Hong Kong + Macau Deep Heritage Tour: Victoria Peak, Portuguese Macau, Lantau Big Buddha, Disneyland, Dim Sum and the Pearl River Delta
Browse more guides: Hong Kong travel | Asia destinations The Best Hong Kong and Macau Heritage Destinations: Victoria Peak, Macau Historic Centre (UNESCO 2005), Tian Tan Big Buddha, Cotai Strip, Lantau, and Dim Sum across the Pearl River Delta I have walked Hong Kong on humid mornings when the harbor still smelled of diesel and overnight rain, and I have crossed the 55 km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge on a shuttle bus that cost me USD 6.50 and changed my mental map of southern China forever. This guide is what I wish someone had handed me on my first trip: measured, specific, opinionated, and built around the two cities that share the Pearl River Delta but live in entirely different centuries from each other. TL;DR Hong Kong and Macau are the two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, returned from British rule on 1 July 1997 and from Portuguese rule on 20 December 1999 respectively, and they remain governed under the "one country, two systems...