Showing posts with label Ruins of St Paul's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruins of St Paul's. Show all posts

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Macau!

Last stop on our most recent holiday was Macau, to be honest I didn't know that much about Macau apart that it was a former Portuguese colony. I have to say though that the day we visited was HOT - super super HOT!

To get to Macau from Hong Kong you need to catch a ferry, but as you are officially leaving Hong Kong you need to go through the hassles of customs which is a little annoying.

Macau is a really interesting place, it's architecture is quite unlike anything else I've seen in asia and I really love the contrast between the old Portuguese architecture and the modern craziness.



One of the first sights we visited in Macau was the ruin's of St Paul's Cathedral - this was really amazing to see but as you may be able to tell by all the umbrella's in the picture it was so hot. I never really understood using umbrella's in the summer until I moved to Asia - but when it's super hot you really need shade!



After resting in the sun for a while (trust me - we REALLY needed to get out of the sun!) we decided to head up to an old barracks. This was a really cool place which had amazing views of Macau. I would have loved to have stayed there for longer but we both needed a cool drink in the shade.








Here's a few more general photo's of Macau - I love the mix of European and Chinese culture.

I also saw these very strange tee shirts on the streets of Macau - "McHitler" and "Chairman Obama" - up until this moment I thought that Korea had the strangest tee shirts in the world.
Our final stop on our trip to Macau Tower, as everyone knows now, I love visiting towers (for no particular reason). What was especially cool about Macau tower was that it had a bungy jump run by AJ Hackett's company! It's so great seeing Kiwi's doing well in all parts of the world. Someone did a bungy whilst we were on the viewing deck of the tower - it looked totally terrifying!






When we finished at Macau tower we headed back to the ferry for our last night in Hong Kong.