Why go? Lovely old streets to wander around (hanok village), interesting Kings’ burial mounds in the park, lot of blossom trees in spring, pleasant shopping area and a good indoor market. It’s also on the high speed line between Seoul and Busan (the KTX, high speed, train station, Singyeongju, is about 10km out of town). […]
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In 710 AD the first capital city was established in Japan, Nara, and there it remained until 794 when it moved to nearby Kyoto for the next 1,074 years before Tokyo became the capital in 1868. While Nara was the capital, Buddhism became officially supported alongside Japanese Shintoism, hence the abundance of significant, old Buddhist
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I lived in Japan for two and a half years and have visited three times since then, most recently in February/March 2019. When I say I love Japanese food, in reality I like roughly 5%, albeit that I like that 5% a lot. I love the idea of Japanese food in that the emphasis is
Connaught Place is the centre of Lutyens Delhi, conveniently pinpointed by an enormous flagpole (to the far left of the aerial photo; that photo is only half of Connaught Place) within a circular “Central Park” from which concentric circles of road and 1930s Georgian-style buildings radiate. The buildings around the rings are grand, colonnaded and
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At the end of a six-day working week, staying and working in the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, a peaceful, luxurious five star hotel, my friend and I had the Sunday off and decided to visit the Red Fort. Around the hotel are wide, tree-lined streets with an idyllic abundance of squirrels, birds, trees and
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I did not find a huge amount about Nagarkot online and most blogs contained similar and limited information, as mine will too because there’s not a lot to do there, so questions and answers seem the best format and I will answer my own questions, first with a brief answer and then with what end
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