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 on our last day in Kentucky was the Old Fort which was the first settlement in Kentucky. It is a full-scale replica of a fort built-in 1774 by James Harrod. Tickets are $7 and include entrance to the Lincoln Marriage Temple and museum on the edge of the parks entrance. Also on [...]
After our exploration of the Tea Museum and Innisfree's Jeju House we grabbed a cab and went to Camellia Hill. This was because it would be faster than any other way. (Walking was estimated to take about 2 hours, a bus walking combo being 40 minutes and taking a taxi about 16 minutes). Camellia Hill [...]
Located off of the purple line 5 station Yeouinaru is Yeouido Hangang Park 여의도한강공원. It's a great place to go if you want to catch a cruise on the river, have a picnic, or play. With a children's park on one end and the river lined with restaurants on the water there's plenty of space to [...]
The Daejeon Arboretum/ Grand Park is a beautiful spot to get a breath of fresh air. At first I wasn't very impressed. We entered through a side entrance that took us through the woods and into the Arboretum where there was some plants, mostly flowering trees and special gardens which were blocked off and inaccessible. [...]
There's two types of people who visit the Kuang Si waterfalls, hikers and swimmers. People are either dressed for hiking, with sensible shoes, cameras, bug protection and hats or in flip-flops with a towel over their shoulder. We were the latter and the minority. When visiting Kuang Si Waterfalls our tour guide booked us a [...]
All throughout Gyeongju are tombs that look a bit like giant hills or mounds. Accross from Nordic is the Daereungwon Tomb complex famous for Cheonmachong and Hwangnamdaechong Tomb. Hwangnamdaechong Tomb is the biggest, with two tombs of a royal husband and wife and a remarkable amount of gold and relics buried with them. However you can't see in [...]
Recently we've had a lot of field trips. One was a teachers only trip to Gangwon-do Provincial Flower Garden which is near Chuncheon on a very rainy day. I'd been told we'd be going on a picnic, but it seems that was a bit of a misunderstanding since we didn't eat in the park at all. We hovered [...]
Cherry Blossom season can be intense. There's all these warnings about how there are more people than cherry trees or even cherry blossoms at some of the larger sites like the Yeouido Park. But Nathalie and I went early in the morning on a Sunday and there weren't many people at all. Leaving us plenty [...]
Olympic Park was one of the places suggested to me to go. It was built in 1988 when South Korea hosted the summer Olympics in Seoul. We really only had time to visit the world peace square. There is a lot more to do in the park that we didn't have time for. There's a [...]
