Reflections on Travel: Northeast Asia

As a four-decade Certified Travel Agent, international airline employee, researcher, writer, teacher, and photographer, travel has always played a crucial and fundamental part in my life. 400 excursions were made by land, sea, air, and other modes of transportation to every part of the globe. result macau The primary focus of this essay is on people from Northeast Asia.

It was a rare opportunity to travel to Hong Kong while it was still ruled by the British.

Every inch of the city was taken up by skyscrapers, which rose like modern monoliths of concrete, steel, and sun-glittered glass on the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon sides of the city, which were separated by Victoria Harbor. These thriving, commercial metropolises made an effort to combine western and eastern, ancient and modern, culture while clinging to the past. Frequent Star Ferry crossings above ground and tunnels that sucked up traffic and subways below ground connected them. For instance, a visit to a sizable breakfast buffet featured both the standard fare and Chinese options like dim sum.

My itinerary for touring included a region that is rapidly expanding.

The Suzie Wong district of Wanchai, Deep Water Bay, and Repulse Bay, with its beaches, were popular tourist destinations. There was also the Stanley Market, a sizable collection of stores and stalls that sold affordable items including designer apparel, porcelain wares, bamboo, and rattan. Formerly a part of a farming and fishing community, Stanley Market is now a residential neighbourhood. A tram ride up Victoria Peak, which rose from 80 feet along Garden Road to 1,305 feet Peak Tower, offered new perspectives in addition to highlighting the city's fishing history.

An insight into the country's old, cultural past was offered by the Sung Dynasty Village, a reconstruction of Bian Jing, the capital of China during the Sung Dynasty (960–1279 AD). With its layout of streets, a wooden bridge spanning a stream, and triumphal arches sheltering shops selling everything from incense and fans to silks, handicrafts, and wood carvings, it offered a multi-sense immersion upon entering though its main time portal gate. Live performances added to the overall effect.

15 miles north of Kowloon's bustling coastline, office skyscrapers, and shining hotels lay the "country between" of the New Territories, a region of undulating, green hills, carefully terraced fields, rural markets, and fishing communities. At the time, it shared a border with Communist China with Hong Kong.

While here, we went to Chuk Lan Sim Yuen, Tai Mo Shan, the tallest mountain, and Luen Wo Market.

The Yucca de Lac Restaurant's lunch menu included fried chicken with lemon sauce, spare ribs with champagne and tangerine sauce, diced pork with cashew nuts, fried rice with ham, and ice cream. The restaurant boasts a view of Tao Harbour. Additionally included was corn soup with bean curds and green kale in oyster sauce.