Blogs from Macau, Asia - page 25

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***First of all, my last entry got screwed up and only 1/3 of the story got posted to my website, so if you're still interested, please go back and read it again! Also, since I posted the Hong Kong Delights blog, travelblog has done some crappy restructuring to their site and most of the pictures now have to be opened individually. Sorry for the cruddy new formatting, I have no say since I don't pay a cent for this site. *** For the purpose of my trip, I've labeled Macau a separate country from China (since I had to go through customs in HK and I got some pretty spiffy stamps in my passport). Plus it makes my final tally of countries bigger! However, Macau is technically a region/territory of The People's Republic of China, as ... read more

Wednesday June 21th I woke up really early Wednesday on what me and Richard had agreed would be "museum day" (admission to museums is free on wednesday in Hong Kong) and decided to work on my previous blog at Cyber Clan before leaving. I bought some cheap cookies at 7/Eleven (a cornerstore that is ubiquitous in asian cities) and ate while typing. I didn't have enough time to finish so I went back to the dorm to do some laundry. At that point I realized I had a slight diarhea, not the explosive type but the "I-need-to-go-to-the-toilet-every-hour" type which was annoying. I felt good enough to do something so I went with Richard to Honk Kong Museum of History, which was a 20 minutes walk away. Free stuff is cool, but high quality free stuff ... read more

From Bangkok, I flew with Catherine to Macau on budget airline Air Asia. It was already raining as we arrived and we both got completely soaked while looking for a guest house. Hardly anyone spoke English and we had to rely on a small map and some luck to get us to where we wanted to be. Macau is an interesting place for its architecture and Portuguese influence. The Chinese allowed the Protuguese to establish a settlement in Macau in exchange for conquering the pirates who plauged the area in 1557. Since that time, Macau had become a central trading point between China and foreign markets. Since the establishment of Hong Kong however, Macau has gone in to decline which is evdient through much of its run down and poorly maintained buildings, in stark contrast to ... read more

Coming very close to the end of our HK & Macau campaign. Early morning the public bus outside our hotel took us to Macau Tower. Standing 338m above ground, it is probably the 9th or 10th tallest observation tower in the world. Don’t ask me which tower is the tallest though :P The glass floor panels on the observatory deck at 58th storey were pretty scary at first sight. Afterall, we were looking straight to the ground through the panels. It took a while for all of us to be accustomed to it before finding true courage to sit on the panels. There was a constant worry that the glass panels would somehow give way under our weight. Of course, they never did. And btw, me and S did have some luck with the jackpot machines ... read more