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MADE IN MACAU PART 1: THIS IS TAIPAAAAAAAAAAAA!
So the bridal unit and I spent Monday and Tuesday in Macau, which we’ve been to a several times before – it’s only an hour down the Guangdong coast by high-speed jetfoil, after all – but my last few trips were mostly job-related. So it was a chance to take a few hundred pictures and dump them on Photobukkit for yr amusement.
For beginners, Macau is comprised of three parts: the main city and two islands (Taipa and Coloane), as well as the Cotai Strip that sits between Taipa and Coloane where water used to be.
Macau looks the way it does because it was a Portuguese colony until 1999 when Portugal gave it back to China under a similar “special administrative region” arrangement as Hong Kong (which basically means we get to run our own affairs but China owns the pink slip). It also looks the way it does because the major industry in gambling – Macau is a casino town, and ever since Stanley Ho lost his monopoly, Vegas bigwigs have moved in to establish familiar-sounding names like Sands, Wynn, The Venetian and the MGM Grand.
The result: half the city looks like a Portugal/China mashup, and the other half looks like the set of Ocean’s 11. Or a Hunter Thompson novel.
Anyway, I’ll break it down into three photosets, starting with this one: shots around Taipa Village, a stone’s throw away from the hotel.
Pretty self-explanatory, more or less. Except for the panda, which I’m not too sure about.
PRODUCTION NOTE: Clicking the mosaic takes you to the entire photo set. So, you know, make plans.
Up next: Fear, loathing and dragons in the Hard Rock Casino!
Village idiot,
This is dF
For beginners, Macau is comprised of three parts: the main city and two islands (Taipa and Coloane), as well as the Cotai Strip that sits between Taipa and Coloane where water used to be.
Macau looks the way it does because it was a Portuguese colony until 1999 when Portugal gave it back to China under a similar “special administrative region” arrangement as Hong Kong (which basically means we get to run our own affairs but China owns the pink slip). It also looks the way it does because the major industry in gambling – Macau is a casino town, and ever since Stanley Ho lost his monopoly, Vegas bigwigs have moved in to establish familiar-sounding names like Sands, Wynn, The Venetian and the MGM Grand.
The result: half the city looks like a Portugal/China mashup, and the other half looks like the set of Ocean’s 11. Or a Hunter Thompson novel.
Anyway, I’ll break it down into three photosets, starting with this one: shots around Taipa Village, a stone’s throw away from the hotel.
Pretty self-explanatory, more or less. Except for the panda, which I’m not too sure about.
PRODUCTION NOTE: Clicking the mosaic takes you to the entire photo set. So, you know, make plans.
Up next: Fear, loathing and dragons in the Hard Rock Casino!
Village idiot,
This is dF