Korea: Jeju

Domestic flights within Korea are super cheap, because Korea is about the size of Virginia or Kentucky (a bit smaller, actually). From busan to Jeju, you can fly for $60–80 roundtrip easily. And that’s awesome, because Jeju is the hawaii of Korea.

Korea: Seoul

Seoul is more like a conglomerate of different baby cities than just a regular old city — like Los Angeles. Except the public transportation is done so well here!

Korea: JeonJu

Again, I took the bus from Gunsan to get to Jeunju, and another thing I’ve wanted to do is eat Korean convenience store food! So here are two rice ball thingies I’ve never seen before.. and they were both just very o.k. and overpriced.

Peru: Cusco

Cusco was the capital of the Incan Empire, and is home to lots of the ruins and remains of the Incans as well as the colonial Spanish architecture — still intact from the colonial era. It is way higher in altitude than Lima, so make sure you get lots of coca tea (served in many hotels/hostels) and walk…

China: 3 hours in Shanghai

I had a 7 hour layover in Shanghai, and there’s not really actual internet in china. So I was like, why not, let…

Korea: Busan

Again, I took a bus to get to my next destination from Namwon: Busan. It’s the second largest city in Korea, and just four hours away from Namwon. It’s also a conglomerate of different large neighborhoods, and there is no single downtown area.

Korea: Gunsan

I visited Gunsan because it was the last city in which I lived before I immigrated to the United States!

Conveniently enough, you can get from city to city very easily via the public long distance buses.

Peru: Miraflores

If you’re going to Lima, you don’t want to be downtown. Downtown has nothing to do and sketchy neighborhoods. Miraflores, on the other hand, is a beach town, located right near Lima, with lots of restaurants and attractions.

Austria: Christmas in Vienna

Vienna is one of the best cities to celebrate Christmas in Europe!

There were 10 christmas market, all located right near each other (or one, a train ride away). I actually don’t remember which was which, because there were so many. But six lesser ones…

Peru: Ica & Huacachina

Besides Lima and Cusco up north, many of the other cities seem to be small and not quite developed, from what we’ve seen on our drive down. The closest city to Paracas was Ica, where we arrived late at night. The hotel said they lost our reservation made on Expedia because we made it too…