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In order to get to the port of Incheon, we had to go through a set of locks. On the drive from the port to Seoul, we noticed that there was a lot of traffic. We saw that there are many stark-looking high rise apartment buildings that all look alike and, therefore, are each indentified with a...

permalink written by  rcodel on March 18, 2011 from Seoul, South Korea
from the travel blog: World Cruise - 2011

Rest and Recovery with Jenn and Den

November 13 Saturday My legs are sore and crippled from yesterday, especially from the climb up Gatbawi. What could be better than a decadent morning starting with my making Green Mountain coffee for everyone! Jenn made us bacon and eggs, I laundered clothes, even my photo jacket. Almost...

permalink written by  chertop on November 14, 2010 from Ulsan, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

Hydrofoil back to Japan

November 15 Monday Suitcases packed, we headed out to the main thoroughfare for a taxi, Jenn and Arnold continuing for a walk. Taxi to bus station, intercity bus to Busan, an hour away, subway train to the fish market, another hour. We knew we had only 15 minutes for a brief glimpse of the...

permalink written by  chertop on November 14, 2010 from Pusan, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

Mountain Temples outside Daegu

I next got off at Gatwabi temple, together with a young Korean woman, who turned out to be a “salaryman” on vacation from her work in a trading company in Seoul. She is traveling around her country for a month. I knew the famous Buddha statue was a 2 kilometers hike away, but, if I had...

permalink written by  chertop on November 13, 2010 from Taegu, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

Korean Farm Visit

November 12 Friday Waking up before 7am, I packed and dragged my suitcase down the 3 flights of stairs. It is considerably heavier now that it contains 7 packages of Korean herbal medicine, 7 of them liquid. Mostly through acting it out, I conveyed my request that the hotel keep my...

permalink written by  chertop on November 12, 2010 from Taegu, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

Daegu's Korean Oriental Medicine Market

We took a taxi to Suwon train station and train to Taegu - past autumn forest hills, water standing in rice paddies, a cultivated pond of what appeared to be lotus root, acres of greenhouses (some open so I could see the smoothly manicured soil, others assembled with metal hoops, irrigation...

permalink written by  chertop on November 11, 2010 from Taegu, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

From Suwon's fortress to Daegu's dog soup

November 10 Wednesday Mary has been making strides in learning Korean and the people are delighted, and sometimes amused, to talk with her. Using a course loaded onto her Ipod, she hears the Korean, and writes memory clues to help remember it. While she studied this morning, I walked briskly...

permalink written by  chertop on November 10, 2010 from Taegu, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

Suwon's Korean Folk Village, Spa and Fortress

In Seoul, I had called the Hwaesong Guest House there, using Jenn's phone. Reaching Suwon subway station, I found a tourist info booth where an English-speaking staffperson wrote the name and phone number in Korean so I could give that to a taxi driver. He talked on his cell phone as he drove...

permalink written by  chertop on November 9, 2010 from Suwon, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

The Seoul of Asia

November 6 Saturday At 7:30am we left the hotel by bus for the DMZ, traveling out from Seoul into fields. Beside the expressway ran barbed wire which became higher as we drove north. Before we were allowed to enter the Demilitarized Zone, a soldier of the ROK (South Korea) came on the bus to...

permalink written by  chertop on November 8, 2010 from Seoul, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

Demilitarized Zone - 56 kilometers from Seoul

November 6 Saturday At 7:30am we left the hotel by bus for the DMZ, traveling out from Seoul into a countryside of fields. Beside the expressway ran barbed wire which became higher as we drove north. Before we were allowed to enter the Demilitarized Zone, a soldier of South Korea, the ROK,...

permalink written by  chertop on November 6, 2010 from Seoul, South Korea
from the travel blog: Japan and South Korea 2010

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