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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cMacau has grown out of its rep as a Las Vegas knock-off and into a m\u00e9lange of new world glamour and old world grit,\u201d wrote Lonely Planet travel writer Megan Eaves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith six times more revenue from gaming than Las Vegas, Macau has seen a huge boom in recent years,\u201d she wrote. \u201cNouveau riche mainland Chinese have begun to flock here to enjoy the buzz of China’s gambling hub.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the casino culture belies Macau’s true charms. Its Portuguese heritage has created a fusion cuisine that combines European, African, Indian and Chinese elements.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd where else in the world can you make an incense offering at an ancient Chinese Buddhist temple in the morning, take the world’s highest bungee jump in the afternoon, have a Michelin-starred meal in the evening topped off with a bottle of Portuguese vino, don your finest for a glitzy show and then pull up a plastic stool for some Chinese street food as a midnight snack?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Eaves continued by writing: \u201cWith a spiffy new light rail system connecting the peninsula and islands in the works, as well as major hotel brands like Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott arriving and a slew of new glam casinos under construction, 2015 promises to be a banner year for Macau. And the completion of the world’s longest sea bridge between Macau, Hong Kong and mainland China means it’ll be easier than ever to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n
In writing her review, Ms Eaves drew a list of \u201clife-changing experiences\u201d such as exploring the back streets of Macau’s UNESCO World Heritage old town \u2013 \u201ca mix of Portuguese and Chinese architecture found nowhere else on earth\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSampling the delights of Macanese cuisine, which mixes elements of Portuguese, African and Chinese food \u2013 think prawn, chorizo and olive-laden ‘Portuguese fried rice’,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrill-seekers shouldn’t leave without a leap off the world’s highest commercial bungee platform or a cool stroll around the 233-metre-high Skywalk at Macau Tower,\u201d she summed up.<\/p>\n
Details: Macau Government Tourist Office, phone (02) 9264 1488, www.macautourism.gov.mo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lonely Planet – http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/best-in-travel\/regions<\/a><\/p>\n Traveloscopy<\/a> | <\/span> MACAU has been listed by Lonely Planet as one of the top 10 regions in the world to explore in 2015. The giant guide book publisher ranked the former Portuguese enclave with such fascinating destinations as Italy’s Milan, Malta’s Valetta, Austria’s Vienna, India’s Chennai, Canada’s Toronto, Argentina’s El Chaten, and, of course, Turkey’s Gallipoli which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"