What is your agenda when you Travel?
By poohgal
@poohgal (6845)
Singapore
December 20, 2007 11:37am CST
Most of us here have traveled to at least one Country before? Different people will have different agendas for their travel. For example, some will go food (the best local delicacies offered by the country), some will go for sight-seeing and others will go shopping?
Which is of most importance to you when you travel? What is your agenda when you travel?
Personally, I love traveling. When I travel to a Country, the most important thing to me is sight-seeing. I can do without the local delicacies. You can give me bread and water, and I'll be very happy. =D I like shopping but I cannot shop for the entire day. Sight-seeing is a must for me. I like to take beautiful pictures of the rivers, mountains, lakes, shrines and etc. I also love viewing the night scenery. I love going up tall buildings or hills to watch the night scenery.
How about you? =D
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6 responses
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
20 Dec 07
i'm too like u, i like sight seeing alot and if given a chance, i will wanna go new zealand for sure :) BUt for hiking, i will go taiwan and hongkong 1st b4 i go to mount ophir all that :) hehe.. i dun like shopping though unless i go to countries wear their things are cheap, only than i will shop.. Even though i've been to bangkok and malaysia quite a few times, but normally is on short business trips with my frenz.. Real sight seeing, i haven seen any yet so far :(
@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
20 Dec 07
I just came back from Hong Kong. To me, that's more of a shopping and eating place. They also have beautiful night scenery. You have to go up to The Peak to see it. =D
The only country that I've been and seen really beautiful scenery is Japan. I love Nara and Kyoto. They are both very beautiful cities. They are very different from Tokyo and Osaka. I would love to go to Hokkaido. I have not been there before. New Zealand seems like a very beautiful place too. I would love to go there for Farm Stay one day. =D
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
21 Dec 07
wow.. hongkong lei.. A place for the rich ple to go.. LOL =P hongkong is indeed a eating and shopping paradise and if u go out from their main cities and go to those islands, such as lautin island, the scenery there is equally breathtaking too =D hehe.. Japan is a nice country too, and did u get to see the cherry tree blossom?? hehe.. HOkkiado is a popular place with tourist and i dunno y till i go there 1 day too =D BUt new zealand, i definitely wanna go, because of the apple garden and the lakes and scenery there :) just so nice :) hehe
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
21 Dec 07
ha ha ha... what is traveling without local food?
To truly enjoy the culture of the country, we not only must see the sights and the people, food is just as important!
We will be able to bring back memories of the sights we see from our photographs. We will be able to bring back the spoils of shopping from these trips.
But one thing you will always remember the most is the food!
Food transcends all languages. If it is good, it is good. If it is not, it is not!
Tell me, the last trip you went on, the first thing that comes to mind is? FOOD! Cos that is usually the first meal you have when you are on a guided tour!
Then after food, comes scenery! I love to see the different designs of the buildings, the beautiful nature of mountains, rivers and lakes, something that we will never get in our country!
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
26 Dec 07
See what I mean when I say food is the one thing we will never forget?
You remembered the trip when I mention food and it happens to be Macdonalds. And the best part is, you even remembered who was the one who kept asking for it for every meal.
heh heh... so was Hong Kong a nice place to visit?
@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
21 Dec 07
I know you are the 'Food' guy. =P
The last trip I went? It was to Hong Kong a month ago and it was a free and easy tour. Guess what? We didn't have any dim sum, mango dessert, polo bun and etc. My very young cousin (4yr old) kept wanting to eat McDonald's! LOL
Thank goodness all of us are easy with food, if not, we might end up angry or disappointed.
@smacksman (6053)
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21 Dec 07
Well we are off to Auckland, New Zealand next month to attend a friends wedding. Never been to NZ or to Los Angeles, Fiji and Tokyo where we are taking stopovers for a few days each.
We are really looking forward to it and will enjoy sightseeing, shopping and eating locally in about equal measure.
By the time we are back in the UK i won't have much change from US$ 10,000 so it is something we don't do every year.
I need to write a lot more posts on Mylot to pay for it! haha
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
21 Dec 07
I really love to travel. When I choose an airport to fly to I have to have a number places nearby that would be interesting for sightseeing. I especially love tropical scenery like palm trees and golden sandy beaches. However I get bored easily so somewhere with lovely with interesting walks, a coral reef to enjoy snorkeling, native wildlife and sites with historical significance. I adore photography and get much pleasure from taking photos of stunning beaches, pretty beaches, gorgeous mountains, lovely buildings and interesting wildlife. Seeing towns and cities all lit up at night time can be exciting. I love to watch sunrises and sunsets. I tend to take my own food as well as buy food in local shops when I travel. My main agenda is to explore, capture the images I see with photography and have a fantastic time. Happy traveling.
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@redbubbles (329)
• Philippines
21 Dec 07
i love to travel too and meet people from other places. the things that i look forward to when i travel are the foods, scenery and of course shopping. shopping is always on the list because i want to have a memento of places that I go to. i love to bring tokens for family members and friends too. i have been to vietnam and japan already. i love the sceneries in japan than vietnam, but i like vietnamese food than japanese food. people in vietnam are friendlier and accomodating.
@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
21 Dec 07
I have been to Japan too. =D I found Japanese people very polite. As for Vietnam, I have not been there before. Hopefully soon. I heard the shopping and eating in Vietnam is very cheap. Japan is an expensive country to shop and eat in. I love the scenery in Japan too. =D
@trisna3105 (33)
• Indonesia
21 Dec 07
When arranging agenda what to do during travel to one country, I used to try to find out what are the interesting places to be visited that they have. Then try to get a hotel which has strategic location with the places I'd like to visit.
Secondly, I used to visit the traditional market to find out the foodcourt to taste their traditinal foods. I like to know the traditional foods for each country and also visiting their interesting places. I used to take a lot of picture for every countries that I have visited.
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