From Macau

I was too exhausted yesterday to post. Insufficient sleep and too much food. Then today i had an early morning in order to catch the 9:00am ferry to Macau (that's 11am Sydney time) - my prolonged lack of sleep is definitely catching up to me - what i need is a nice long relaxing massage... ahhh.

Anyway Macau was an experience, so many casinos so little money. (i did walk away with an extra $35HKD from the pokies, probably beginners luck)

We visited the Venetian, very nice shopping area - reminiscent of Venice (not that i've been there) but the atmosphere is nice and relaxing and the people steering(?) the gondolas along the canals have great voices (opera style) - shops are the same as those in HK so you probably won't buy much there (not to mention the fact you'd have to put your shopping in all the casinos you visit). The casino itself is too crowded, i personally liked Wynns best, it wasn't too crowded (at least when we were there it wasn't but that was around 10:30) but the Venetian casino floor looked like a market. We also went to Lisboa (but it's old and I didn't like it very much), the Emperor Garden was also boring and stinky (from cigarette smoke), also the dealers looked very bored - wouldn't make you want to play much.

I'll post pictures later (when i'm using my own computer and internet connection)

The day was filled with food (again):

beef wonton noodle soup
some kind of pancake thing
shark fin soup
some chicken thingy
veges
a pot of tofu/mushroom stuff

The good thing about HK is that you can stuff yourself and after you walk around a bit you're hungry again Q(though, that could be a bad thing in the long run)... i shall have to keep a track of my waist line to see if it expands or shrinks...