Asia Travel Journal

Asia includes a lot of diverse countries, from parts of Russia and Turkey, to India, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, and many more. I’ll probably get to see only a small subset of them in my life. This category page links to all of the posts from all of the Asian countries I visited after I started this travel journal. Entries on visits to cities and towns in Asia appear under a category page for their respective Asian country.

(I visited only one country in Asia before starting this journal, Japan. I loved it and hope to get back, so don’t be surprised if some entries from Japan pop up here at some point.)

Namdaemun Market and More

I didn’t leave the Seoul Botanic Garden this morning until close to noon. It’s a bit out from the core of the city, so it...

Seoul Botanic Park

I typically greatly enjoy botanical gardens. Hence, if there’s one in a city I’m visiting and I’m there during a season when the flora is...

National Museum of Korea

Still in Seoul, I spent the better part of the morning, and a bit more, in the National Museum of Korea. For definitional purposes, I...

Cheonggyecheon Stream and More

I had read about Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream even before I’d considered coming to Korea. In fact, while I can’t remember what led me to choose...

Doing the DMZ (Part One)

I think that when you visit Seoul, you have to visit the DMZ. As far as I know, there’s no law requiring it. It’s just...

Seoul Forest and Hangang Park

This afternoon in Seoul, I visited two parks, Seoul Forest and Hangang Park. There’s not much to report on that. So this should, theoretically, be...