Sadly our time in South Korea is coming to an end as tomorrow we fly home. It has been a great but exhausting trip.
Today on our last full day we visited our third palace and the largest one, Changdeokgung. This Palace was constructed in...
Today was a quieter day, I think we were a little tired from running around sightseeing. After a slow start and a visit to my daughter's workplace for a look around we headed off to Olympic Park.
Olympic Park is a celebration of the 1988 Seoul...
Looking for things that we might do that would take us to a different part of Seoul we came across a waterfall park in the mountains on our map. Intrigued we headed of on the subway to Yongmasan Station. When we got there, despite our...
Today we went for a trip to Yoido Island, an island in the Han River it is known as the Wall St of Seoul as it contains the financial workings of this large city. It is an upmarket area containing some stunning buildings as well...
Today we were a little tired from the long days that we have had since our time in Busan, so we set out on a stroll in our neighbourhood in Gangnam. Gangnam is the trendy up-market area of Seoul and everything has more of a...
One whole week in South Korea. Today we headed off to walk along part of the Han river, during our walk we came across some floating buildings. One thing I have noticed about Seoul is its interesting architecture and this floating centre had three buildings...
Today we moved on from Busan to Gangnam in Seoul, and no I have not started dancing Gangnam style. So before we left I went for a walk around the streets in the neighbourhood of our apartment and took some street photos with my fujifilm...
Today was our last day in Busan and what a contrast to yesterday's weather. We woke up to a cloudless sunny day. As the weather was good we headed to Haedong Yonggung Temple. This is a temple built into the cliffs over the sea. It...
Well woke up to a very wet day in Busan, we had planned on visiting a temple in the cliffs but decided to catch the subway to Jagalchi to visit the fish markets. This area is where the fishing boats come in and the fish...
Today we travelled by KTX express train from Seoul to Busan, I was able to use the 2.5 hour train ride to catch up post processing some of the photos that we took. I am surprised at how green and mountainous South Korea is. Once...