Last weekend, I have been to Zhuhai and Macau with my friends. WE had a nice trip, we spent most of the time on EATING!!! The first day, my girl friend and I went to take TURBO JET from HONG KONG to Macau in the morning, and the we passed the border of the macau and got into Zhuhai. We joined our high school teacher and her wife there, and settled down in the Zhuhai Hotel first. Then, we took taxi to go a place to eat OYSTER. Though it’s not the great season for Oyster, the restaurant still has supply of Oysters from other place in China. We had delicious seafoods there. In Macau, we ate a lot too!!!
The route:
Aug 2 (DAY 1) Hong Kong –> Macau –> Zhuhai
1) Go to Hong Kong Pier to take Turbo Jet to Macau (It takes about one hour to get there)
2) Arrive to Macau and take taxi to the border of Macau
3) From Macau to Zhuhai
4) Take taxi and settle down at hotel first.
Zhuhai:
1) Oyster field to have lunch
2) Go to Fruit market and seafood market to buy something for dinner
3) Walk around at the local supermarket
4) Have a great seafood dinner!
5) Go back to Hotel and Do feet massage in the hotel
6) Go to take a shower and sleep
Aug 3 (DAY 2) Zhuhai –> Macau –> Hong Kong
1) Leave Zhuhai hotel and have breakfast at local chinese restaurant (chinese dim sum)
2) Leave zhuhai and get into the border of Macau, it took almost 30 mins!! too slow lol.
3) Take Taxi to visit my high school teacher’s friends.
4) Go to Ali Curry House to have Curry MEAL!!! It’s delicious!
5) Take some pictures outside the Curry House and go to The Venetian.
6) Sight-seeing in the Venetian with Casino, Shopping malls, food court…
7) Take taxi to a street with full of snacks:
a) Bread with Pork
b) Puddings
c) Crabs Congee
Take taxi to a place to have dinner, meanwhile, I bought 6 Portuguese-style egg tarts!!!
9) After dinner, go back to my high school teacher’s friend’s home to have some rest.
10) Take Turbo Jet at 21:40 back to Hong Kong.
Wanna see those pictures??? Please click the button “View All Images” in the above to see all the pictures I took during in this trip. 
Let me introduce some infomations about Zhuhai and Macau.
Location and Background infomation:
Map of PRC from Wikipedia
Zhuhai (Chinese: 珠海; pinyin: Zhūhǎi; lit. “Pearl Sea”) is a prefecture-level city on the southern coast of Guangdong province in the People’s Republic of China. It located in the Pearl River Delta, Zhuhai borders Jiangmen to the northwest, Zhongshan to the north, and Macau to the south. Zhuhai was one of the original Special Economic Zones established in the 1980s.
Zhuhai focuses on 5 new high-tech and heavy industries including electronics, computer software, biotechnology and pharmacy, machinery and equipment as well as petrochemical industries.
Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east and south.
As most of the asian know that this territory has thriving industries such as textiles, electronics, toys and tourist industry. The most famous things are the world class casinos!!! I can see Casinos with hotels are at everywhere!!!! It’s incredible! Besides, there are also many stadiums, resorts and restaurants. Such a small place can have more than 10 Casinos there!!! Wow~ The nightview of those Casinos are so beautiful!
Macau History:
As all people know Macau was a Portuguese colony in the past. Did people know the very first settlers at there were the Fishermen from Fujian ( a place in China) and farmers from Guangdong? At that time, Macau was known as “Ou Mun”, or ‘trading gate”. Why it named “ trading gate”? It is because of its location at the mouth of the Pearl River downstream from Guangzhou (Canton). During ancient times, port city was part of the Silk Road with ships loading here with silk for Rome .
Even after China ceased to be a world trade center, Guangzhou prospered from sea borne business with the countries of Southeast Asia , so the local entrepreneurs welcomed the arrival of Portuguese merchant-explorers. In the early 1550s the Portuguese reached Ou Mun and adopted the name, which gradually changed into the name Macau .
Macau also became the perfect crossroad for the meeting of East and West cultures. Portugal ’s golden age in Asia faded as rivals like the Dutch and British took over their trade. However the Chinese chose to continue to do business through the Portuguese in Macau . So for over a century the British East India Company and others set up shop here in rented houses like the elegant Casa Garden . Following the Opium War in 1841, Hong Kong was established by Britain . Most of the foreign merchants left Macau . Nevertheless it has continued to enjoy a leisurely multicultural existence and make daily, practical use of its historical buildings, in the process becoming a favorite stopover for international travelers, writers and artists.
Government and Politics:
On December 20, 1999, Macau was handover back to China. The Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Macau stipulate that Macau operates with a high degree of autonomy until at least 2049, 50 years after handover. Under the policy of ” one country, two systems”, the Central People’s Government is responsible for the territory’s defense and foreign affairs, while Macau maintains its own legal system, polic force, monetary system, customs and immigration policies, and delegates to international organisations and events. All the above are the same as Hong Kong, Hong Kong handover to China on July 1, 1997.
Macau and Hong Kong are the Special Administrative Regions (SAR). Both of these SARs are the part of People’s Republic of China now.
Source:
http://www.stayreshongkong.com/macau-history.htm#h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuhai
