Musings

We had our first of four day trips out of Seoul on Day 10, and this trip today included three places in the Gangwon province. That we were on the road for almost six hours in all is an illustration

After almost 3 hours of exploring Ewha Street and Sinchon, we were ready to move on. We still had a good portion of the afternoon left though at 2PM, so we decided to head to Myeongdong – Seoul’s very famous

We’d at the midway point of our 18 day vacation in South Korea. On Day 09, our plan was to relocate from Suncheon and head to Seoul which we’d be using as a base for most of the rest of

Our decision to change our 4D3N middle segment of our vacation from the city of Ulsan to Suncheon was mad just 6 weeks before we were to fly off, and it was again on account that the places we would

Our next stop – Nagan Eupseong Folk Village – was quite some distance away from the Suncheon Drama Film set, but we easily found a cab to bring us there. The journey took 38 minutes, and we again had a

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 the visitors away from the reserve!

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 opened

We’ve enjoyed pretty good weather in the first six days of our vacation in South Korea, the cold weather not withstanding: it’s been reasonably sunny throughout and we’ve gotten very usable pictures in such good lighting. Day 07 today finally

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 retrospection, we could had 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