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Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the first European settlement in the Far East. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and Portugal on 13 April 1987, Macau became the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 20 December 1999. China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be practiced in Macau, and that Macau will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.To be updated

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By JHG
October 5th 2008

Asia's Venice in Asia's Las Vegas!

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St. Mark's Square
Notice the lack of pigeons though! Also, the lack of grandeur that is St. Mark's cathedral - I think they missed a vital part!

This last Sunday I left Hong Kong for the Las Vegas of Asia...Macau. This is a fun, casino/hotel-packed, old Portugese special region where gambling is legal, hence why it is Vegas of the East. This time around, I was heading for the Venetian hotel, and it's so big I spent the whole day there! Having been to the Venetian in Vegas it was interesting to compare! They are both massive! After a 1 hour ferry and a border crossing, a free bus to the Venetian my friends and I were in a grand lobby, purchasing tickets for the Cirque du Soleil [View Full Entry]

By geoffandmazi
October 4th 2008

Macau

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Macau
building in Largo do Sanado (famous square in Macau)

Did an excursion to Macau overnight. We caught the hour long jetfoil ferry and stayed at the Hotel Golden Dragon. We also had tickets to the Cirque du Soleil show "Zaia" at the Venetian Macau Hotel and Casino. This was Geoff's first Cirque du Soleil experience, and it was frankly, amazing. The hotels and casinos weren't necessarily the highlight feature of the city but they were very impressive. The Venetian attached to the Four Seasons was like a city in its self with hundreds of shops, and restaurants. Even a mock up of a European city complete with restaurants with patios, [View Full Entry]

By qrichardson
October 2nd 2008

macau highlights

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The Venetian
maybe the largest hotel in asia. something like 3000 rooms...really an indoor village.

in macau for the wknd...and praps not surprisingly the best parts had nothing to do with gambling. [View Full Entry]

By stephanieandcodyinchina
September 28th 2008

Macau and a Surprise at Home!

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Dinner Time!
Cody and new roommates about to sit down to a delicious home-cooked meal. The salad isn't a regular, it was me and Cody's "exotic food" contribution that day.

Near the end of June I found myself humming and hawing over what to do when my Chinese visa ended early this fall. I threw around a few options: I could continue teaching English (hopefully at a University this time), become a student (studying Chinese), or travel somewhere else in southern asia (a return to India being my first choice). I went back and forth and forth and back, a bit unenthusiastic about all of my potential paths, and during all this pondering, it never occurred to me that coming home was also an option. When this thought finally entered my [View Full Entry]

By Dolphin
August 23rd 2008

Hong Kong and Macau

Asia » Macau » Macau

HongKonglish sign

Myself and Dad did an Intrepid tour through the South of China for three weeks. The tour started in Hong Kong and while there I caught up with a friend from Hong Kong who showed me around some of the local areas. Me and Dad also did a mad dash to Macau for all of 5 hours where we took a guided taxi tour around some of the highlights. We probably spent a good few hours going through customs, taking the ferry from HK to Macau and back. Even though they are both part of China now, they are still considered [View Full Entry]

By Merryn
August 13th 2008

Macau

Asia » Macau » Macau

Ruin of St Pauls

Well, I had 2 intentions prior to my visit to Macau. The first was to take in the architecture (given the strong Portuguese influence of years past and the Chinese gambling culture of today) and the second was to jump off the Macau tower, the highest sky jump (on a wire not a bungee cord) you can perform in the world. Craig, on the otherhand, had limited interest in either pursuit but was happy to tag along in the hope of doing a yet more shopping! I really enjoyed the place. Macau is probably not the spot to spend more than [View Full Entry]

By moonfish
August 13th 2008

The big jump!

Asia » Macau » Macau

Waiting to be tied to the bungee

WOW!!!!!!!!!! Can't believe I threw myself off of a tower! The Macau Tower bungee is officially the worlds tallest bungee at 233 metres - Its in the Guiness book of records. Anyway, I can't describe the feeling, so I won't even try, but here are the photos. Enjoy! I did! Lisa. XxX [View Full Entry]

By richieaus1983
July 25th 2008

What a fucking crazy night

Asia » Macau » Macau

I am really tired right now so forgive anything that doesn't make sense. I dont remember if i mentioned this before but ive been playing at the Grand Lisboa Casino. It looks fucking amazing from the outside, a picture wouldn't do it justice and i dont think a vid from my shitty phone would help either. Anyway... I hit the casino a bit late today. I slept through most of the afternoon and hit the casino around 9. I sat down on the table and figure I have only 2 quality players with me here, all the rest are donkeys. I [View Full Entry]

By richieaus1983
July 23rd 2008

first day playing poker

Asia » Macau » Macau

Instead of posting/emailing/messaging everyone that is interested in my poker adventures here in macau, ive decided to do a blog. Thanks for the idea alisha. Its going to start from today since my first day here consisted of sleeping, watching tv and adjusting to the heat by eating lots of icecream. Macau is the asian version of las vegas. There is a casino on every corner but there are ONLY 2 casinos that have poker. Luckily one of them is a $4 cab ride from aaron and zels place. After my day recovery from jet lag and getting use to the [View Full Entry]

By Andy501
July 22nd 2008

An Englishman in Macau

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The biggest casino in Macau, the Lisboa.

The End of Asia So, as planned I'm continuing in my catch up quest to get this up to date with my travels. Since the last blog I've been traveling round the North Island of New Zealand which has been amazing so far. Wont go into too many deatails although I feel I should let you all know I managed a Sky Dive Yesterday over Lake Taupo which was amazing. Dropped out of a little plane from 15,000ft and over a minute of freefall before the parachute opens, awesome! Anyway, for now I'm just gonna try and cover my few days [View Full Entry]

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