Blogs from Macau, Asia - page 21

After Johan arrived Bangkok, we would like to go travel somewhere together. Our plan was to go to Chiangmai - Pai and/or Chiangrai. Since I really love traveling by train so I offered to go to Chaingmai by train.. but after checking weather news, weather seems to be bad during this time. Warning of storm, heavy rain, mud slide including 3 schools closed has changed our mind. Discussed with Johan and came across with Macau where we rushed through for one day in our 2004 trip. Because of culture mix, beautiful tall building view so we decided to go there again. Macau - The colorful city of casino.. Chinese characters.. Protugese language.. Chinese temple... Cathedral.. Church.. cultural mix is what we found here.. First arrive at airport, got the hotel by misunderstanding where it's located but ... read more

I had a morning flight to Macau. My flight was actually cancelled the day before, and when I called to confirm, they put me on an earlier plane. Good thing my auntie told me to call the airline. I guess she's had that happen a few times in the past. My cousin arranged a car for me to the airport and the driver wouldn't stop talking to me about Buddhism. I really just wanted to sleep and not listen, but I politely listened anyway, considering my getting to the airport in a safe, timely manner was in his hands. When I was boarding the plane, I noticed that the flight was 95% men. No joke. When we got off the plane, most of them continued to transferring flights to China. I guess they were going to ... read more

in der frueh werden wir geweckt. matty ist am aufbrechen, auf nach china, auf in die weite welt, um dann, irgendwann indien zu erreichen. sofort wird weitergeschlafen, vor allem da das toupet gestern mit alkoholaura nachhause gekommen ist. nach einem big john fruehstueck geht es also gen macao ferry terminal. nach einer stunde im flugzeugaehnlichen boot sind wir also in macao. wieder, obwohl garkeine grenze ueberquert wurde, und man eigentlich im gleichen land wie zuvor ist, muss man den ganzen immigrationscheiss durchlaufen, obwohl wir morgen ja wieder weg sind... macao selbst ist eigentlich ganz anders als hongkong, ueberall riesige casinos und die menschen sprechen kein englisch. auch nicht der taxifahrer, weshalb hose ueber funk die gewuenschte destination durchgeben muss, was mangels korrekter portugiesisch-aussprache eher schwer faellt, und die funktante daher keine ahnung hat..... read more

Da vi endte med 9 dage i Guangchou, og vi ogsaa gerne ville have nogle dage i Hong-kong endte det med en een-dags-tur til Macau. Vi tog med bus fra Guangzhou kl 7:45 og ankom ca klokken 11 paa Macou. den lange rejsetid var bl.a. pga. gaenseovergangen mellem Kina og Macao. - Ja, for der er en graense selvom baade Macao og Hong-kong begge er en del af Kina. Macau er en oe hvorpaa Portugiserne fik lov at etablere sig i 1500-tallet. Dette praeger, baade udseendet af folk (dog vildt mange turister), bygninger og madkulturen. Der er bla. en del kirker paa oen. Vi brugte kun dagen paa Macau-halvoen. Her er de fleste servaerdigheder og der er ikke langt imellem dem, og med det menes minutter. Der er tilpas med ting at se til en en-dagstur. ... read more

A 1 hour ferry ride took us from Hong Kong to Macau. At first glance, the place seemed similar to Hong Kong but with some Las Vegas ingredients supplied by the casinos - the cheesiness of the Sands, the tackiness of the Lisboa, the awesomeness of the under-construction Grand Lisboa, and the plain but still opulent Wynn. Subsequent ramblings revealed elements of the mainland (not an enormous amount of English spoken, people staring at us, and more smoking than Hong Kong) as well as Portugal (cuisine, especially baccalau i.e. salt cod, architecture, narrow streets with thousands of mopeds, and street signs written in Portuguese and Chinese). Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule from British ownership attracted much attention in 1997, but the similar return of Macau by the Portuguese 2 years later barely registered on most ... read more