Brian and I have enjoyed all of our visits to Seoul over the years, but we decided that it was high time we explored some new territory. We took a long weekend to check out Busan which is on the Southern tip of the Korean peninsula and the 5th largest port in the world. While it is a big city like Seoul, it had a different more laid back feel which we thoroughly enjoyed. We flew into Seoul, got a bus to the train station, took the high speed KTX train down to Busan, and finally made it to our hotel by subway. Korea really makes it easy for tourists to get around even when one doesn’t speak a word of Korean.

Busan Station

Our first afternoon there we were pretty tired from our red eye flight, but we managed to get up the energy to take a hike at Igidae park, a lovely little forested park on the coast. I think we were the only ones there not retired or wearing high tech hiking gear, but we survived. The views were lovely, and the air temperature was perfect.

The trails were very well maintained.

Rock cairns alongside the trail.

Looking out over Busan

In case hiking was not enough exercise there were work out stations all along the trail.

I'm so happy not to be wearing a sweater!!

A few post-hike drinks.

The only wildlife we spotted, but impressive none the less.

After our hike we made our way back to our hotel via Brian’s favorite new store.

To round out our day (we were pretty much zombies by this point) we took the easy way out and ate in the hotel.

Goodnight Busan!