Originally Posted by
thursday
2 years is a long time in Macau. The harbourfront has sprouted a volcano, a lost Inca paradise, the science museum, the fisherman's wharf. It's too much.
Then go to the cotai strip. Venetian on one side, City of dreams on the other, and a huge Galaxy development next to that. A huge building site.
The quaint Macau I used to know is gone. Gone, gone, gone. All the shops along the Almeida Ribeiro are shut. Closed 'cos the landlords hiked the rents and are waiting for an offer from the developers.
It's just glitz, glamour, gambling and whores. What a shame.
Again, I know what you're saying, but the places I showed on the photos are still there, and I know they're just as quiet as when I took those pics, as I still visit Macau about twice a year.
I don't go to Fisherman's Wharf, I don't go over to Cotai. I don't even go to Wynn or MGM. The only place that I feel the mainland crowds are at the ferry terminal (sometimes), and around Senado Square/St Paul's. But as you can tell from my photos, nobody goes into the Leal Senado with its beautiful courtyard right in the middle of the city. Or inside the St. Dominic's, even though hundreds of mainlanders stand outside of it trying to take pictures.
Or check out the Casa Garden, or Lou Lim Ioc Garden, or up to the Ghia Lighthouse, and so on. They are no more crowded than 5 or 10 or 20 years ago.