Macau Tourism and Travel Guide

Macau Attractions

Macau Museums

There's no better way to experience and to learn about Macau's culture, history, and its people, than to pay a visit to the various Museums around the territory. Don't miss the Macau Museum located right under the Fortress Tower. Other interesting museums include the Maritime, Grand Prix, Wine Museums, and a couble of Sacred Art Museums

Macau Squares provide that rest and green ambiance and sometimes, food. Comes in big and small squares, plazas and gardens located all over the city.

Discover Macau Heritage and decide for yourself whether we really deserve to belong to the UN heritage sites.

Time your trip with Macau Festivals, some of the most colorful festivals in Asia.

Modern Resorts and Entertainment Centers

The Cotai Strip is a 5.2 km2 of reclaimed land between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau which is trying to replicate the glitz, glamour and excitement of the Las Vegas Strip with the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Wynn Resorts, MGM, Galaxy, City of Dreams, Macau Studio City and Harrah's Entertainment, Butch Harmon and Caesars Golf Macau.

Luxurious Wynn Macau Resort
Step into the world of Wynn Macau and be pampered by unparalleled luxury. Sleek, sophisticated and with an unmistakable sense of style, Wynn Macau is the fabulous new luxury hotel destination of Wynn Resorts.

Sands Casino Macau
The $240 million Sands Casino Macau is owned by Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands. It is designed to have 319 table games, 600 slot machines, 18 restaurants, bars and entertainment venues near the ferry terminal. The 163,000 square foot casino will also have a hotel with fifty-one rooms.

The Macau Fisherman's Wharf
the first theme park in Macau, is a place you should never miss in your stay in Macau. What more, entrance is FREE. And for this reason you may want to come back again and again.

Visit some of the islands more then 40 Macau Temples. More suburban temples rather than distinctive in style, a system of temples hardly seen in the Mainland China, Hong Kong nor Taiwan.

Coloane Island is the southernmost island of Macau, just south of Taipa and Cotai Strip. This is the green oasis of Macau and offers beaches, nature walks, golf, small villages, etc.

You should visit the Macau Tower CEC at least once. This tenth tallest free-standing tower in the world is a popular landmark where you can enjoy an observation deck with panoramic views, restaurants, theaters, shopping malls. Extreme sports enthusiasts can walk around the open outer rim, try bungee jumping, or climb to the mast.

Macau Entertainment

Check out our Macau Shop for souveniers: t-shirts, mugs and calendars. More items coming soon!

Casinos are the biggest draw of the city. They are open 24-hours a day and its FREE to enter. Have fun but play moderately.

Hotel Saunas sometimes will provide the best place to get some peace and quiet after walking all over the city.

Macau also offers entertainment and betting at the Macau Jockey Club. Horse-racing mainly takes place every Tuesday and Saturday or Sunday at the race-course on the Taipa Island of Macau.

Macau Food is as famous as its variety and quality. Travel to this once Portuguese city to find Western gourmet food in the top hotels, clubs and restaurants as well as cheap but excellent Cantonese cuisine in the side walk stalls.

Macau Travel Information

Digital Macau Map is a handheld digital map for personal digital assistants (PDAs), running on both PalmOS and Pocket PC. It displays a map of the whole Macau territory including Macau peninsula, and Taipa and Coloane islands.

Getting There: Get to Macau via Air (see Macau Airport, Sea or Land. Read our tips and advice.

Macau Airlines have scheduled air services to Bangkok, Beijing, Brussels, Danang, Ho Chi Minh City, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Lisbon, Pyongyang, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei and other cities in China including Chongqing, Changsha, Dalian, Fuzhou, Hainan, Qingdao, Shenyang, Xi'AN, Xiamen, Yantai and Wenzhou.

Macau Weather is moderate to hot, with an average annual temperature of just over 20°C (68F) and a yearly mean variation between 16°C (50F) and 25°C (77F).

Air Macau Airlines
Air Macau is an airline based in Macau and is the sole carrier of Macau operating to Taiwan, China and south and north-east Asia. The airlines's main base is Macau International Airport (MFM).

Hong Kong Macau Ferry
Several fleets of high-speed Macau ferry vessels serve the 40-mile route between Hong Kong and Macau: jetfoils, turbo-cats, jumbo-cats and hover ferries. More than 100 sailings throughout the day and evening, with all-night service by jetfoils.

The Macau flag
Selected to represent Macao after its re-integration into China was designed by Xiao Hong, a professor of arts and crafts at the Henan University. Just one of over 1,000 proposals. Xiao designed the flag after reading a 600-word tourist guide on Macao.

Macau Visas
Generally required by all visitors for a stay of less than 20 days.All travellers entering or leaving Macau must be holders of valid passports or some others valid travel documents.

WWW Internet is readily available in hotels and cafes. Get yourself aCTM Phone to save on those local calls.

See our Macau Photos Galleries to get better views. We also provide a constant stream of Flickr Photos by people who came to Macau.

Macau in stunning motion timelapse 
Enjoy Macau (SAR China) in stunning motion timelapse. The clip was recorded in December 2009.



Enjoy Macau (SAR China) in stunning motion ...

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