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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Ticket touts and the Hong Kong – Macau ferry
When looking at tourist guides, one piece of advice keeps coming up for the Hong Kong – Macau ferry – don’t buy tickets from the touts at the ferry pier. Yet the advice from my family in Hong Kong was […]
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Tagged crime, ferries, Hong Kong, hydrofoil, Macau, on the water, police
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Macau’s exclave in Mainland China
I knew Macau had a long history of land reclamation, which reached a peak when the islands of Taipa and Coloane were joined together to form the single island of Cotai. But the part of Macau I recently discovered is […]
Posted in Everyday Life
Tagged China, driving, education, exclave, geography, Macau, mainland, on the road, tunnels, university
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