Tag: Pearl River Delta

• Tuen Ng Festival -The Dragon Boat Festivities

  2021…A subdued & shadowy celebration. This year again the races have been cancelled due to Covid. Sharing and savoring my 2012 Dragon Boat festival experience at Tai Po, Hong Kong. I can hear the waters calling the boats. It is the time of the year, again, when Hong Kong pulsates to the beat of drums and […]

  Travtrails

  June 14, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat

  Buddha, dolphins, Dragon boat, Duanwu Festival, Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta, Po Lin monastery, Stanley, stilt water houses, Tai O, Tuen Ng Festival, Zongzi

• Train Journeys- Past and Present

  The Prayagraj: The familiar bleak friable landscape interspersed with algae ponds, cattle and livestock in different stages of thinness grazing on non-existent grass, the sparsely cultivated fields, thatched huts, semi naked children chasing mangy dogs, men huddled on charpoys or walking listlessly with the familiar ‘lota’ (metal mug) for their morning ablutions, women, head covered, engrossed in washing, […]

  Travtrails

  February 16, 2020

  Accidental Expat

  Allahabad, Beijing, China, Hard Sleeper, Hong Kong, Indian Railways, New Delhi, Pearl River Delta, Prayagraj, Simla, Soft sleeper, the 1847 Indian Mutiny

• The Dragon Wagged Its Tail…Hong Kong-Beijing-Shanghai Express Train Journey…

  

  TRAIN JOURNIES REVISITED…. Train journeys, whether in home country or across continents, is a sure way of stepping on stones and warts. I am no stranger to train travel, short or lengthy, reveling in the feeling of searing across open land or tearing through crowded cities. But few have been flabbergasters as the one I […]

  Travtrails

  July 17, 2019

  Accidental Expat

  Asia, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hard Sleeper, Hong Kong, Indian Railways, Kowloon Tong, New Territories, Paul Theroux, Pearl River Delta, Sha Tin, Shanghai, Soft sleeper, train journeys