Soul-t'ukpyolsi Vacations, Soul-t'ukpyolsi Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Today was the day I was finally able to get to the US Embassy to request additional passport pages. It feels good to get things done. I told school I'd be about 2 hours late, and around 8:30 left my apartment for the long journey to the embassy. As I was leaving my apartment, I was in high high spirits. The weather was beyond perfect -- glorious sunshine, a lovely breeze, warm and cleeeear (a rarity in Seoul) ... I was jamming out to my iPod with all good songs coming onto shuffle (another ra...

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Engin (Turkey), Joon (South Korea) Unfortunately my flight from Jeju-do arrived into Incheon airport, so i was still left with a fair distance to reach Insadong. I checked with the airport information desk about the new subway line that i heard had been built and was pleased to hear that i could catch this to Gimpo Airport and from here take the normal metro all the way to the station nearest to Beewon Guesthouse. What surprised me ...

I arrived at Incheon around 7pm and took one of those organized buses into the city. I had just spent the last two weeks traveling through China and I was a little burnt by this point, so I hadn't done any homework beforehand. I realized I had no clue where I was being taken. I randomly picked a youth hostel from my rough guide and showed the driver. Just to illustrate how courteous the Korean people are, the driver, who didn't know where my hostel was, pulled the bus over to take a better lo...

DMZ tour to check out the infamous area between Noth and South Korea. Checked out the 3rd Infiltration Tunnel dug by N. Korea into Seoul about... errr ..15 or so years ago. I hiked down and up the 30 degree 3rd Infiltration Tunnel in my 3-inch heels. I was one of the first 5 who came up first and my heels were intact! Ha! Beat that!