About Macau what to do, gambling, casinos, China Hong Kong

and more. Dozens of gambling palaces makes Macau itself a high roller, the casino revenues are running into billions per year, alone in 2011 a staggering 42 percent revenue came in.

According to some cloudy statistics the city has even overtaken Las Vegas - and the boom just started, most visitors come from Hong Kong and China.

At the baccarat tables, the croupier distribute cards. All seats are occupied, the player in the center with a cigarette between the lips set 10000-12000 Hong Kong dollars per game. He is a lucky chips of 1000 Hong Kong dollars roll in continuously, other people are watching and applaud each time the bank has to pay.

This is a normal day in the Venetian casino Macau.

The gambling hall already starts to fill up in the morning and is full all the day until closing in the night. There are 200 game tables; the people usually play baccarat and blackjack. These casinos did not impose a dress code like in a Singapore casino everyone can come in, no silly you must do this and that and here and there, they try to tap the mass market, this is where the real

money is, not with just a few high roller. The "mass market" is on the Chinese mainland, across the border of the former Portuguese colony of Macau. The Chinese government has an ambivalent attitude to gambling: on the one hand, it prohibits advertising for the casinos of Macau, which was also after his return under Beijing's rule in 1999 as a "Special Administrative Region 'own rules and laws.

Large profits from the Macau casinos

are rolling to Beijing, a real money machine for the government in Beijing which issues all necessary permits and as in China almost everything is money driven, that’s the place where the “music plays” since the power of money is evident.

Gambling visitors from China

make up about 60 percent. In 2011 a total of nearly 25 million tourists came to this gambling paradise, about ten percent more than the year before, Macau itself has about half a million inhabitants. The 34 casinos are gold mines. In 2011, 33.9 billion U.S.

Macau Casinos

Macau gambling and shopping

dollars flowed into the coffers of the operators, 42 percent more than the year before.

Between the two main islands of Macau, Taipa and Coloane, is a narrow strip of land that is piled on and on, to make room for entertainment. At the so-called Cotai Strip is the Venetian - a huge building with authentic replicas of the Doge's Palace and the Rialto Bridge of Venice. The building includes a big shopping mall where all branded goods from all over the world are available.

When having enough from shopping and gambling take one of the gondolas and glide through an artificial "Canale Grande". The female and male gondoliers from around the world sing "Santa Lucia" and "O sole mio", yes, no yoke.

Everything is directed to amusement, entertainment and fun to get you into the right moos for gambling, even if its only a casual game the casinos make the money via bulk.

Macau what to do?

Easy to answer, its gambling and entertainment. Soon, close to the Venetian a new casino will. From the mist in the distance construction can be seen, this are the skeletons of the new Galaxy with six casinos golden cupolas plus and a 60,000-square-foot theater complex, Investment: 2.1 billion U.S. dollars. Other building sites are highly competitive. On the seafront, next to the airport, a second ferry harbor was set up where every 30 minutes Blue catamarans bring new

Macau what to do

Players from Hong Kong come in by
turbojet ferry and other ferries.

players from Hong Kong.

Some days the border officials at Macao cant cope with the huge crowd streaming in. Most young people at Macao try to get a job at the casinos they continuously need more people and they pay better than any other normal business in the city. After the Beijing governments withdraw the former casino king Stanley Ho's monopole in 1994, the market virtually exploded, more and more land for new casinos, hotels and shopping centers was acquired. Even the old tycoon Ho, who tried to block the competition as

much as he could finally benefited, now he makes more profits than ever before.

Soon, Chinese high-speed trains

will stop near Macau and bring even more tourists to gamble. On the Cotai Strip is space for 12 more resorts and estimations are that by 2020 the annual gross revenues will rise around $ 300 billion. The casino operator must pass around 40% of their profits to the government of Macao, Beijing cut of it is unknown.

About Macau

Macau is situated at the southeast coast of China; it is one of the special administrative region of the country because of the former Portuguese colonial times, the same as it Is with Hong Kong wich was under British colonial rule.

This is one of Asia's top gambling destination, although some Casinos have been built in Singapore (another more or less Chinese city) they are no match for Macau. The charm of the city comes from colonial flair which is still visible everywhere in terms of buildings and environ. The cities name comes from Magao (A-Ma Temple), a temple which was dedicated to Mazu, the sacred sea goddess. Legend tells when the Portuguese first arrived here in the sixteenth century, one of the crew asked a fisherman for the name of the place the fishermen he obviously misunderstanding the question and answered 'Magao' – since the A-Ma Temple was just in front of them. The Portuguese made Macau out of it and this is now since more than 400 years, in 1999the place was given back to China.

With around half a million natives the population and 27 sqkm it’s rather small compared to the usual well known Chinese cities such as Shanghai and other but there are very big cities in close proximity such as Hong Kong, Guangzhou and other.
The core of the city is on the peninsula with plenty of Chinese and Western influence and style. It’s a very interesting mix of traditional and modern. There are small islands around which are currently used to expend the place to built more casinos, hotels and resorts the place virtually scream gambling and entertainment .

A sightseeing walk around could start at Golden Lotus Square to explore the historical and cultural heritages, but about 95% percent of the Chinese people streaming in every day are not coming for sightseeing, they come for a game and hope to return home with plenty of cash, usually they return with less money as they came .

Largo do Senado, the pretty main square with some with well maintained Old Portuguese buildings and other in a rather baroque style is the downtown of the city and one of the main shopping area, other shopping mall in the casinos make a fierce competition. Monte Fort a excellent preserved old fort show some of the old highlights. The Museum of Macau tells the story the city's past. The A-Ma Temple, built during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), is dedicated to the goddess A-Ma, a very popular pilgrim destination throughout the year.