A tour of Macau with Dane and Kirsten

Mike and I went to Macau to meet up with Dane and Kirsten who are working in an international school there. It was a lovely weekend. The streets of Macau are lovely. The Portuguese influence on architecture was such a surprise, there were streets that looked exactly like a European street. (apart from the millions of Chinese people of course!)

This is the remaining facade from St. Paul's Cathedral that was ruined in a fire. If you squint you can see Mike, Dane and me in the middle window.

Mike on a cannon at the Macau fort.

Mike loves these wooden figures with the faces cut out. This was a pair of royal figures, a king and a queen. After taking the picture a Chinese fella came up to us and asked us did we realise that Mike was in the Queen cut out not the King!

The Venetian casino! What an awesome place. We didn't actually gamble while we there there but the inside it just so huge and beautiful you could spend days in there. We spent a few hours in a bar called Morton's which has a really fab cocktail happy hour from 5 -7. You have a choice for 5/6 classic cocktails on special offer and while you are drinking them they bring you free steak sandwiches!! Mmmmm they were so good! We ate so many as they keep bringing them if you keep eating them!

Kirsten, Dane and I at the big Christmas tree in the Venetian.

The Venetian has canals with real gondolas and them men who paddle can sing opera!

The roof is bright blue with clouds so the gamblers don't know that it is night time, hoping they will gamble all night. It was really cool.

The magic tree!!! This was a a feature in the MGM casino. It is called the Tree of Prosperity and it is SUPER cool....that's all I'm going to say about it.

This is A Ma the protector of Macau. It was a huge 20m statue near the Tian Hou temple.

This is the Tian Hou temple.

This is the little village of Coloane. We met up with a few of Dane and Kirsten's work mates for a few drinks there in a little outdoor restaurant. It was really nice, so quiet.


All in all it was a great weekend thanks to Dane and Kirsten. Or as I should say Kirsten, if Dane was in charge of the sightseeing he would have bought us postcards of the sights and showed them to us in the pub!