Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thailand has great charm and an air of mystery. Bangkok, with its rivers and winding canals, is an Asian Venice filled with hundreds of temples rising above the sluggish klongs like gilt and gaudy dreams. India, for most tourists, is limited to Bombay (where they land), Delhi (where they go to see the Taj Mahal at nearby Agra), Banaras (for its burning funeral ghats) and Calcutta (famed for slums and the Black Hole). Many tourist wonders lie off the beaten track but lack good hotels. Exceptions: the rose-pink city of Jaipur and Purion the Bay of Bengal, only...
Golden Domes. South Korea is anxious for tourists, but roads are poor and sights few. Formosa offers good Chinese food, lovely scenery at Sun Moon Lake and hot sulphur baths at Peitou. Indonesia offers rewards for visitors fortified by optimism and durability. Accommodations are poor and government officials often both inept and insolent, but there are wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description...
Yellow Stars. Hong Kong is far and away the most efficient tourist center and the most knowledgeable in combining the exotic, flavorful atmosphere of the East with the well-policed comfort and orderliness of the West. The city itself, officially called Victoria, is on Hong Kong Island. But the crown colony includes some 248 other islands, mostly small, barren and uninhabited, plus Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories on the Chinese main land-altogether some 398 square miles jammed with 3,000,000 people, 99% of whom are Chinese. Hong Kong booms with banks and stockbrokers, merchants and money lenders...
...Kowloon through the New Territories to the border with Red China, marked by a barbed-wire fence and a few Communist soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms at the frontier station on the Kowloon-Canton railway. Looking across the border at the blue hills and rounded mountains of China, the tourist feels the mystery of the unknown and unknowable, the amorphous weight of 670 million humans whose purposes and aims remain hidden. His mood is very like that of the 16th century Europeans who first set foot in China and stared with wild surmise at the Manchu Empire lying hugely between...
Freud considered himself unshockable, but a trip to Paris in 1885 made him blush. "I don't think they know the meaning of shame or fear; the women no less than the men crowd round nudities." His fiancee plans a tourist jaunt with a girl friend. Freud tut-tuts: "Should that be allowed? Two single girls traveling alone in North Germany!" At the age of 73, the famed silver-cord cutter is still in an Oedipal tangle with his 94-year-old mother: "I somehow could not forgive myself if I were to die before...