More than 20 million tourists come every year to Macau because the game is even taboo in some countries is presented as a tourism icon. Cards, cube dice, gambling chips and a plaything to be hunted most tourists in Macau.
Almost all five-star hotel set up a special floor for guests to play a role as Chow Yun Fat in classical Chinese movie titled God of Gambler. Billboards with the letters of magnitude accompanied by flickering lights advertise gambling sites. Just choose, you want a classy or casual.
Currently, the attraction of gambling is no longer the main menu that relies on Macau tourism as income country. Game of luck into one entertainment package in cultural tourism, historical, and sports in Macau. Therefore, we need to realize that the country covering an area of less than 30 square kilometers or fifty half Jakarta had a collection of interesting historical scrutiny.
In between the skyscrapers, neatly manicured nan stately old buildings or Portuguese colonial heritage temple and houses typical of the Chinese society of the 16th century until the 19th century. Dozens of modern buildings and old buildings and classical architecture of Europe and China are all mixed to form the identity of Macao.
In downtown Macau, for instance, the Church of Saint Anthony boxed crammed in between flats and houses shops. One of the oldest churches built before the year 1560 and renovated many times this is one of the favorite wedding citizens of Macau. Not far from the Church of Fa Vong Tong (Church of Flowers), “stranded” other old buildings.
The name Macau comes from the combination of the words “a ma” and “gao” which means the Port A Ma. The word “a ma” itself refers to the figure of a girl who saves a fishing boat from the storm and landed his ship at the Port of Hoi Keang (names beginning Macau Peninsula). The girl then walked toward the sky and disappearing, supposedly right where the temple stood. When the Portuguese landed in A Ma Gao in the 16th century, they pronounce it “Macao”.