Travel magazine
Six running series and hundreds of articles, written by the people who plan the trips.
When to go
Seasons, month by month, region by region
What it costs
Real budgets in dollars, with tables
Routes that work
Tested itineraries and combinations
Eating across Asia
What to order and where
On foot
Treks and long walks, described honestly
Before you book
Visas, permits, timing, practicalities
What we would skip in South Korea
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
Hiking Seoraksan, and how Koreans actually hike
South Korea is roughly seventy percent mountain and it is one of the great walking countries of Asia, which almost nobody says…
Seoul in four days, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
Seoul is a city of about ten million people that was substantially destroyed in the early 1950s and rebuilt at extraordinary speed,…
South Korea for the first time
Most first visits to South Korea go well. The country is safe, clean, superbly connected and easier to travel than almost anywhere…
South Korea in ten days, and why that is enough
Ten days is enough for a first trip to South Korea: four nights in Seoul, then Andong or Jeonju, Gyeongju and Busan…
South Korea month by month
The best time to visit South Korea is mid-September to early November, with late April to early June a close second. Month…
South Korea with children
South Korea is one of the two or three easiest countries in Asia to travel with children, and it is the one…
What to eat in South Korea, and where
Korean food is why a large minority of our clients come, and it is the part of the trip that first visits…
What does ten days in South Korea actually cost?
The cost of a trip to South Korea is the first question on most of the enquiries that reach my desk, and…
Korea and Japan in two weeks: the best fourteen-day route out of Seoul
Every destination in our library gets an article called "the best two-week route through X". For South Korea, the honest version of…
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