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Finally our Asia trip story continued. It was just too annoying to edit photos on an 5 years old computer. Today I would like to take you to the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau.

From Wikipedia:

The Old Protestant Cemetery (traditional Chinese: 基督教墳場; simplified Chinese: 基督教坟场) was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony. It is the last resting place of the artist George Chinnery, missionaries Robert Morrison and Rev. Samuel Dyer, Royal Navy Captain Henry John Spencer-Churchill (son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough and great-great-grand-uncle of Winston Churchill) and US Naval Lieutenant Joseph Harod Adams (grandson of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and nephew of the sixth, John Quincy Adams).

I really liked this cemetery, especially for it’s engravings of the stones with short statements who those people are and and sometimes a note how they died.

A beautiful and quite place in buzzing Macau. Plan in at least an hour. It is not pretty big but times flies when reading all the tombstones.

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"He assisted in setting up the first magnetic telegraph in Japan"

".. who dies after a painful and lingering illness"

"About!"

"… who dies by a fall from a loft on board of the U.S. Ship Plymouth"

They all died pretty young

Travel Link: Macau Travel Guides and Books