Or Macao. For various reasons, I was only able to stay one night. NOT ENOUGH. Will be going back. I spent most of my time there giggling because my Spanish allowed me to understand just about ALL the Portuguese I saw!
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- Just past the gate from Gombei Port in China…
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- …is the entry to Porto Centros, Macao.
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- The fountain before The Sands hotel and Casino near the harbour.
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- What street is The Sands Casino on?
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- “Lotus Flower in Full Bloom,” across from the Sands.
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- The flags of China and Macau.
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- One ferry arriving from Hong Kong, another just leaving.
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- A Cine-Concert…The Triplets of Belleville, with live music. How fricking cool is that?!!
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- This fellow was just handing out lucky red envelopes to kids!
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- This is part of Fisherman’s Wharf, very nice restaurants and shops in slightly kitcshy new buildings made to look “old”.
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- Beautiful fountain in between faux Italian and Tudor English houses!
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- The aptly named Harbourview Hotel. Not sure what style architecture this is…
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- Lovely red lanterns everywhere.
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- Most of the buildings in this area were old-style, but the brick and stone of these tells me they’re genuine.
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- Looks like a Roman column, doesn’t it? Hee here!
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- The “Roman” column overlooks the “Roman ruins” of the Babylon Casino!
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- “Roman” Amphitheatre. I kept telling myself “I should hate this…but I don’t!”
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- “Give me your money to eat! Bwa ha ha!”
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- New Year’s Display on Fisherman’s Wharf.
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- How much more like Vegas can you GET! So ridiculously awesome!
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- LOVE THIS.
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- Jardim Vasco de Gama Garden, as seen from the front of my hotel!
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- Sports centre to one side of the Garden.
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- Orange trees. I am NOT exaggerating, orange trees EVERYWHERE!
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- Fountains of Vasco de Gama Garden.
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- Vasco de Gama himself.
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- And this is my hotel, from the Garden. If you didn’t hate me yet, you do now. 😀
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- I treated myself to dinner at Fado, the Portuguese restaurant in my hotel. These are fresh codfish cakes.
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- All of this came with every meal! 6 different breads, 3 flavours of olive oil, carrots steeped in olive oil, olive tapenade, and garlic-tomato butter.
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- Seriously, ALL the seafood. This is shrimp and bread stew. Happy Place.
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- The church of St Michael.
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- This is a bridal shop!!
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- Rua Horta Companhia Rotunda.
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- I wish I could tell you what this shop sold, but it was shut!
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- The other half of the crazy-awesome display.
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- The air smelled different in Macau. It took me a while to realise ALL of these shrines had incense burning. Those are wrapped cookies in front.
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- Just hanging off someone’s door. Amazing.
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- New Year’s decorations down a street median.
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- I couldn’t stop marvelling at the streets here…
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- Monkey see…
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- …monkey do.
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- Tap Seac Square.
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- Tap Seac Square.
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- St Lazarus Church.
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- Another church. I lost track. I think the Portuguese colonists were Catholic.
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- Bonito gato negro, esta desayando.
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- This was a church, now it appears to be apartments. Sigh…
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- The paving on the street is modern–it fits around manholes–but it’s very nicely done.
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- Looking down from the ruins of St Paul’s. The crazy pointy building at the back is The Grand Lisbon Hotel and Casino. (Macau has a LOT of those.)
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- The New Year display before St Paul’s.
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- The obligatory selfie.
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