, an answered prayer.  :)   I love Senado Square with its pastel-colored classic East-meets-West buildings.&nb...

Welcome to Macau, the former Portugese colony that's under contruction to become an almost exact copy of Las Vegas. Macau is - just like Hong Kong - a Special Administrive Region (SAR) in the People's Republic of China, meaning they enjoy quite some freedom to make and practice their own laws. It's the only place in China where you can legally own and operate a casino, and with an enormous Chinese middle class coming up with money to burn, guess where all the big players want to be? An hour ...

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: The perfect word that i can think of for Macau is 'crossroads'. In almost every meaning, Macau is somewhere that sees a collision of East and West. From colonial cobbled streets to towering casinos, grey tower blocks to yellow Portuguese churches, Mandarin and Portuguese with English thrown in for good measure, Dim Sum, dumplings and noodles or would you prefer Heineken, Roast Dinner and McDonalds? Even the majority of the...

  What a better place for starting a big Journey of 3 weeks of honeymoon?   After running to the airport to catch a 3 hour flight to Paris, we had 12 more hours sitting on a plane to Hong Kong… As we’re so tired from the day before, we slept thru the whole trip and we even had to be waken in Paris by the stewardess..everybody was laughing…what makes me guess that we snored the whole trip…. (we were a bit drunk… :p yeah…maybe a little bit too much drunk and t...

The Hong Kong to Macau ferry has been calling me for some time. I come to Hong Kong many times a year but have never once ventured to the old Portuguese trading port, now a Special Administrative Zone. So today I decided I would go. From my hotel, the Ramada Hong Kong Hotel, it is a 15 minute walk to the Macau Ferry terminal. Parting with HK$150 to a very friendly chap at the ticket office I boarded the catamaran high speed ferry (built on the Isle of White - UK) having departed the SAR Hong...

Long before Travbuddy made my life easier, I would send out my travel blogs in email form to my friends and family.  This one I wrote after my first trip to Macau.  This was in January of 2002, before they built all the new Vegas style casinos, so it's a bit dated.  Nevertheless, it's good to finally clean it out of my hotmail sent box and actually post it online.  Thanks Travbuddy. I finally made it away for a weekend to a place many of you may not know exists, Macau. Ma...

For my last day of my big trip I made the 1 hour fast ferry trip from Hong Kong. Macau is a former Portuguese colony and has a large number of colonial period buildings that tourists flock to see. Its also the Las Vegas of Asia with many large themed resort hotels similar to Vegas. When I arrived in Macau  I spent about an hour queuing at Immigration which was annoying as I only had 7 hours to see the place. I found Macau less tourist friendly than Hong Kong, it was a difficult...

Heute hieß es früh aufstehen, weil ich wollte mit dem Schnellboot nach Macao fahren. Also um halb acht aufgestanden und gegen acht Richtung Hafen aufgebrochen. Unterwegs hab ich mir noch ein Frühstück besorgt. Der Passagierhafen ist relativ groß und sieht wirklich aus wie ein Flughafen: Check-In Schalter, Gates, Gepäckausgabe und Ein- bzw. Ausreisebürokratie. Das Boot fährt zu jeder halben Stunde, ich habe ein Ticket für 09:00 Uhr bekommen. Durfte dann auch gleich aufs Schiff, das au...

I decided to visit Macau when i was in Hong Kong, it is only 1 hour by fast ferry. With an area of only a few square kilometers, peninsular Macau is navigable by foot. Once arrived, I directly went to Largo do Senado (Senate Square) by bus. It is a colorful typical Iberian town square at the heart of the city. Nearby, Above Saint Paul's, within the remains of the Mount fortress, is the main Macau Museum.. Oh dont go here on Monday, because they are closed. Portuguese egg tart is nice!!

20 Dec is the Hand-over Anniversary Day of Macau. So, Ophe got a single holiday and we hang out together in noon (since it was almost 11:00am when we all woke up). We went for high-tea at Margaret's Cafe e Nata in a back alley of central Macau, just a short walk from the Grand Lisboa Casino in the direction of Senado Square. Also, one thing that I just can't miss everytime I'm visiting Macau: "Macau Pork Chop Bun". You can find this delicacy at many famous rest...

We did a day trip from Hong Kong to Macau, I thought it would be easy but so much officialdom when leaving Hong Kong to board the ferry for our 45min trip. But once we got to Macau it was great, although on this day it was abit humid and cloudy we did a tour of the city visiting the St Paul Catherdral, and Museum of Macau, Temple Ma, and of course the beautiful Portuguese Custard Tarts yummmy. We even went to one of the Casino's Fishermans Wharf where they are currently building a mini shoppi...

After 3 days in HK, it was time for us to go back to Singapore. We have our ticket to Singapore departing from Macau. We had hours to explore the Macau before taking off. So from ferry termnal, alot of touts are waiting for tourist like for a tour around the Potugese city of Macau. We settled for a tour that would end us being dropped in the airport. Some highlights in our Macau trip would be the Largo do Senado, St Paul's Ruins, Macau Tower and the casino district. ...

already my last full day in hong kong today! i could move my flight at last... funny story: i called cathay pacific hong kong to move my flight and they told me that it would cost me 300hkd. so i called the australian office again and they moved it for free... hehe surfer dudes once again not up to date with the policies of the rest of the world so the title already spoils the great surprise of what i did today: i went to macau! why did i do that? because of the great sights there...

It had been six months of bedazzlement in Thailand but now it was time to break free from the enchantment and leave. It was now or never for me as I was drifting more and more into a stupor of magic wine. Years would pass as days and I would rouse to find my ship buried in the sand. I often felt as if in love but it wasn’t just her it was She the land that was love bombing me. I had made a definite decision to go anywhere far away from here. A chance meeting with a Romanian woman decided ...