Travel Digest #2119

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Hello everyone! This is @ybanezkim26 and I'll be presenting today's edition of #TravelDigest. In our featured posts, we have a gondola in Lake Louise, Canada, a shrine in Tokyo, Japan, and a monastery in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Enjoy!

All featured posts are visible on the Editors Choice Map and upvoted by @pinmapple and our curation trail and potentially @blocktrades and @theycallmedan. For more travel digests check out #traveldigest.

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🥇 Lake Louise Gondola: Up Up and away by @ladyrainbow

Since covid and increase in traffic numbers and parking being limited, many areas that were free parking like Lake Louise now have a hefty day parking fee. I still have to visit and swallow my pride on the fees as it's too breathtaking to pass up. Once upon a time, we could drive a little further to Moraine Lake but once again, narrow winding road and small parking that became a real circus. From once being next to unknown to being one of the most famous lakes in Alberta and photography. Even at 3 am, it was already an impossible situation. Since then, driving up isn't allowed anymore and supplied bussing must be taken up from the gondola parking. Bus tickets are affordable-ish. Expensive but manageable and certainly worth the view. Book ahead if you can or risk a 4 hour wait.

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🥈 New Year's visit to Kanda Myojin Shrine / 神田明神へ初詣に行く(English＆Japanese) by @go-kyo

Kanda Myojin is a shrine where Daikoku-sama, Ebisu-sama, and the spirits of the warlord "Taira no Masakado" are enshrined, and is very crowded with worshippers at the beginning of the year. The shrine is said to bring good fortune in the form of prosperous business, good medical care, and good luck. I usually do not like crowded places, but the bustle of New Year's visit is different. Perhaps because I can feel the positive will of the people, I feel it is OK to go there.

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🥉 Po Lin Monastery And Its Solemn Land On Lantau Island (#MyLantauIslandExploration24) by @jane1289

The monasteries on Lantau Island are among the well-known tourist attractions. I went back to Po Lin Monastery for the fourth time because it's a location you want to return to for relaxation and meditation. And because I haven't featured it yet in Pinmapple, I decided to visit it again while touring my new friend.

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