MACAU | You Won't Believe This Is CHINA!
hello everyone here from macau in China we arrived here 2 days ago from Beijing and this is actually an autonomous region of China so it's one of the regions that is under the one country China but two completely different systems and that's mainly because here has a completely different history to the majority of China and the main reason for that is because it was a colony of Portugal for around 442 years years that long so dating back to 1557 until recently 1999 this was ruled by Portugal and it's actually the first and last European colony in Asia so making it the longest colony in Asia and things are run completely different here so there's no internet restrictions we can access everything like Facebook YouTube Google things that we couldn't really access without a VPN in uh Beijing and also here I get 6 months on my UK passport I'm allowed to stay here for 6 months a long time on the mainland on arrival I could only get like 6 days but I think yours is a bit less than mine yeah uh I think 3 months which is already a lot but that's weird because I'm from Brazil so it was also a like a Portuguese Colony so I thought I would get or the same as you or maybe more but it's less days than you yeah I get double for some reason yeah but uh as you were saying that differences between here and Mainland China there's also the currency that's different it's not the same we thought it would be the same but it's not here is the pataka yeah Paka which I think is the same currency as when it was ruled by the Portuguese yeah it it sounds like a Portuguese name Maan Paka and here is also mainly known for its casinos that you can probably see in the background there so we'll be checking that out and you're going to see a lot of Portuguese buildings we can already see an old Portuguese Church there but first we're going to start off here at the maau tower which is the highest views of maau should should be able to see the Hall of maau It's a small [Music] place so had zero cues whatsoever so we got up straight away we actually played 99 per person which I think is around $25 but we just realized that on the website cluke you could get it for around $18 per person so a lot cheaper and we'll leave that link below cuz we should have done that should have checked that first but definitely getting some amazing views from up here so that was the casino area over there and after the tower we're going to be walking around this part which I think is the more historic Portuguese side like a lot of the towers that we go to you have the transparent floor pretty scary wo I don't like like it I don't care you can walk on it not me so from this side you can see that land over there that is no longer maau so we're not allowed to go there so so close too but this part of maau here is connected to the mainland down there somewhere but you'd have to go through like border control check the difference in the watercolor like a lake on the right side [Music] so this side over here is also maau we're actually staying on this land so that is a separate island called typa not sure if that's how you pronounce it we're just staying right here very close so right now we just got a taxi across this bridge and yeah that isn't maau once again that's like the mainland China where is Hong Kong I think uh to the other side on on that side yeah yeah I don't know if we can see it it's very like hazy today very cloudy maybe you can see it sometimes yeah look you can also do bungee jumping from the top of the tower definitely won't be doing that you no no thanks yeah so we just checked on the map and Hong Kong is over there there is a bridge we can just about make out that goes there I think a lot of people just get the ferry across and I think it's quite simple to get in into Hong Kong it's also um under a different system like maau so you can easily travel there from here so we just noticed that the TV shows here the guy that's going to bungee jump I think he's going to come down here try and film it oh he's going [Music] [Music] wa [Music] so we ended up just getting a bus it was only a quick ride like 4 minutes but yeah we didn't want to walk it's so damn humid here I didn't mention like super humid feels like uh Singapore the bus was six patakas per person and now we're going to be exploring more of the Portuguese side so kind of bizarre that there has a completely different system to here and we so so close so one of the things that have shocked us the most in maau is the the signs that we see most of the times uh everything written in Chinese and also Portuguese and not even English just Portuguese and Chinese so that's very unusual and especially for us that we are Brazilian and English CH is English Brazilian so we speak Portuguese and now here in the like in Asia and we see Portuguese everywhere it's really crazy yeah so this building here I don't know if it's a Portuguese one kind of looks a bit Portuguese but also the tiles look a bit Chinese style it's all in Portuguese go the maau government like a museum then and then you can also find Portuguese food paladis portugueses we'll probably be eating Portuguese food later on and I think the temple that we want to go to amama Temple is right around here yeah it seems like a show is going on theat the show [Music] so that was a cool little unexpected show yeah we couldn't understand what they were talking but it was still nice yeah so now we'll go in the main temple amama temple this is supposed to be one of the oldest in maau I think from 1488 so before the Portuguese arrived W looks really cool on the outside that was the room that we just watched loed [Music] into so we mentioned about the translations in Portuguese but from what I read only about 2 or 3% of the population speak Portuguese and over here they speak canones not Mandarin here in Hong Kong speak canones so I think the majority of the Mainland speak Mandarin so we didn't have to pay anything to come in here that theater show was also for free they were inviting us like come come yeah at first we thought we weren't allowed in right we thought we needed a ticket but they told us to go in [Music] [Music] got some sort of church image Portuguese church we'll be seeing that soon so an interesting fact apparently maau was named after that Temple so when the Portuguese arrived they asked the locals what this place place was called and the locals thought they were asking what the temple was called and I think they said something like am magok and the Portuguese understood maau somehow and then they just not named the entire place maau ever since I saw a picture of this too I think this is the moish barracks moish is more like a Islamic Moroccan kind of architecture that you would have found in Portugal and Spain when they uh when they conquered that region and they decided to make a build in that style here so this is kind of how I imagine Hong Kong looking like in the pictures that I've seen of Hong Kong in the past these old apartment blocks yeah so the translations really are all in Portuguese and Cantonese quos morus that's what I was saying the the moish barracks it seems like it was for a regiment from Goa Indian to stay since Portugal also colonized Goa I remember seeing Portuguese buildings there when we went to go or [Music] to all right so now we're getting into the Portuguese part and it is definitely looking very Portuguese already yeah this was one of the squares that we wanted to come to called L looks like they're doing some construction of some sort don't if you can go in there but yeah it's surrounded by the old Portuguese buildings a lot of the Portuguese buildings here are from the 1600s 1700s we're now in Portugal yeah my brain is like very confused so here we have a church IG s Lorenzo originally from the 1500s but I think the majority of the building that you see now is from the 1800s this time you also got the English translation so Ren renovated five times 1618 1768 1846 1898 and 2006 [Music] [Music] so now we're at a theater called called theatro Don Pedro Quinto so that is supposed to be the first western style theater in China from 1860 it's closed at the moment they have like uh Portuguese music shows here F which we watched in lesban once they still have those shows not sure what this building is I think it's another church the sign back there said it's only closed on tu Tuesdays which is today a ah this was founded by Spanish priests in 1591 Carol how are we in China right now yeah when I saw the F thing I was like it's so confusing cuz sometimes it looks like Brazil but sometimes it doesn't it's just very confusing and the designs kopa Cabana yeah the same type of Portuguese stones that they call but yeah we say it's uh like confusing but it's really interesting for us like I think um maybe more than for just no no other European European tourists but for us it's even cooler yeah okay it's a big part of our culture in Brazil also this and the fact that it just looks completely like Portugal and Brazil is amazing so in kop Cabana we have the waves like this it's like the same design [Music] so now we just looking for a place to eat I think Carol found a a good place for us oh lots of sweets think I saw that in Beijing also the same thing this one I think it's a walking street I'm quite surprised by how quiet everything is though there's like nobody around everywhere we go so we found our Portuguese restaurant it's called Gallo which is like a rooster the symbol of Portugal night since 1987 so they have all the famous Portuguese dishes the fish Sagi sardines 80 D I eat that a lot in the in the alav that's 135 I think I'm going to go for the poto the pig 165 so we also went for the famous B which we have in Portugal and Brazil codfish yeah in Portugal they call pel P in Brazil we say and we also even got some little black olives there which I love and they brought bread just like in Portugal so I think that was 55 mhm pakas so good and this one as you can see comes with a a lot of cheese inside which makes it even better so I went for the bakala brass which is a dish with a balau codfish same fish yeah and then U some like very thin fried potatoes and also onion like fried onion it's one of my favorite bakalo dishes so my food has arrived now so it's the pork got some more olives in the salad and this is like a mashed potato I think never had it like that before yeah in Portugal they have really good meat and fish dishes always delicious [Music] so we are now going to lagod senado which one of the most popular squares here and just look look at this doesn't get much more European looking than this yeah I think this is the one that we saw in the pictures yeah wow it's like Lisbon almost yeah it is like Lisbon really big Square so before we came to maau I was under the impression that it was just like one little section that looked Portuguese but it is kind of scattered around I mean this definitely is like the main area but even on the island that we're on which is completely separate there's also some Portuguese buildings around there settlements so in the videos in Japan I mentioned about the series shun which is about the Japanese but it does show the Portuguese in that series and it mentions Mac out so this is where they were this was their trading post I'm pretty sure that the Chinese that visit here must think that this is crazy having a place like this [Music] so initially the Portuguese actually leased maau for three centuries for around 300 years it was only after the Opium Wars in the 1800s that the Chinese lost and then they had to give the territory to Portugal not a lease anymore yet again another church there are many many many churches that you can visit we're not going to be a visiting the more this looks a bit different maybe a bit of a Chinese mix yeah so this part is getting way more packed now I also read that this is is apparently the most densely populated region in the world maau 680,000 people live here in just a very small area and the reason that it's specifically so busy at this part is because of the ruins of St Paul that's like one of the landmarks of Mao so you can walk all the way up to it at the top you got the old Cobble streets here kind of funny that this place is so much busier than the the other attractions yeah I'm guessing that all the tourists that come here they just come to this area of the the town or city but uh but it's it was not so far from where we were before and it was super empty over there so I don't know why they're just like a 6 s minute walk and it's like this so this building was originally from the 1600s but there was a fire in 1835 that burnt the majority of it down and only the front remains somehow we can actually see that casino building from our hotel yeah I think you can see it from pretty much everywhere in maau since it's so big so big and so unusual so it looks like they have the original base like the foundations it says tombs oh these are tombs then yeah yeah number one got some of the old pictures 1970s wasn't as busy back then 1875 the Temple of NAA from 1888 guess that's this one seems to be closed here you also have the original City walls from the 16th and 17th centuries Still Standing you just passed the W and everything becomes completely empty all of a sudden I think it's just a local neighborhood no more people [Music] [Music] yeah so we've now entered a fort that was right now next to the ruin back there and this is from 1625 still looks like it's in pretty good shape can see all the Cannons just passed one down there too so I think there's a few Portuguese forts in maau there's one on our Island too forch so they began constructing it in 1617 I guess it was just completed in 1626 it was the main military structure of the city this one and this cannon is aiming straight for that hotel that we were pointing out taking the hotel out yeah it's weird at a weird position that's a perfect shot right there this looks like a a ship Mast I think it is another one lined up to take out the hotel Carol have you noticed that every single one's lined up to take out the hotel look at that one yeah we not those ones yeah not these ones yeah definitely a great place to come just for the The View that was the ruin down there [Music] [Music] so from up here you can definitely get more of an idea of how there's 680,000 people live in here it's just apartment after apartment block super high as well so crammed together yeah even in the area that we are the other side of the the bridge there are many highrise buildings like this all together it's a bit more spread out than on this side though yeah I think so this one also this side also looks uh older like you said [Music] [Music] [Music] so we've now come across yet another very Portuguese looking Square this one's not so touristy even though it's still full of the the old buildings these are probably some of the coolest looking buildings that we've we've seen so far back there it says that it's a hospital I don't know if it's the entire building block really cool mixture of colors though I think the windows seem to look a bit more Chinese yeah how made this my surname oh yeah that's Carol's surname Al Kaz Jim kind of like a a library I guess bit different yeah Lit Literature house something like that yeah Library would be bibla in Portuguese [Music] [Music] so we've now come to the casino Zone this this was that mega hotel that we could see before that's going to get taken out by the Cannons one day there's even a fort here right in the middle of the casino part so I think all these buildings are casinos yeah that building looks even crazier from the back I wonder if those are all rooms that stick out so that hotel casino is called Grand Lisboa Grand Lisbon got another one back there Casino lisbo yeah so we'll be showing our hotel later on in the video nothing spectacular like these though no yeah this area is crazy really I think all of these hotels are like casinos as well not just simple hotels you got the MGM over there which I think you get that in us and throughout the world right so that is why this place is known as the Vegas of the East it is the nickname and funnily enough gambling is actually illegal in China but not maau that might be one of the reasons why they keep it under a different system so that they can have all the the casinos here the rich Chinese playground so maau is actually considered to be one of the richest regions in the world one of the highest gdps too in the world I think their salaries here are really high and unemployment is supposed to be almost zero so yeah the quality of life is supposed to be really good from what I've been reading [Music] so we are now back on the island that we're staying on of TAA and we come to a place called the cotai strip and straight away it's quite clear what this is based on yeah what we mean FRS or Vegas no I meant Vegas yeah but yeah like uh Vegas also I think has the Eiffel Tower things like that the mega hotels so we actually thought that all the casino places were on the other side that we explored today yeah yeah we didn't know we thought our our Island was like the quieter Island but no we also have this here yeah so it really is just like the Las Vegas Strip you can walk all the way down and it'll just be a casino after Casino so that one back there is called the parisan and then over here there's one called The Londoner that we're going to check out now that's like the house of parliament yeah yeah I think there's like a Harry Potter exhibition I wish I knew it sooner because I I'll would probably go but I think you need to reserve tickets so we won't be going so another interesting fact that I read about is that the island that we're on now before it used to be two separate islands and then they basically filled in the space between with land which is where we are right now Cai so a few decades ago this never exist Cai the strip so they just filled in the land I guess to make all these hotels and casinos and that is definitely a Big Ben it almost looks the same size as the real thing Carol maybe it is we saw it kind of recently yeah yeah yeah it did look about that size and then I think we're going to go in this one afterwards the Venetian probably get a bite to eat man they even got like a a London Underground going on what the hell and the classic foam boxes obviously the king cross train station we've been there busy yeah everybody wants the pictures cuz this view is really good yeah I think this is like the one of the best views of the shrip oh nice you even got Abby Road The Beatles yes I think the majority are like malls too yeah they're all the the most like luxurious Brands and very expensive Brands too and yeah we hope to find a restaurant but maybe it will be other fancy restaurants yeah we don't want to spend like a fortune that Portuguese meal overall was like $60 for a pretty simple meal even the elevator looks kind of old school looks like one of those old metal ones yeah what a bizarre place it's basically China Portugal and Las Vegas mixed together yeah it's a very unique and unusual uh area of the world we've never seen anything like this [Music] before all right we are in Venice [Music] now that's cool look at the ceiling we're outdoors I remember we went to the Venetian in Vegas yeah in Vegas and we went to a a shopping mall in the Philippines in BJC that was also like this kind of similar yeah I think they have the canals too so I think the Venetian is just like a hotel Branch it's funny cuz we' just been watching a series called Ripley on Netflix we actually watched the last one yesterday and that's set in Venice so the series kind of looks like this got the the gondolas that's a pretty fancy looking Gondola too mhm I think you can go on a ride in there maybe we'll see someone soon it's like a Venetian opera house yeah sounds like one yeah they got the opera music going on wow look at that the artwork fancy fountain oh look at the the hallway too [Music] so that's going to be it here from maau the hotel that we've been staying at is called Regency and it's around $102 a night really big room also has a pretty big swimming pool and a really nice gym too and the breakfast is also good here we checked the price of rooms at that Venetian place the fancy looking hotel and it's around $160 but there are cheaper options too I thought it'd be a lot lot more there but yeah it's not that much more and we're about to head to the airport now cuz we're going to be going to Shanghai and that'll be the last stop for us on this China trip going to be spending 4 days in total in Shanghai so that's what's coming up if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe to see more follow us on Instagram and we'll see you in the next one [Music] so [Music]
2024-05-28 19:37
