Last week, we had to take a quick visa run (leave the country for visa purposes). The cheapest tickets we would find were to Macau, a Special Administrative Region of China, next to Hong Kong. Macau used to be a Portuguese colony, so the feel of the city (especially the historic district) was very different than other places we have been in Asia.
There was some amazing architecture to admire.
While Macau is mostly known for its many gambling casinos, the most famous historic attraction for tourists is the ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral (above).
Everyone was taking selfies in front of the ruins, so we joined in. :)
Macau is also known as the most densely populated city in the world, and the crazy narrow streets and sky-scraping apartments/hotels support this conjecture. The streets felt like mere sidewalks, which got interesting in a hurry when you tried to share them with a moving vehicle! Thankful the kids are older now...
As we walked through the historic district, the crowds weren't too bad. But as we got into the more touristy part of town, the press of people was unbelievable.
Despite the crowds, we had a lot of fun as a family.
While the visa run was unexpected, we had a lot of fun touring a new country. So thankful for our family and the privilege of going on the adventure called life with this crew!
2 comments:
That's great you got to go to Macau! My parents served there first as missionaries for 4 years, then 15 more years with my father pastoring a bilingual Chinese/English Southern Baptist church. Great fun seeing pictures of your family at places we've been. Hope you got to eat some of Macau's unique treats like the pressed cookies on the way up to the cathedral ruins, the dried salt fish or the meat jerkies they make in big flat sheets with fruit and other flavorings on them. And maybe Ben got to have a steamed fish with its head still on!
Oh, and I can't forget the Lord Stowe's egg custard tarts. Sublime!
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