October, 2008
Macau

My first visit to Macau was very brief. I was traveling through there on my way to a vacation in Indonesia. I left my country in Asia and traveled by a "sleeper bus" or "hotel bus" to Macau. I haven't traveled on one of these before. I would give it a medium rating for comfort. My bus arrived very late into Macau, so I didn't have any free time to explore the city on my way to the airport.
   

My second trip to Macau was an unexpected layover after my Indonesian vacation, caused by me missing my flight. The upside was that I really got to explore Macau this time. I explored pretty much every Starbucks they have, and I thoroughly explored the convention center at the Macau Tower. Mainly because you can doing the world's highest commercial bungee jump off the Macau Tower, and I really, really wanted to do that on my way through!

I arrived in Macau with several of my friends and we all crashed in a family-style hotel room for the night. After dropping off our stuff we promptly headed out to have dinner at Pizza Hut. Unfortunately we were all very exhausted and it was freezing cold in the Pizza Hut, so we rushed through the meal and then hit the sack. 

   

The next morning I was up early, full of excitement and expectation. I was very excited about my chance to bungee jump off the Macau Tower. I started the day with a great breakfast from Starbucks and then set out to accomplish my dream. Unfortunately a typhoon decided to hit Macau (and other parts of southeast Asia) on that very day.
   
I ended up going to the Macau Tower about 4 separate times that day, constantly checking and hoping that the wind and rain had died down enough that they'd let me Bungee jump off the tower. But ultimately it was not to be. At least not for this trip. But I had a great day with my friends as we went back to Starbucks, went to another coffee shop, drove around town looking for movie theaters, and saw some really beautiful parts of the city.
     
    

Later that day, after my friends had boarded a ferry headed for Hong Kong, and I had watched "Eagle Eye" at the movie theater in the Macau Tower, I crossed the border into my country and headed back home.