Guest Houses in Seoul

... on a lovely sunny walk around Bukchon (meaning 'North Village’).  Hanok are traditionally built Korean one-storey wooden houses with a tiled (upper class yangban) or thatched (peasant family) roof.  The homes of yesteryear, they’re ...

... confusing.  The new and imposing mixes with the old and small in a quite odd way.  I've seen many traditional houses in decaying state only 5 minutes from groups of skycrapers. -In Korea, people don't speak much english...  People that ...

... buldings there were all original and has been transported from various parts of Korea. It was great to meander round the houses, peeking into traditional rooms, trying out some of the games they used to play and watching men weaving various products out ...

... found online. Its called the Bukchon Hanok Village. It is a neighborhood made of preserved Traditional Korean wooden houses called Hanoks. The area consisted of twisting back alleys, and rustic wooden homes that appeared to be minorly tweeked ...

... I've never seen before - with huge apartment complexes sprouting up everywhere (there's just no room for everyone to live in houses). There must be laws regulating colour and design because the buildings all look very similar. From the sky cities look ...

... in the houses and are always entered without shoes. Impressive but not always beautiful to look at are the huge apartment buildings. Single family houses are hard to find. Hyae Won, Michael, thanks for this fantastic week. It was a lot of fun to be your ...

... the way to the 38th parallel, which is where some people live (mainly farmers) who are protected 24/7 and are required to be in their houses with windows and doors locked at 11 pm.  We got to the army base and we were told not to look soldiers in the ...

... most visitors would regard as more of a hamlet. These capitals usually consist of one or two main market areas, a small number of guest houses and local restaurants (only serving Mongolian food), a bank, school and a local bath house for washing. UB is ...

... one of the nicer rooms. Our room was of traditional Japanese design and very nicely appointed. As is very common in traditional Japanese guest houses, toilet and bath facilities are shared. You may consider it good or bad news that it is a ten second walk ...

... airport freeway, passing temples, houses, slums, roof-top gardens, rakish skyscrapers, down into the city and Khoa San road, the guest houses and crowds and shopping and deep-fried scorpions. And all for just one night. On the islands and now in Bangkok, ...

... come to travelers. I still had to get a taxi too from the train station to a guest house. While I had contacted guest houses in Agra and had a couple with availability I hadn’t contacted them more recently to tell them exactly when I was coming. I ...

... runs through Bangkok. Today, we visited the major historic sites this city has to offer: the magnificent Wat Pra Kaew which houses the famous Emerald Buddha, the Grand Palace and Wat Po, where a massive reclining Buddha resides.  All these sites ...

... that have been built in the most unusual places.  Nearly every town was built at the very top of the mountain, bamboo houses and stores directly on the lane and a half roadway, forcing everyone to walk fully on the highway. The front doors open ...