One of the local draws is Suseong Lake, a pretty lake to walk around at night and to just sort of enjoy the lake. We walked there, grabbed a warm drink and then proceeded to walk around the lake. It's small enough that you can easily walk around the whole thing without getting to tired, [...]
My first full day in Daegu was exhausting. Mostly because we spent the entire day downtown shopping. Summer has snuck up on me and I've begun to look a bit like a cartoon character. With a limited wardrobe and wearing the same thing every week. It helps that my friend loves shopping so she had [...]
My friends apartment is surrounded by cafes. So we decided that that would probably be a good idea for breakfast every day. Get up, go outside, and see what a place had to try for breakfast. Some places we were a bit late to and didn't have much breakfast-y food, like Enoch Coffee. However we stuck [...]
My friend only really had one thing planned when I arrived and it was to go to Seomun Market. This market is usually open only during the day and hasn't changed much other than growing bigger and bigger since the Joseon Dynasty. It's major selling point is fabrics but other things can be found as [...]
After awhile of not being sure what to eat we settled on a popular foreigner spot in Daegu that my friend really likes. In Korea, beer (맥주) is somewhat limited to Cass and Hite. There's not a ton of options when it comes to beer or arguably alchohol in general unless you find some place [...]
There are not a lot of vacation days this year. Not a lot of three day weekends as the holidays keep falling on Saturdays or Sundays which makes it difficult to travel. So as soon as I finished flipping through my calendar and found a three day weekend I bothered a friend in Daegu who [...]
At about 4:50 am- ridiculously early again- I was up and packed. One of my bags was filled with snacks and my last carton of an iced chai latte. I woke up my friend around 5:15, trying to make sure we were out the door on time. I placed my bag into the basket of [...]
My last day in Kyoto was reserved for Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, nicknamed USJ. USJ is accessible from Kyoto via train. Just be careful not to get on the Osaka loop train which doesn't go to USJ. Instead there is a train that announces it goes to Universal Studios. The second train we boarded [...]
Kinkaku-ji also known as the Golden Temple was our last stop on our rather intense sightseeing day. We managed to make it in right before they stopped letting people in which was quite awhile before their 5pm closing time. Kinkaku-ji is a Zen temple and the retirement villa of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. It inspired the [...]
Our next stop on our busy tourist day was Nijo Castle. Which was undergoing some construction. After paying to get in, 600 yen, we went in Ninomaru palace which was a hauntingly beautiful experience. The castle was built in 1603. Ninomaru palace is where the shogun would live and work while in Kyoto. The corridors are Nightingale floors [...]
