Orient
The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world.
The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.
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Worth seeing in and around Orient
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Orient Long Beach Bar Light
Orient Long Beach Bar Light is a lighthouse off Orient, New York. It was originally a screwpile lighthouse that was later converted to concrete caisson foundation.
3.4 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Orient
- Airports
- Bradley (BDL), 94 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 98 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 136 km
- Hartford → Orient76 km · quickest by road, 5h 41m · $25–35
- Providence/Warwick → Orient97 km · quickest by road, 7h 10m · $33–45
- New York → Orient151 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · $13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Orient
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Orient. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIn order to get onto this island, you must take either: North Ferry, +1 631-749-0139.
- Get inAt the end of Wiggins Street, ferry traffic makes a hard right turn and continues turning right to enter the final staging area.
- Get inThe ferry line takes you away from the ferry, around a loop, and back in line facing the ferry dock and passenger terminal.
From Wikivoyage: Shelter Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2021-05.
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Next door to Orient
- Orient Historic Districthistoric district in New York, United States400 m