The egg tart is a speciality of Macau. It was delicious.

Notice the long incense sticks, that can burn for weeks, so people do not need to visit the temple often to add new incense. Below is part of A-ma temple which was built before the Portuguese arrived in 1555.

For a fee, it is possible to walk around the edge of the Macau Tower, or try a 233 m bungee jump. Is anyone interested in trying the bungee jump with me?

The mullet hairstyle above is optional.

Two views from the 338 m Macau Tower. The plexiglass was all that separated my from the ground.

A statue of Guan Yin, the Chinese goddess of compassion that was constructed by the Portuguese before they turned over the colony to China.

A view of the Casinos in Macau. It looks a bit like a mini-Las Vegas, since there are many buildings that try to transport a bit of another country's architecture, but it is not as over the top. Maybe that's because people are mostly interested in gambling and nothing else. There really wasn't much else to do inside the casinos. A lot construction is underway though because it was only a few years ago that international companies were allowed to inject competition into the gambling scene. It won't be long before casinos must work harder to outdo each other, and I hope that means more to do besides gambling.


The hotel part is under construction, but they already opened up the casino, and have probably made enough profit to pay for the whole building already!

According to the tour guide, in the apartments with immigrants from mainland China (PRC), residents tend to add cages to windows so that they have an extra room. At night, children can sleep outside on the cage balconies.

This barbed wire is to prevent mainland Chinese from crossing over into Macau and was built when it was still a Portuguese colony. Now, many of the rich Macanese live in Zhuhoi, as it has a lot more space left for building than Macau.

The back and front of St Paul's Mother of God Church. Only the facade remains. It looks like the set for a movie, where they wanted to save money by only building the front of the church. The rest of the church was destroyed in a fire in 1835.

If you look closely, you'll see that I'm wearing two stickers. The tour guide said we had to wear them so we can be more easily identified. Luckily, they fell off on their own after a few hours.

Even though Macau gambling takes in more money than Las Vegas, you wouldn't know it by looking at the buildings where most people live.

The largest casino in Macau is still under construction. It is so ugly, most residents wish they could use this cannon to blow it up and start over. This photo was taken from an old Portuguese fort.

Last photos of Lantau Island, HK. The fog cleared up a lot from when I arrived but never completely.

While waiting for the fog to clear I snacked on German sausage and mustard flavored potato chips.

The police are easy to spot in HK.

Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

I had to crop the second photo because a guy was standing on the steps ruining the photo.

I took so many photos through the fog until it finally cleared up.

It was so foggy at first that I couldn't see much. Tourists ignored the "do not throw coin" sign below and kept trying to make the statue "catch" a coin for good luck.

I took the Gondola to Lantau, but it was too foggy to see anything at first.

When I arrived, there was a small tourist village, and even here, there's a Starbucks.

What do you think attracted my attention to this bar? In Asia, Budweiser is considered a premium beer.

Dragonfruit flavored beer? I couldn't resist trying one. The name of the beer is a not so subtle reminder about the right way to get home after drinking too many.