HK-Day 4-Tuesday
Our trip to Macau, SAR, China. This is a former Portuguese colony.
That means, lots of Churches, graves, and less English.
It was raining much of the day.
We start off early in the morning. The Tin Hau station is empty. At Tsim Sha Tsui we catch the 7:45a TurboJet ferry to Macau.
In Macau, we’re approached by a tour guide who wants MA$750 each to show us around. Macau has their own money, MOP, that is fixed to 97% HK$. Thankfully, most shops don’t care, so I never have to exchange currency. In fact, as Jim learns, even the local ATM won’t give Macau MOP currency.
We catch the #23 bus into town from the airport after a false start walking around the Macau Race Track. We end up near the start of a Lonely Planet Macau Walking tour and attempt to follow it. There’s always a Starbucks nearby – HK, Macau, USA.
The Portuguese history means there are many, many, churches cemeteries in contrast to the new casinos and busy downtown casino area.
As we walk down and up tiny, turning roads, we get lost over and over again in the light rain. Scooters are clearly the main form of transportation here.
- St. Augustine’s Church
- Getting electricity and cable seems to be as easy as splicing your neighbors feed.
- Estrado di Cemiterio
- Village Squares
- Dim Sum lunch
- Huge Casinos
- Luxury Shopping
- St. Lawrence’s Church
- St. Joseph’s Seminary & Church
- Engrish
- A-Ma Temple – smell the incense
- Macau Naval Museum (Closed)
- Walk to the Macau Tower
- Macau Tower – I’m afraid of heights ’’and’’ the prices to walk outside and bungy were high. Oddly, there was an art exhibit in the connecting building and the Da Vinci Exhibition (no photographs allowed)
- TurboJet back to Hong Kong
- Sushi dinner back in Tin Hau district
- Assorted mementos and subway diagrams
