London, UK to Macau, China from £281

🌍 About Macau, China

Macau was Portuguese for over 400 years until 1999, and the mix is real, not a slogan: Senado Square is paved in Lisbon-style black-and-white wave cobbles, and the Ruins of St. Paul's is exactly that — only the carved stone facade of a 1600s church still stands, the rest lost to an 1835 fire. Eat the pork chop bun, a fried bone-in chop in a crisp roll descended from the Portuguese bifana; for a proper meal find minchi, the Macanese hash of minced pork, potato and soy. The casinos on the Cotai Strip are the loud half; the old town is the reason to come. Visit October to December — warm, dry, comfortable. Skip May to September, the wet typhoon season.