Macau - China's Little Vegas

View of Macau from the ferry.

Macau city streets.

Kun Iam Temple is Macau's oldest temple dating back to 1627.  Its roofs are decorated with porcelain figurines and the halls are also richly decorated.  Inside the halls you can smell incense burning and see  beautifully decorated alters where people stopped to pray. In the temple's terraced garden,the first American treaty was signed in 1844.

Burning incense.

Buddha figure in the garden.

Largo do Senado, Macau's most important historical building houses the government buildings.  It is so named because the body sitting there refused to recognize Spain's sovereignty during the 60 years that occupied Potugal.  From Macau's old city wall, we were able to view the city.

The canons are still situated at their original positions on the wall for the protection of the city.

The most treasured icon in Macau is the Ruins of the Church of St. Paul.  The facade and stairway are all the remain of the early 17th century Jesuit church.  The church was one of the greatest monuments to Christianity in Asia.  A fire, in 1835, destroyed everything except the facade and stairway which you can still see today.