Tag: South Korea 2024

Apart from the Suncheon Bay National Garden and the Wetland Reserve, there’s actually a number of other attractions in the city of Suncheon: just that they didn’t look especially enticing for tourists like us. The Suncheon Drama Film Set though

The wife quipped that the Suncheon Bay National Garden was built because there were so many visitors to the wetland reserve that the city had to figure out a way to divert some of them away from the reserve! In

Continued from the previous post! We’d explored the East Garden for 3 hours, and needed to find some lunch. The park has a couple of cafes sprinkled throughout the area, but most seemed to be closed. What we found open

We’ve enjoyed pretty good weather in the first six days of our vacation in South Korea, the cold weather notwithstanding: it’s been reasonably sunny throughout and we’ve gotten very usable pictures in such good lighting. Day 07 today finally saw

For most tourists with just a couple of days to spend in the town, the key places to visit would be the Suncheon Bay National Garden, the Wetland Reserve, and the Nagan Eupseong Folk Village. There are about a dozen

We’d spent five nights in Busan and relocated to our next city, Suncheon, on Day 06 morning. In retrospect, we could have allocated a few more days in Busan to explore other places in this very modern city, but five

The last time we stayed in an Airbnb property while on vacation was in Taiwan in Dec 2018. We largely avoided exploring this option for our Japan trips in the subsequent years. From what our research told us, there seems

Our fifth stop in our guided tour of Gyeongju was Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond. The visit to the palace grounds was at sunset – which I think was very intentional, as the illumination lights come on and paint the

It was about 3:15PM when we left Woljeong Bridge, but we’d return at 6PM to see the same bridge at night. The next stop was the Daereungwon Royal Tomb and the Hwangnidan-gil shopping street beside it, and this spot was

We spent over an hour at Bulguksa Temple, then headed off to a lunch stop at our own expense. Most of the guests lunched at a Korean restaurant, while we pigged out at Burger King: a dining option that was

During our planning of our itinerary, we debated over how to spend the fifth full day of our stay in Busan: whether to take a day trip out of the city, or just stay put for more retail therapy. One

Our last activity for Day 04 and also our usage of the Busan Visitor Pass: taking a yacht cruise at sunset. The company we were with was called Yacht G, and the boat was a Leopard 45, apparently a branded