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Macau

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Macau, former colony of Portugal, is now under China's rule.  Its a special district, and Chinese citizens must get a special VISA before they can cross the China/Macau border.  I am using US passport, so no problem at all.  It was only a 2 hour bus ride from city of Guangzhou. 

This place is much smaller than Hong Kong, which I enjoyed visiting a year ago - even though it was only a day trip.  This time, we spend a night, hotel rate was not bad at all, around $102, I was expecting much higher rate, and the room was very comfortable, so I am not going to complain much...   :)


Street scene - lots of pawn shops and jewelry stores, just like Vegas.



One of the older casinos.
 

European styled plaza.  I like this type of stuff, very relaxing feel to it.   but just around the corner, the massive humanity awaits
 

Here we go - people every where.   waiting in line for some food...
 

St. Pauls church - burned down many years ago, this is what's left.   This of course, a must see land mark.
 
 

Grand Lisboa in the distance
 
 
 
 
 
 

Can be very hilly here.  Get a good pair of walking shoes
 

Old fort 

Rio Casino at night
 

Another Casino - not a lot of people in this side of the island for some reason. 
 

Yours truly, pretending to be a photographer
 

Grand Prix Macau
 

Another casino, again, not a lot of people
 

A new casino, just finished recently


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Macao is a splendid city but full of contraddition. I wish I can host some of your work on my corso di fotografia blog.

marco said...

Macao is a splendid city but full of contraddition. I wish I can host some of your work on my corso di fotografia blog.

 

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