Gazing at a panda tops The Sun’s ‘7 reasons to visit Macau’

The opportunity to “gaze at one of the big, bumbling pandas” seems to be the main reason to visit Macau, according to The Sun newspaper.
The Sun, a daily tabloid newspaper in the UK and Ireland, published an article this week entitled “7 Reasons to Visit Macau”. On this list, the author, Laura Millar, includes several references to the Portuguese historical influence on the peninsula. Millar recommends that tourists peruse the Macanese architecture, including St Paul’s church and Largo do Senado, as well as sample its culinary offerings – such as the famous egg tarts and other Portuguese and Sino-Portuguese hybrid dishes.
It would be difficult to compose a list of ‘must-do’s’ in Macau, without mentioning the luxury casinos “housed in extravagant, over-the-top hotels”, which Millar refers to as “[a] taste of Vegas”. The article also suggests a bungee jump from the 233m-tall Macau Tower, along with a visit to the 15th-century A-Ma temple.
Perhaps Millar ran out of ideas with which to fill her article, because the fifth reason listed was actually a visit to nearby Hong Kong. But, most surprising of all, was that “gazing at one of the big, bumbling pandas” at the Giant Panda Pavilion topped The Sun’s list.
The publication’s feature of Macau comes at a time when the Macau Government Tourist Office’s figures published on its website revealed that the number of visitors to Macau in the first quarter of 2015 is down by 3.6 percent, compared with the same period last year. Staff Reporter