What’s first on your bucket list? From an Amazon adventure to a Singapore food tour to Wimbledon tennis, five post-Covid dream trips from Hong Kong

Flight bans and quarantine rule out leisure travel from Hong Kong. When it resumes, Ollie Haas plans a trek in Colombia, Corey Riches a foodie trip to Beirut

Rodelia Pedro Villar would learn how to cook her favourite Singaporean dishes, Cristiane Ross would hit Greece, and for Joseph Wong it’s grand slam tennis

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A tribeswoman collects medicinal leaves in the Amazon jungle in Colombia, where Ollie Haas would go once leisure travel out of the city is possible again. He’s one of five Hong Kong residents who tell Post Magazine what’s top of their bucket list. Photo: AFP

Chris Dwyer

Published: 4:15pm, 12 Feb 2022Updated: 5:12pm, 12 Feb 2022

It’s a conversation we’ve had time and again in Hong Kong – when “normal” travel is finally possible, without weeks of enforced hotel quarantine upon return, where will we head first, and what will we do?

It’s a given that reconnecting with family and friends will be top of the agenda but, beyond that, people are hatching plans for the sorts of experiences and adventures that define the phrase travel writers love to hate – the one involving a list … and a bucket.

We spoke to five Hong Kong residents to discover what their early escapes will entail and the sights, sounds, experiences and flavours that they can’t wait to enjoy, from the manicured grass of London SW19 to the wilds of the Amazon jungle.

Colombia

Ollie Haas is a technology innovator working to build the world’s most sustainable airline. A former innovation project lead at Cathay Pacific, he is lured by the siren call of one of the world’s most intriguing – and arguably misunderstood – destinations.

“A trip to Colombia. Did I answer that too quickly?

Colombia is on the cards for technology innovator Ollie Haas.

“The country has graced the top of my list for at least the past decade. Coming from a mixed background – I am Austrian-Ugandan – I find myself drawn to the country’s incredibly rich diversity. I have a similar feeling for Brazil, another very diverse nation that I loved travelling through.