South Korea · Travel Tales

An Autumn Morning on Nami Island

Notes on visiting Nami Island, Petite France, and the Garden of Morning Calm in one day from Seoul: Preparations Reserve your ITX-Cheongchun tickets here. Print out your reservation form. This is not your ticket; more on this later. Print out a discount coupon (1 for each person) for Petite France here. This gives international tourists… Continue reading An Autumn Morning on Nami Island

South Korea · Travel Tales

The Haneul Park: How to turn a landfill into a tourist spot

So — we had spent the morning in Gangnam and a couple of hours in Ewha Womans University, and in the later afternoon I was dragging my husband to our last stop for the day — the Seoul World Cup Park. The Haneul Park stands on what used to be a landfill up to the early 90s. Massive… Continue reading The Haneul Park: How to turn a landfill into a tourist spot