Macau Tourism and Travel Guide
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Let us guide you along the cobbled stones, worship in 400 year old Mediterranean churches, and contemplate in ancient temples. Join us in dining with exotic Chinese food or indulging ourselves in the Vegas style buffet and Michelin star cuisine. Have fun in the glitzy casinos hopping from Sands Casino, Venetian Macao, Galaxy, Wynn Resorts and of course the Grand Lisboa Casinos.
Ola! Macau Tourism Guide will guide you around the best of Macau. You'll read here more in-depth and interesting stories and descriptions you will never find elsewhere. We've got more historical references and current affairs.
We live and work in Macau and are highly qualified to show you around this lovely speck of China. Check out the great hotel discount deals, the best dumplings in town, job prospects, and more.
Like this vibrant and ever changing city, this web site on Macau tourism is an ongoing work about landmarks, events, hotels, restaurants, books, and things Macau. You will appreciate the 400 years of Portuguese influence and 3,000 years of Chinese history.
Attractions range from heritage sites, modern hotels and casinos, glitzy shows and entertainment, gardens, beaches, nature walks, gardens, world class museums, colorful festivals and family friendly activities. Select your favorites below....
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Read our Neighborhood Guide to the 25 square kilometer of Macau which has seen frenetic growth in the past few years. Today's expansion is fast exanding into and making the two islands to the south, Taipa and Coloane, one bigger island.
Latest Events
The Macau City of Dream was the host of this years' "CantoPop Singers TVB Anniversary Special 2009". This popular Hong Kong concert show, this year celebrating the 42th anniversary of TVB, last Friday 30 October 2009, was hosted outside Hong Kong for the first time ever. Read more.
Macau Friends
It's easy and fun! You can use OlaMacau Friends to meet new international friends, find pen-pals and language learning partners, or meet your ideal match!
Macau Maps
Get your bearings right. Check out our interactive maps. Download the Digital Macau Map
Macau Hotels
Check out best Macau Hotels and Accommodations, includingBudget Hotels, 4Star Hotels, Luxury Hotels and Casino Hotels
Macau Restaurants
There is plenty of good food to be had in Macau. Like any other Chinese, Macau people do eat throughout the day - up to five times a day.
Macau Grand Prix
The Macau Grand Prix highlight is the Formula 3 event and attracts more than 20,000 motor-racing fans from around the world for this high-octane three-day event.
Macau Tours
Macau is such a small place that most Macau tours can be done on foot. We will show you the best Macau tours from ancient St. Paul ruins to the modern 338m high Macau Tower.
Macau Heritage
Your guide from Ama Temple to St Paul Ruins to Lilau Square and St Joseph Seminary. You can find the best descriptions, history and photos here.
Macau Churches,
Discover the baroque Macau Churches, both ancient and new. Find out the buildings and monuments where both missionaries, traders and adventurers got together.
Facts and Figures
Allow us to introduce tourism in Macau and provide resources on maps, festivals, events, history, bibliography, art, architecture, government, articles and other quick facts.
Macau Casinos
Gaming in Macau was legalized in 1847 and since then Macau has become known worldwide as the "Monte Carlo of the Orient”. Gambling Macau-style has changed dramatically since Sands opened in 2004.
Macau Night life
Macau night life: choose among several shows every night at Macau's numerous hotels, casinos, bars and clubs and info on Macau Saunas
Macau Investment
Offshore Investment Banking is located outside the country of residence of the depositor, typically in a low tax jurisdiction that provides financial and legal advantages.
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 Depth
Macau News
Your favourite Macau Daily News. Real time Macau News
and Weather Links and Feeds. Link to the important Macau Daily News Papers and other regional
online news.
Macau Government
The Macau Government comprises a 10-member executive Council, headed by the chief executive, and a 27-member Legislative Council.
Macau Tower Movie and Virtual Tour
If you cannot come to Macau (yet) then let Macau come to you. Here we present a virtual tour de force of Macau. From Olá! Macau Tourism Guide.
Real Estate property market of Macau
A guide to the Macau real estate - the property market as well as guide to apartments and flats.
Macau Jobs and openings in top companies
Resources for Macau jobs; Search thousands of Hong Kong and Macau jobs. Casino Jobs resources for those interested in working and/or employing in casinos, hotels, restaurants, bars, cruise ships, etc., that are part of the gaming and gambling industry.
Best Macau, Hong Kong, China and Asia Books
Recommended readings to really get to know Macau, Hong Kong and China. More Macau Reading Guide
Macau Tourism Guide Articles
Going can be a great adventure for some. So for your information and entertainment we've selected several articles from all over the Web for your reference.
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Banking lawas are quite attractive. Check out the Offshore Law and Offshore Banking.
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