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City trips Macau, an offshore financial centre, a tax haven, and a free port with no foreign exchange control regimes, situated 60 km southwest of Hong Kong and 145 km from Guangzhou, on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, facing the South China Sea to the east and south.

Former Portuguese trading post in Southern China.


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Care Rentals China

  Holiday Autos   -    
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

  Sixt   -    

Hotels in China

   -   Hotels all over China

 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

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Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 Kuoni 
Type of holidays : Beach holidays, Cruises, Escorted tours, Family holidays, Golf & Spa.

Thomas Cook

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  Wild Giant Panda [ China ]   -   see Ecotours
Ecotours in Wild Giant Panda reserves in Qinling Mountains. Tours include hiking in zones of nature reserves, with panda watching, birds and wild animals watching, beautiful natural scenes. Wild giant pandas watching is the highlight of the tour.

Travel Guides Macao / Related books

China Travel Guides  [ amazon.co.uk ]

  Lonely Planet Publications

  Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque [Paperback]
Jeremy Tambling (Author), Louis Lo (Author)
Paperback: 300 pages; Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2009; ISBN-10: 9622099386.

  Macao's Saint Paul's Church: A Glimmer of the Baroque in China
Cesar Guillen-Nunez (Author)
Macao's Ruins of St.Paul, whose correct name is the Church of Madre de Deus, is the only example of Baroque art and architecture in China. This book explores anew the now vanished but once renowned Church, as well as the Jesuit university college of which it was part. This work provides a lively critical appraisal of the Church and College, where the first major China-Japan cultural exchange with Europe took place in the 17th century through the agency of the Society of Jesus. Both Church and College disappeared in an 1835 fire and from the perspective of the history of art have remained poorly explored. The author remedies this by imaginatively reconstructing and describing their ground plans, architecture and decoration in the light of new information provided by original documents researched in archives and libraries in Europe and Macao....
Hardcover: 196 pages; Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2008; ISBN-10: 962209922X. 

Transport / How do I travel to Macao

  Macau Airport   -   Macau International Airport

 
Book cheap flights to China at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online.

 

  Airline Tickets macao / Bargain Flights 
Price comparison possible.

Macau has a well-established public transport network connecting the Macau Peninsula, Cotai, Taipa Island and Coloane Island. Buses and taxis are the major modes of public transport in Macau.


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  Macau   -   Government Macao   -   Macau Tourism   -    a heritage of two cultures
Fishermen from Fujian and farmers from Guangdong were the first known settlers in Macau, when it was known as Ou Mun, or 'trading gate', because of its location at the mouth of the Pearl River downstream from Guangzhou (Canton). During ancient times port city was part of the Silk Road with ships loading here with silk for Rome.
In the early 1550s the Portuguese reached Ou Mun, which the locals also called A Ma Gao, 'place of A Ma', in honour of the Goddess of Seafarers, whose temple stood at the entrance to the sheltered Inner Harbour. The Portuguese adopted the name, which gradually change into the name Macau, and with the permission of Guangdong's mandarins, established a city that within a short time had become a major entrepot for trade between China, Japan, India and Europe. It also became the perfect crossroad for the meeting of East and West cultures.

  Macau Peninsula
  Cotai Strip
  Taipa Island
  Coloane Island

  Historic Centre of Macau   -   listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO
Includes some twenty-five historic monuments and public squares.
  Macau Grand Prix
  Mount Fortress
  Pou Tai Un Temple   -   in Taipa
Theplace for the Feast of Tou Tei, the Earth god, in February.
  St. Paul's Ruins
  University Macau   -   University of Macau / Universidade de Macau 

  News from Macao  -   Revista Macau [ Portuguese ]
  News from Macao  -   Macau Closer [ English ]
  News from Macao  -   Macao Daily News [ Chinese ]

  Radio & TV Macau   -   Macau TDM

  CNTO - China National Tourist Office USA

  China Internet Information Center   -   China's Official Gateway to News & Information
  China Government Online [ Chinese characters ]

Cuisine  -   Macanese Recipes

Macanese cuisine consists of a blend of southern Chinese and Portuguese cuisines.

  Macanese_cuisine

  Cozinha de Macau   -   Maria Celestina de Mello e Senna
Lisbon, 1998; Vega ISBN 972-699-575-2

History Macao

  History of Macau   -   see Wikipedia
Early history Macau, Portuguese settlement, Macau's golden age [ Religious activity ], Decline Macau, The Hong Kong effect, Slave trade, World War II, Macau and communist China, Handover to the People's Republic of China

Music, Arts & Culture, Events

Both Chinese (Cantonese) and Portuguese are Macau's official languages.

  Culture of Macau
A distinct feature in Macau has been the fusion between the Portuguese and Chinese cultures....

  Dom Pedro V Theatre
  Lou Lim Ieoc Garden
  Macau Cultural Centre

  Macau Ricci Institute
Aim is to continue the process of friendly encounter between Chinese and Western cultures and traditions, which was begun by Matteo Ricci 1552-1610 many years ago [ Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest. In 1582, Ricci started learning the Chinese language and customs in Macau, a Portuguese trading post in Southern China, and became a rare Western scholar who had mastered Chinese classical script ].

  Dragon Boat festival   -   on Nam Van Lake in June
  Lunar Chinese New Year   -   most important traditional festival and celebration
Normally takes place in late January or early February.
  Macau International Music Festival [ MMMF ]


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