Macau Travel Tips helps you discover everything about Macau - easily, effortlessly.
Welcome to Macau Travel Tips, the website created specially to help you explore and discover Macau at your own pace. Macau Travel Tips provides tourists, visitors and independent travelers alike with essential information to explore this unique Chinese city with a long Portuguese heritage. Within this website are well researched articles covering every tourist attraction worth visiting in Macau, accompanied by illustrative photographs and location maps. Practical tips are also provided to help you enjoy your visit, from the time you arrive in Macau, to the time you are ready to head for home. For your added convenience, you can book accommodation and look for books related to Macau, all at Macau Travel Tips.
When I create Macau Travel Tips, I want it to be really easy to use. I hope you can find whatever you are looking for quickly and intuitively. No information is more than 2 clicks from the homepage, so you never have to dig deep. To update yourself on what's up at Macau Travel Tips, go to the Newsletter Subscription Center, and subscribe to your own free Macau Travel Tips Newsletter. It is delivered regularly direct to your Inbox, giving you a glimpse of this wonderful city in Northern Thailand.
Exploring Macau
Macau Travel Tips is created with budget travelers in mind, particularly those who will be arriving in Macau without a tour package in hand. It doesn't mean that if you arrive in Macau on a tour, you won't benefit from this website - the articles I've written describing each tourist sight should certainly enhance your knowledge. But for free independent travelers, I have included tips on "getting there" for each sight, illustrated with Google Map, so that you can be sure of its location. Macau is reasonably small for most people to explore it on foot. If you don't feel like walking, buses are also plentiful, and since Macau is such a small place, you do not need to fear getting lost. If you take a wrong bus, get down, walk a bit or take another. It is a lot of fun, and I'm sure you will come back with wonderful experiences.
The Table of Content on the right column provides you a quick list of links. Tourist sights are arranged in alphabetical order. For some background knowledge about Macau, there's nothing better than to read a little bit about Macau. Also, it's good to learn about about Macau's History. If you're planning a trip to Macau, it's good to check also what's the weather's like, right from this website.
Once you have settled down and are ready to explore Macau, we are here to help you. On this website are detailed articles describing all the tourist attractions of Macau. They are among the most comprehensive you can find anywhere on the web! And it's all original material that will enrich your understanding about Macau, whether you are a tourist, a tourist guide or even someone intending to make Macau your home.
Macau Entry Requirements
If you're a citizen of the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and most European countries, you do not need a visa to visit Macau, for up to twenty days. Make sure you have a passport with at least six months validity. Macau, although part of China, has a separate immigration procedure. If you are thinking of entering China from Macau, you'd need to get a China visa for that.
Your arrival at the Macau International Airport and/or the Macau Ferry Terminal is likely to go smooth - the customs officials rarely disturb incoming tourists - but of course, that does not mean you can bring in drugs or firemans.
Guide for First Timers
There's different things to thrill different visitors to Macau. If you are going there for the casinos, visit the pages I've written on that topic. If you want to delve deep into Macau's history and attractions, you'd find a lot of information on this website. Just follow the links in the Table of Contents on the right column.
The old city of Macau was recognized by Unesco as a World Heritage Site in 2005. In preparation for that, Macau has had all its heritage sites spruced up. New signboards have been put up so it is now very easy for you to visit and explore all the sights in Macau, especially those in Macau peninsula, on foot. For sights farther away, in Coloane and Taipa, we will give you information on how to take the bus. It is really a lot of fun and I hope you'd enjoy the visit.
My experience of Macau
What I love about Macau is that it is a very walkable city. I can explore it on my own two feet. And I like it that the city has posted up very clear direction signs all over the old quarters pointing the way to specific tourist sights. That way, you just need to follow the arrow to take you to your next sight. What I don't quite like about Macau is that there are very few bookshops, and hardly any English language travel books in those few bookshops I come across. Granted that the city's bookshops exist to support the needs of the local population, now that Macau is a Unesco recognized World Heritage Site, I want to see more books written about its heritage and sights. I hope my Macau website will be able to provide you the information you need to have a thoroughly great time exploring Macau.
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