A-Ma Temple 3

Chinese buildings, esp temples, always have stone lions at the front door to scare away evil spirits and bring luck and prosperity. According to legend, if you turn the stone ball in their mouth, you'll get good luck. Chinese sculptors are really skillful, because when they carve the mouth, they leave behind a piece of rock in the mouth and carve the rock into a ball right inside the mouth... (The stone ball is made larger than the mouth's opening so that the ball can't be taken away...)

Macau - so lovely, that I visited the city 3 times in 2006!

January 15th 2007
Macau became a colony of Portugal after the Portuguese reached Macau in the early 1550s. On 20th Dec 1999, Macau was returned to China, and ever since, Macau is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Prior to 2006, the last time I visited Macau was in 1997 with my family and grandma. We only spent 3 hours in Macau, as we were on our way from Zhuhai to Hong Kong. It ... read more

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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 2... ... read more

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