Macau Fisherman's Wharf

This guide to Macau Fisherman's Wharf traces the rise and quiet stall of a forty-metre volcano that once held Macau's first rollercoaster, part of an early-2000s bid to reclaim a strip of the outer harbour and cover it with replicas of the world: Cape Town waterfronts, Amsterdam canal houses, a Tang Dynasty fort, a Mississippi riverboat, even the Potala Palace perched on the volcano itself. It follows the investors who poured nearly two billion patacas into the project when it opened at the end of 2005, and asks what became of that ambition after the ride went dark sometime after 2007. Look for the limestone Roman Amphitheatre near the outer edge, where concerts still fill the seats today.