Plate I01
St-Paul, a facade the cathedral became.
Macau Peninsula, noon
Praia, Lisboa do oriente
Preface, on the Portuguese-Chinese chapter on the Pearl River Delta
Macau is a two-night Macanese chapter that almost always rides on the back of a Hong Kong trip. Largo do Senado for the Portuguese town, the St-Paul ruins for the facade-only cathedral, Coloane village for the Lord Stow egg-tart bakery. Two days for the city, ferries either side from Hong Kong. Best between October and March. The same window as Hong Kong.
Every journey in Macau, currently
2 journeys in Macau.
Interlude, Plates from the field
Things we
have seen.
Six plates from the studio's last two years. St-Paul ruins at noon, Largo do Senado after the morning crowd, an egg-tart at Lord Stow in Coloane.
Six plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
Colophon
A small note
on how we work.
Tibro has been routing Macau since 2019. Six years of two-night Macanese chapters on the back of Hong Kong trips.
We work with a Macau-side coordinator who handles the ferries and the walking routes between the Peninsula and the Cotai Strip.
Two routes is what we currently maintain. The Hong-Kong-and-Macau six-night is the most-requested; we route Macau as the second-week half because the change of pace lands soft.
6Years of routing Macau
2Routes, in combination
10 / 24Hours we tend to reply within
Warmly,
The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Hong Kong (partner), Macau (ferry liaison)
Letters received
From the studio's folder
What they wrote
when they got home.
Two letters from the last twelve months.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Hong Kong & Macau, six nights, February 2024
Three Hong Kong nights, two Macau, one back in Hong Kong. The Macau morning at St-Paul before the day-trippers and the Coloane egg-tart afternoon were the trip's quietest hours. The Tibro ferry-and-handover on day four was the part we never had to think about.
P. & K. IyerBengaluru, first HK-Macau trip
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Hong Kong & Macau, six nights, October 2024
Same shape. Three Hong Kong, two Macau, one back. The Senado Square evening with the Portuguese tiles and the Chinese skyline behind it was the photograph the trip will be remembered for.
A. & R. KrishnanChennai, long-weekend escape
4.89 / 5Average from 38 returned travellers
22%Travel with us a second time
10 hrsMean reply time to a first letter
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