View over Largo do Senado (Senate Square) and city on Macau Peninsula
Gambling, greenery and glitz in a cultural mix.
Macau is a city with two faces: the fortresses, churches and food of former colonial masters Portugal speak to a uniquely Mediterranean style on the China coast. And yet Macau is also the self-styled Las Vegas of the East. The last few years have seen once-sleepy little Macau booming.
Street stall with hanging Chinese sausages and light bulbs
Today's Macau woos commerce and tourism like never before, taking a tradition of gambling to new extremes. While the profileration of mega-casinos means there's plenty of places to try your hand with Lady Luck, many of Macau's pleasures are relaxed and laidback, architectural and atmospheric.
Chinese Opera singer, holding single note for twenty minutes
Crab Soup from Restaurante Litoral, which offers Macanese and Portuguese cuisine
Dried food shop, very brightly lit, in street on Macau Peninsular
Facade of St Paul's Cathedral: rest was destroyed, accidentally, by fire
Night view of Largo do Senado (Senate Square), on Macau Peninsula
New Year's Dragon Dance, in which movements make dragon appear to be flying
Bicycle rickshaw driver taking a break
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