I'm no travel expert or anything but I do know a few things that helped me a lot when travelling. Preparing your own travel itinerary. Yes, having a travel itinerary is really important, not only you would be free from worries like; "Which public transport is the safest, cheapest, quickest to my destination?" "Where is the nearest money changer?" "Is there halal food restaurants nearby?" , but you would also have the best time of your life. Did I mention its really fun preparing one? When you make research on the POI, you would learn more about the country you're visiting. You will know which restaurant serves the best noodle soup, what kind of sim card you should get, theme parks with their discount codes, the best time and place to watch the sunrise etc. The list goes on friends. Here's the travel itinerary my mum did for our trip to Hong Kong 3 years ago;

Type it out on your Words, print and you're ready to go. You don't need to be too strict with yourself and follow 100% of what you've prepared. For instance, during your preparation/research period, it wasn't said online that there would be a parade or art exhibition or something like that. But when you're there, suddenly, theres this event that you came across and really want to go. But because of your "travel itinerary", you decided not too. Don't stress yourself friends, be open to changes and make decisions that would still fit to your time there.

Below are some pictures taken during my trip there. If you notice, there's no pictures of food lol, apparently I'm not really a big fan of Hong Kong food >//<  Also in our itinerary, we did not mention anything about Ocean Park, but we went there nonetheless because that was a last minute change of plans that could fit in our itinerary. Improvise, my friend.

xx