Sunday, August 10, 2008

From Macau

I'm now in my last day in Macau. On the day I arrived I walked around and went to see the main places. Yesterday night I met some guys in the hostel and we went to some discos in Macau in the good old erasmus style, getting drunk with beers from the supermarket and then head to the main places MP3, MP4, DD2, DD3 (they are not very creative with names here).
Today I went to the Grand Waldo casino to play texas hold'em and I had the chance to participate in the first rebuy poker tournment in china. Payed 9euros to get in and bought a rebuy later for the same price. Finished in 12 out of 37 players, didn't win anything but it was a very good experience for the price payed.

Nowadays Macau is the new Las Vegas of the Asia, with the highest-volume gambling in the world and with the biggest casinos. The Venetion Macau is the biggest casino in the world and the second largest building.
Apart from the gambling scene there are also some cultural stuff to see from the time Macau was a portuguese colony. I didn't see many portuguese people, they say 2% are portuguese, but still most of the stuff is written in chinese and portuguese.

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