I had a free day yesterday and decided to see some more of Macau. It is quite a small city and I had already done most of the main tourist sites on my previous visit last year, including the museum, fort, etc, so there was not a whole lot more to do. I went for a walk round the old port area where there were a number of churches and other historic buildings associated with Macau’s past as a major trading post for the Portuguese. I ate lunch in a Portuguese seafood restaurant. It is interesting to see how the Portuguese influence as merged with the Chinese, in terms of architecture, cuisine and the local people themselves, many of whom show obvious traces of their Portuguese ancestry. I don’t think you could say the same of Hong Kong.
In the evening I just sat in a bar people watching, there being not much else to do in Macau if you are not into gambling.
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