DMZ tour Korea: Wear shoes you can run in (updated 2018)
It’s an eerie feeling to be told you need to wear shoes you can run in when you visit Panmunjom on a DMZ Tour Korea, just outside of Seoul.
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Category: South Korea
Celebrating Buddha’s birthday festival in Seoul a highlight
Widely celebrated in many Asian countries, Buddha’s birthday festival in Seoul, South Korea, was one of the highlights of our visit there. We took part in temple celebrations, Buddha blessings and washings, were awed by colorful lanterns and candles, and attended parades….
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Seoul Airport layover: What to do?
So you have a layover in Seoul’s Incheon Airport, South Korea. If you know you have four or six or even nine hours in the Seoul airport, what can you do other than walk past the same trinket shop six times?
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Dongdaemun Design Plaza delights the senses
Although Seoul, South Korea, has ancient and historical sites and events that can delight, the modernistic, nearly space age Dongdaemun Design Plaza in the city’s bustling core shouldn’t be ignored.
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Marvel at Seoul’s shamanist Guksadang shrine on Mt. Inwang-san
High above Seoul, nestled among the rocky crags of the city’s western mountain peak sits a shamanist shrine that remains off the typical tourist track of South Korea’s capital. The Guksadang shrine and the surrounding complex on Mt. Inwang-san offers views of Seoul that are unsurpassed — if you are willing to be a little adventurous – HI Travel Tales’ mantra of course.
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