Survive & Thrive in Korea
The outside of the War Memorial has just as much to offer as the inside. The outdoor exhibition area contains monuments and statues, decommissioned vehicles and aircraft, and a host of other sights primed and ready for your picture taking pleasure. Here are a couple shots of the Clock Tower of Peace. Here is […]
Continue Reading
This past weekend I ventured to the The War Memorial of Korea also known as The Sanctuary of National Defense. I have to admit that I expected a brief run through of some nice busts and a wall of names commemorating the fallen in battle and that’s about it. I had often passed the site […]
Continue Reading
In the morning we checked out of our hotel and jumped into the tuk tuks which whisked us away to the river to head from Phnom Pehn to Siem Reap. We had booked passage on a 7am river boat departing from Phnom Pehn and arriving in Siem Reap six hours later. The cost was 25 US […]
Continue Reading
Cambodia Wat Phnom and The Royal Palace are two of the spots that I enjoyed the most on this trip. After the Killing Fields we headed back to town and made a pit stop at Wat Phnom. Wat Phnom sits atop a high hill and supposedly the first pagoda on this site housed four Buddha […]
Continue Reading
Seoul Tower makes one think of a Korean counterpart to the Tower of London: a towering cell for thieves and cutthroats piercing the night sky. In reality Seoul Tower is a breath taking beacon for all of Seoul standing atop of Namsan Mountain in Namsan National Park. Long ago, before the tower was erected, a […]
Continue Reading
Oh, sweet summer in Korea – a season that turns the city streets into a steaming cauldron, where sweat becomes a second skin and your hair seems to have a mind of its own. If you’ve ever experienced a Korean summer, you know that there’s one thing that reigns supreme in this hot and humid […]
Continue ReadingYou cannot copy content of this page