Category: Traveling

The Running Man Busan experience center was a good 25 minutes cab ride away from Songdo Bay Station, but the cab we hailed was driven by what seemed to be a part-time F1 driver: he drove at high speed, weaved

It’s a short 5 minute walk from the Songdo Sky Park Station to the  Songdo Yonggung Suspension Bridge, a steel structure that connects Amnam Park to Dongseom Island, a tiny island with the bridge platform essentially running the circumference of

Busan has a multi-million population of 3.44, but the city feels compact with several places of interest to us not too far from our Airbnb apartment. The Songdo Marine Cable Car has two stations, with most visitors usually opting to

All of the places we visited after Gamcheon Culture Village were in the same general vicinity and easily walkable point to point. The route we took was Gukje Market, then BIFF Square, Jagalchi Fish Market, Gwangbokro Fashion Street, and finally

It was a short 15 minute cab ride from Gamcheon Culture Village to our next place – Gukje Market. The market has a huge number of homely shops and stores that offer a huge variety of wares, including all kinds

Some of the most iconic pictures taken by visitors to Busan are of a small town that has houses that are cheerful looking colors, and which sits on a steep hill. This place is Gamcheon Culture Village, which in 2009

It was actually our ang mo bud Matt who alerted me to the political tensions that started overnight two days ago: the headlines reported that the South Korean president had declared martial law in the country. That immediately got me

We’d be heading out for our 18 day vacation in South Korea soon, and here is my short post commenting on the gear and toys I’d be bringing over for the trip this time. We’d been watching of course the

It’s been more than 3 months since I posted an update on our planning for the year end holiday in South Korea. Basically, the broad itinerary we worked out in July was about right, so we didn’t think further about

We’re not travel bloggers. But it seems that over the last 5 years now, most posts we’ve written here about traveling! A good part of this is because as our two kids get older – and I routinely quip to