The practice of Kau Chim at the Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Chin Temple, Kowloon, Hong Kong

I arrived in hong kong during a very hot, sticky and rainy afternoon. My first impressions were not terrific as the city loomed large and grey. I was told navigating the airport would be easy, and to just look for the green taxi rank signs. The only green sign I could find pictured a human form apparently on fire. This might have been an exit sign, but I never did determine why the human was on fire. I finally found the taxi ranks. My taxi driver knew good english but repeate

Ngang Po 360 cable car ride to the Big Buddha at the Po Lin monastery

I traveled Hong Kong for the first time this May. My daughter had been studying at the Chinese University in Sha Tin. Though she was more than capable of getting herself home, I used the excuse of collecting her to visit this thriving island city. Once again, I consulted Atlas Obscura. I was keen to stay close to my hotel, so I needed to find some spectacular to see near Sha Tin. I decided to visit the Wishing Trees of Fong Ma Po village, Lam Tsuen. The Tin Hau Temple, built

I love my travel, and I am a fairly good planner. But I have two issues: I don't do my travel homework as thoroughly as I should and I have a serious problem with follow-through. On this occasion, I assumed that because Macau was close to Hong Kong, it would be easy to get to. A quick jaunt for a bit of gambling and nightlife. I was wrong. I also might have not known that Macau was a different country, but I would never admit that here. Macau is an autonomous region across th

The Island of Pulau Borneo is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. The island is politically divided by three countries: Malaysia and Brunei in the north, Indonesia in the south. Sabah is the northern state if Malaysian Borneo, and this is where I was lucky enough to visit. After a two hour flight from Hong Kong on Air Asia, we landed in Kota Kinabalu. KK (for short), formerly known as Jesselton, was a major port and owned by the British North Borneo