This former Portuguese trading post has become one of the most dynamic tourist attractions in China. The town, located on the Pearl River Delta, provides a string of casinos and exudes a colonial atmosphere dating back to the time of the Europeans.

Along with Hong Kong, Macau was one of the most famous colonial trading posts in Asia. The town, bordered by the South China Sea and consisting of a peninsula linked to two islands, was returned to China in 1999. Nonetheless, it has retained its identity as a gambling city with a profusion of casino hotels and a host of horse and greyhound races, a place where you can lay any kind of bet. There are more than twenty of these temples to gambling which make the city’s reputation. They attract a clientele from China and further afield and generate as much income as Las Vegas.

The attractions of the town are not restricted to the casinos and the vibrant nightlife. Macau is a Unesco World Heritage site and boasts treasures of colonial and religious architecture that you can explore whilst walking around one of the most densely-populated cities in the world. Amongst its most remarkable buildings and attractions there is the Buddhist A-Ma temple, the oldest building in the town, Dom Pedro V theatre built by the Portuguese in 1860, the Moorish quarter, Senate Square at the heart of Macau, the cathedral built in 1622 which is the main Catholic church in the town, the walls of the old city, built by the Portuguese from 1569 onwards, the Hospital da Misericordia, the former hospital... If you want to get a view over the whole town and the peninsula, take an excursion to Guia Fortress. From up on this hill, you can see exactly what sets Macau apart.