“The world
is a book and people who do not travel read only one page” I so much agree to
this line. Travelling gives us another view of life; it helps us know ourselves
better. When we travel with people we love, whole experience of travelling goes
to next level, our happiness doubles. If I have to tell about my definition of
perfect holiday, it should be a combination of relaxing and sightseeing both. I
don’t like going out and spending all the time in my luxury hotel only and I
also do not like doing sightseeing on someone else’s pace, it becomes hectic
and less fun that way.
I have
travelled places mostly with friends and my husband. With my parents I have
travelled only when I was very young. As I grew up, due to my studies and other
classes we never got chance to have any good holiday together. When I got to
travel abroad first, one thing which I missed the most was my parents. I wanted
them to see and experience everything that I was doing. From that time itself I
have this desire to take my parents on a holiday abroad. I want it to be a
place which is different than our country (which we have travelled together
many times) yet similar. And after travelling to Singapore, I feel that’s the
answer for me.
I would like
to take my parents to Singapore, which is a great travel destination. Singapore
is the microcosm of Asia. It has something for everyone. I am sure my parents
will admire the kind of discipline about cleanliness people follow there. Wide
roads, flyovers and well planned city, it is so much fun to drive around in
such place. Sentosa island is most famous place among tourists in
Singapore. Famous Merlion Statue is there, and there are many other highlights
like the Underwater World which I am sure will be something my parents
have never seen before. There is this very fun place Dolphin Lagoon, where
they conduct dolphin shows ( the kind of tricks they do will make them clap their
hands in joy :) ) Last
time when I was there I tried taking pictures of same but failed to capture those
fun moment well, now when my mom dad will get to see it in real my joy will be
doubled by seeing them happy. And now with Disneyland and universal studios
also being there, I am sure I would love to see my parents relive their childhood
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Signapore also has China town, which is good to give one a feel of
being in china, so I would like to take them there as well. And nothing gives
more pleasure then to find your own culture and people in another land, so trip
to little India will be there on my list as well. I would do lots of
shopping with my mom there and will help keep my dad in updating his travelogue
( he has this habit of noting down some details of new places he goes to for
future reference ;) )
All this and so much more is there in my mind but planning trip in real
is not as easy as lying on the rocking chair and day dreaming. It is so much of
work and efforts but who has time to plan for a break ;) yes the irony of our
generation. To rescue us there are these online travel planning and booking
sites available. And if it is from a reliable source then it’s like the cherry
on the cake. Yatra is one such site which I trust for travel panning and
booking. After all with ease of planning the travel the fun and happiness of
the travel is also important. When we pull out some days from our busy schedules
I don’t want to scratch my head about where to go and how to go. I want someone
else to take these headaches of mine and let me have happy time with my family.
Long talks, lots of food and laughter, some nice locations and lots of shopping
this is what makes a trip memorable and make us happy travellers. So when I
will travel to Singapore with my parents I want all of this, so that we bring
back lots of lovely memories as Happy Travellers.
PS: wrote this post for Creating Happy Travellers contest on Indiblogger by Yatra.
4 comments:
I was in Singapore in Feb-Mar this year... and it were the non-touristy places and aspects that I loved most. Will be blogging about them all soon enough...
All the best for the contest.
Arvind Passey
www.passey.info
Singapore is also there in my wish list....very nicely written....good luck for the contest Sweta :)
Thanks Arvind Ji....
I went to Singapore 5 years back, I was there for some conferences so did not get to enjoy the place so much. So want to go back there again :D
Thanks Ritesh :)
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