Hongkong is a bad city to be jet lagged in. There is always something to do. Hong kong really only gets started afterdark with lazer light showes in the harbour and busy nightmarkets and late shopping. Wondering the streets till past midnight is just part of hongkong life. When you can't sleep anyway it difficult to fall asleap untill early, then sleep late.
Macau is much less touristy, much more chinese, a unique mix of portugese and asian (Latin Asisa) cultures this little island gives us a glimpse into a dirtyer rawer hongkong days. Few White Tourisits and not so much of the Luis Viton,
Visace megastore attmosphere. That's not to say Macau is poor by any means. Huge Vegas style cassinos, complete with fountain displays huge pools and luxry gaming salons. Fisherman's warf is dotted with theam casinos like volcaoes, egiptian palace, chinese temple, all Exessivly tuperwear plastic. But there is anotherside, getto like old districts span much of the island and historic hill forts colonial houses and gardens cover more - a great place just to walk around and explore. Though seeing a franciscan monistary covered in chinese characters rather than latin bible script is still an odd sight.
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