Though Macau comes alive at night with the sound of rolling dice (metaphorically speaking), during the day it's a sleepy, quaint little town filled with churches, temples and row after row of pawn shops... which were completely empty as we walked past them.
According to our tour-guide Aloo, these places buzz with business in the wee hours of the night when desperate gamblers come in ready to sell off their wedding rings just so that they can play another hand. But during the day it's a different story. In the photo above, one of the sales-girls is actually fast asleep.
At another shop, a lady listlessly watched a Chinese soap opera and even her caged birds were silent. The only sign of vitality was at a small jewelry store in Macau's Chinese quarter, where an elderly gent sipped tea with a good friend and flashed a huge smile for the camera. He was the highlight of my trip.
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