Walking and Hiking Tours of Busan

We had always wanted to visit Sarak-San​ (Mountain) and the Korean DMZ, but after 20 years of living in Korea and/or Asia, had never made it to the two most popular tourist destinations in South Korea, so, with some time off and a flight departing from Incheon (Seoul) a week later, it was primetime to finally go!! DAY 1) Tuesday, woke up early and went to the Kimhae Airport, where we caught our early flight to Kimpo Seoul Airport on Cheju Air. It's actually not that bad for a discount airline.  45 minutes later, we bought our Kimpo-Sokcho bus tickets and ate breakfast at Steff Hotdog.  The three hour bus ride was scenic, asides from the horrendous bus driver and/or the other drivers.  I only wish I hadn't of gotten a front row seat exposing me to the windshield (a case of ignorance is bliss would have been great in this case).  One nice note: the roadside stop had excellent peeled potatoes roasted in butter, akin to french fries in a brown bag from an Ottawa ...

We had always wanted to visit Sarak-San​ (Mountain) and the Korean DMZ, but after 20 years of living in Korea and/or Asia, had never made it to the two most popular tourist destinations in South Korea, so, with some time off and a flight departing from Incheon (Seoul) a week later, it was primetime to finally go!! DAY 1) Tuesday, woke up early and went to the Kimhae Airport, where we caught our early flight to Kimpo Seoul Airport on Cheju Air. It's actually not that bad for a discount airline.  45 minutes later, we bought our Kimpo-Sokcho bus tickets and ate breakfast at Steff Hotdog.  The three hour bus ride was scenic, asides from the horrendous bus driver and/or the other drivers.  I only wish I hadn't of gotten a front row seat exposing me to the windshield (a case of ignorance is bliss would have been great in this case).  One nice note: the roadside stop had excellent peeled potatoes roasted in butter, akin to french fries in a brown bag from an Ottawa ...

We literally had our first pure staycation, ever.  It happened to be in Busan in the middle of June 2017.  This is our story. The previous week, Hite Beer and HomePlus delivered three cases of beer (12X500ml), since I had bought a case and the handle broke, which ended up with three beers meeting a grisly death and I cut my hand.  The Hite Beer guy took my phone # & we'll go out for a few later in the summer.  He majored in English at KSU. He also suggested the Hite-Jinro factory tour in JeonJu City (famous for bibimbap) for free.  They pick up 30 friends at 7am in Busan by bus and return by mid-afternoon, which includes booze and bibimbap. WEEK ONE: 2017 SUMMER VACATION BUSAN Carol had such a long and busy year, so I insisted that she stay in Busan for a week, ALONE (not to be a tour guide).  She was reluctant, but agreed.  At the end of the week, she said it was such a great idea.  She went out during the day with April Quimpo quite a b...