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Tag Archives: Macau
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 […]
Posted in Transport
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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‘Flying’ to Macau on a Boeing 929 Jetfoil
My favourite mode of transport in Hong Kong has to be the Boeing 929 Jetfoil – a passenger carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoil that speeds across the waves between Hong Kong and Macau. About the Boeing 929 Jetfoil Boeing launched the first […]
U-turns on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge links Hong Kong to Macau and Mainland China – and u-turns are prohibited along the entire 35-minute 55-kilometre long journey across it! However in an emergency you don’t need to drive in reverse to get back […]
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Tagged China, emergency, freeways, Hong Kong, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Macau, mainland, on the road
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Aircraft registration in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
Every civil aircraft in the world is required to have a unique identifying code, allocated by the country of registration, under a system managed by ICAO – the International Civil Aviation Organization. But in the case of China, Hong Kong, […]