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On Monday we travelled from Hong Kong to Macau, getting some more stamps in our passports (Hong Kong exit stamp, and Macau entry stamp!) and got the hotel shuttle bus to where we were staying. The hotel didn’t look like much from outside, but inside it was very plush! We even had a room upgrade for free, and ended up in a really big room with a large flatscreen widescreen tv on the wall - quite a difference from the hotel room in Hong Kong which was very small!

The main money-maker in Macau are the casinos - Stanley Ho is the big name round here, having made his fortune through owning casinos. We actually saw him doing a press conference at the Grand Lisboa, which is a big casino he owns. Even our hotel had a mini-casino in it. Of course, most of the locals don’t have much to do with the casinos unless they work there - the main visitors are from mainland China, followed by Hong Kong. Because Macau was previously administered by Portugal, it can feel like you’re in southern Europe at times when walking around - but then you hear Cantonese being spoken, and see the peoples faces and realise you’re in China!

We returned to Hong Kong today, and would both like to visit Hong Kong & Macau again, but not in the summer! A different time of year so it would be easier to do things. Tomorrow we are off to Singapore for a couple of nights before heading to Perth in Australia.