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Macao Peninsula


Macao of China's territory since ancient times is a part of.

Macao belongs to the original Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province (now the Zhuhai City). In 1535 the Portuguese Macao Government officials and bribery, a berth terminal, the right to trade. 1553, the Portuguese excuse exposure Waterlogging goods, forced the shore of the rent and, through bribery of local officials in the Chinese official in Macau in 1557 and settle in the same year started using the name of Macao. 1849, the Portuguese colonialists have occupied the Macao Peninsula, (B + water) and Aberdeen Island Road roundabout. 1887, the Portuguese colonialists in the "Sino-Portuguese meeting about grass" into the "Portuguese Macao Yongzhu management" message. In December, the Qing government and Portugal signed the "Treaty on trade and good" again confirmed that "some grass" reference in Macao. April 1928, the Chinese government informed the termination of Portugal "and a good trade treaty." June 1986, in Beijing on the Sino-Portuguese Macao held the first round of talks. April 1987, the two governments signed the Sino-Portuguese "on the Macao issue a joint statement," declared: Macau (including the Macao Peninsula, (B + water) and Aberdeen Island Road roundabout) is China's territory, People's Republic of China will On December 20, 1999 to resume the exercise of sovereignty over Macao.

? ? Macau in southern China's Pearl River estuary west side, and across the sea from the eastern side of Hong Kong, only 61 kilometers apart; latitude and longitude position: longitude 113 ° 34'47 "-113 ° 35'20", latitude 22 ° 06'40 "-22 ° 13'01". Macao, including the Macao Peninsula, (B + water) and Aberdeen Island Road roundabout. Total land area (including reclamation area) is about 23.5 square kilometers.

? ? Macao is a tropical monsoon climate, warm rainy. Main points winter and summer and fall, spring and autumn short-term rather than obvious. Hot summer and wet, cold winter slightly Gan, Wen-chun and more fog, sunny autumn. The coldest year in January, the average temperature of 14. 6 ?, Low 5 ? are still more than the hottest July, the average temperature of 28.5 ?, the hottest up to 32 ?. Annual rainfall of 2,013 mm.

? ? Macao's major traditional festivals are the Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year Chusi the "God of Wealth," the Lunar New Year on July 14, "Menglan Day", Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals.

Accommodation:
     Macao Tour, first-class equipment from a five-star hotel (the hotel) to the economy of hotels, from apartments to villas, and even elegant resort hotels, considerable room for choice.

     Normally, most do not need hotel rooms booked in advance, and during weekends, holidays, in particular, a number of major festivals and events such as the Lunar New Year, Easter, Christmas, with the Grand Prix racing, there are seven or eight On the tourist season, hotel often fully booked, so to the best first book a room. Some hotel in the tourist low season, the relatively large price discounts.

     Complete all kinds of entertainment can be said that the common characteristics of Macao hotels, many hotels, nightclubs and even a sauna, so that tourists can not go out to enjoy good service. More famous are: the domain of the domain of the hotel sauna, Lisboa Hotel Lisboa health Finland Bath, the new God of Wealth at the Tianhe hotel nightclub, the new president at the hotel Galaxia nightclub, the most famous is the Lisboa Hotel Lisboa Casino.

Transportation:
     Bus (bus)
     Macao's urban areas have large buses and mini-buses, particularly in the Taipa and Coloane, and the frequency very close, the stations are used, the Portuguese description of the various bus routes licensing. All buses are no outlets, and are air-conditioned.
     And from the Macao Peninsula and Taipa Island between a bus 11,22,28 A, 30,33 and 34 road to the airport are AP1 Road; bus 21,21 A, 25,26 and 26 A road from Macau, Taipa Road Central. Macao's urban areas by bus in each 2.5 yuan, 3.3 yuan to the Taipa and Coloane to 4-5 yuan, five yuan to the beach Heisha, the Macao International Airport to 3.3 yuan. In addition, there are also many shuttle buses in the urban streets of Macao.
     Bus Time: 6:00 or 6:25-0:00.
Reminder: tourist who can avoid the morning and evening peak travel time, we can more easily use of any means of transport to the various tourist attractions. Visitors can also bring their own best a map of Macao, for inspection purposes.

     Taxi (taxi)
     Macao's taxi body is black, yellow roof is milk. 1.5 km starting MOP 10 yuan for every subsequent 200 Mega to one yuan, parking charges, pending further off one yuan per minute, if bulky luggage, each subject to three yuan. Macao Peninsula between Aberdeen and does not require additional fees from Taipa to the ring road, in addition to fares, incurring additional surcharge of 2 yuan, from the Macao Peninsula to Coloane Island, to the additional costs five yuan.
Macao is to have telephone service called "on-call taxis," the body is bright yellow, if the need is to be called the General Desk (Tel: 519519,3988800), note the location, total Taiwan will Paiche Shuttle. Charges and the same taxi.
     Car Rental
     Rental car
     Macao has provided jeep rental services companies, each vehicle can carry four people, usually costs 450 yuan MOP, weekends and holidays from 500 yuan MOP. General 9:00-18:00 count day. Where the age of 21-year-old, holders of international driving licence can hire such a jeep.
     Car Rental Company:
     Hua-Guo companies (Avis Rent-a-car)
     Address: Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

     Phone: (853) 336789 / 701786

     Fax: (853) 314112
    
     Hong Kong Office Tel: (852) 2559-6513

     Happy Car Rental Company Limited (Happy Mokes)
     Address: Macau ferry terminal arrival hall Room 1025
     Phone: (853) 439393 / 726868
     Fax: (853) 726888
     Hong Kong Office Tel: (852) 2541-2011
     Rent motorcycles (motorcycle)
     Fine points of motorcycle rental Tourism Co., Ltd. (New Spot Tourism Bike Rental, Ltd.)
     Address: Macao's new border control points Reclamation Street London Underground pearl shop building AE
     Phone: (853) 750880 / 751852
     Fax: (853) 751852

     Rent a bike (bicycle)
     If you want to leisurely way to easily roam Macao, Cycling is a good option. Aberdeen Islands in the urban areas, Ka-parks and other places can lease a bike.
     Reminder: Australia Taipa on the Prohibition of the Cambridge Cycling.
     Human tricycles
     Tricycle is the most human characteristics of the transport of Macao, now is not the major modes of public transport, but it is a good tourist transport, in particular the use of human tricycles roaming South Bay, West Bay with a light breeze again, landscape Pleasant. In the terminal and Lisboa Hotel many tricycles, Che Fu who squatted car money, while chatting while smoking, to customers on a car pulled Manyou You walk in the streets. The tricycle is very slow, can properly appreciate the streetscape, but also at any time to stop shooting. Che Fu also Jianzuo tour, briefed the guests on the monuments of Macao, Wherever he went, they stop going on through the guests after the Tour to the next attraction, arbitrary strong.
Cost: there is no uniform fees, the need to bargain and Che Fu, general Portuguese coins 150-200 yuan / hour
     Sea tour
     Maritime Museum daily (except Tuesday) has cruises, flights, mainly Hong Kong and Tower. Visitors can enjoy the harbour by boat along the scenery. Sea tour starting next to the Maritime Museum is located at the No. 1 terminal
Nostalgic trip
     Take a look is modelled on the British royal family in 1920 sedans, to all the major tourist attractions. This car was called the "luxury antique classic cars," inside the decorative antique, can take nine people at a cost of 300 yuan MOP / hour.

Food:
     Macao is a blend of Chinese and Western cuisine of the North and South, where not only can enjoy authentic Portuguese dishes, you can also eat vegetables Macao, Guangdong cuisine, and Shanghai dishes, Japanese cuisine, Korean and Thai dishes.

     Macao to the Portuguese of course, can not taste the food, Macao's Portuguese dishes into Portuguese Portuguese and Macao-two. Macao-Portuguese cuisine is inclusive of Portugal, India, Malaysia and China Cantonese cooking techniques, the original Portuguese dishes improved, learning from, it can be said is the world's unique dishes. Such as the African chicken, fruit and spicy Asian chicken prawns, and so are Portugal from Africa, the Indian Institute of use made of spices after cooking. Port Shelter still burning, Portuguese chicken, Portuguese sausage, fish, such as sand Austin is also well-known dishes. Gangding in the ground, was built in 1873 in Macau Club of the Opera House Restaurant, built in 1870 and the Army Club restaurant in Australia are very exotic dishes of Portuguese-style restaurant.

     Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese dishes Zhushou of red beans, cabbage soup, bacalhau (cod, the Portuguese people like to eat a salted fish, it can be fried, burned, roasted, boiled, such as different ways to cook, no matter what method of cooking, It is cheek teeth will Liuxiang,miss) are well-known dishes.
If you love Chinese food, it has many restaurants in Macau, from the traditional chicken, Zhengyu, to the characteristics of the Beijing duck, shark's fin soup, burning suckling pig, shrimp dumplings, Shaomai, such as powder fruit snacks, Feel free to bulk duo Nien. New roads in the vicinity of Fauré Street in the vicinity of the most famous restaurants.
    
     Bar may be regarded as an alternative. Macao wide variety of bars, a luxury five-star hotel bar, may have Kaihuai drinking the local bars, more music bars, as guests danced the rhythm of African music. In recent years, the Portuguese Portuguese cafe has become Macao's new eating and drinking places. A famous cafe on the board Zhang Tong area and South Bay Street area Ma Commission. In these cafes will not only enjoy refreshing to the unique flavor of coffee, tea and wine, the Lisbon-style snacks and desserts.

     Would like to find affordable places to switch flavors, you can try all kinds of food to small Yupin, Fenmian, wonton dumplings, Ginger milk curd, inexpensive meal can be treated. Vegetarian also can go to Tai Monastery eat a light vegetables. At night, many of Taipa, barbecue shop aroma over the overflowing Coprinus, cattle ribs, quail,miss. In recent years the popular Taiwan-Chafang, mostly concentrated in the "bridge area" and "new port area of Dili Jingyuan." Wong are concentrated in the vicinity of a hotel called the Second Street road in the Thai Restaurant, features a wealth of fish dishes, Jijiao pickled, fried Xia Bing, and so on.

     Eat till you, the time would also like to go back to his family a bit, then, can the road to the new Central Qingping Zhijie vicinity of the cake, and buy some wonton dumplings, almond cake, Danjuan, Baocui, peanut candy, chicken Aberdeen cakes, dried meat and other snacks, very popular.

 

 

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