Trip to Macau! :D

Hong Kong is only about an hour away from the former Portuguese colony of Macau, so I went there for the weekend with my roommates.

 You can see how excited they both are to be going! (That's Gavin on the left and Adam on the right)

Macau has become something of a gambling hub with plenty of casinos (and then some). We went to one of the biggest ones first, the Grand Lisboa, which you can see in the background here, with Gavin in the front

This was where we learnt what to do if you have lots of gold leaf left over and nothing to use it for.

Or an elephant tusk

Or two

Or even a 200-carat diamond...

Opposite the Grand Lisboa, there's a much smaller casino where we went next. You can just about see Adam and Gavin at the far right of the picture.

Macau also has some areas where the Portuguese colonial buildings still stand; here we are walking down the main square next to the cathedral (which was nothing special).

We also managed to find a small Buddhist temple. It was being renovated, so there were tools and building materials everywhere on the outside. The inside looked nice though.

Finally, we were just about ready to go home. Here we are in a park next to the sea which happens to overlook the ferry terminal.

All in all it was a great trip, well worth the visit! (And the fact that somehow we all managed to make money in the casinos was just icing on the cake!)