Visiting the Ghibli Museum is not an easy feat. First you need a ticket and you can't buy those at the museum, you have to buy them elsewhere and ahead of time, and they can sell out fast. Which is why it's taken me this long to get there. Tickets are sold through very specific [...]
Osaka Castle isn't the original castle. It was rebuilt several times and the one currently standing in Osaka was built 1931. It's more of a castle grounds with a few replica buildings up, such as Tenshukaku, or the castle museum. The museum is about Hideyoshi Toyotomi who had the original castle built in 1583. Several [...]
Our first stop in Lexington after some advice at the visitors center was the Mary Todd Lincoln House. The Mary Todd Lincoln House is open from Monday-Saturday from 10am until 3pm and closed on Sundays. There are tours every hour with the last one being at 3pm for $12 per adult. It is the first [...]
When I first tried to make plans to go to Jeju when I arrived in Korea one of the things I found was O'sulloc tea museum and I got ridiculously excited. I love tea. So it was one of the main things on my must do list while in Jeju and luckily my friend agreed [...]
Taking Line 2, 4, or 5 to Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station and exiting out exit 1 will bring you to the DDP. Dongdaemun Design Plaza is a strange silver spaceship like structure which is host to a variety of events like Seoul Fashion week and from April 15- August 8th Pixar's 30th Anniversary exhibit. Located [...]
One thing we had agreed on as a must before leaving for Taiwan was Jiufen. However it wasn't anywhere near where our friends lived and with our flight leaving early the following morning we decided to cut our visit of Taichung early, hop on a bus, book a hostel in Taipei and spend our last day [...]
After our journey to the waterfall we returned to downtown Luang Prabang and split up to do some touristy things, like visit the Royal Palace also known as the National Museum. The museum grounds are big with a variety of things to see depending on when you go. I spent the majority of my time [...]
COPE, or the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise has a visitor center/ museum in Vientiane. It may seem like an odd thing to visit, a visitor center about prosthetics but it's a very important organization and eye opening, especially as an American. I would highly suggest giving yourself time to watch the almost hour long documentary [...]
After the DMZ we made our way back to the beach and visited a couple of buildings and houses of old presidents. The first was the Castle of Hwaginpo, or Kim Ilsung's villa. Kim Ilsung was a president of North Korea and the castle was summer-house for him, his family, and the communist party for [...]
Deoksungung Palace is located near Seoul Plaza a short walk from the City Hall station. After our Chicago inspired lunch we headed to the palace specifically to see art currently on display at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art that is within the palace grounds. The exhibit is over now, but the Korean [...]
