Celebrating the New Year on Jeju Island: part II
As I wrote in my last post, Celebrating the New Year on Jeju Island: part I, I spent four days with Adventure Korea in Jeju Island over my New Year’s vacation. On the third full day, after losing my voice from belting out too many songs in the noraebang the night before (namely “I Will Always...
Loveland: Jeju Island’s erotic sculpture park
We entered the park and and walked along a path laden with penis-shaped arrows, passing giant penis and vagina mosaics and sculptures of couples engaging in wild sex. We crossed paths with groups of ajosshi and ajumma (middle-aged Korean men and women) and heard a chorus of giggles. They must have been drunk. Or embarrassed. Or both. In...
Celebrating the New Year on Jeju Island: part I
Rather than wasting away in Hongdae over my short New Year’s vacation, I traveled to Jeju Island with Adventure Korea, a budget travel company catered to foreigners. I spent four days exploring the “Hawaii of Korea,” and although the temperature wasn’t quite Hawaiian-like, I thoroughly enjoyed walking along the coast, partying in Jeju’s biggest nightclub...
a portrait of Jangheung Harbor
New Year’s Day: Our bus rolled into Jangheung Harbor, signifying an end to four days on Jeju Island and a beginning to 2013. From the bus window, I glimpsed vividly colored, industrial shipping crates, arranged in rows along the edge of the harbor. They struck me as the perfect representation of a Korean island. With...
When is travel photography inappropriate?
“You’re crazy!” the taxi driver yelled at my friend Alex before muttering a long list of, what I assumed to be, Filipino curse words. We had just arrived at our guesthouse in Manila, and the taxi driver was demanding more money than was displayed on the meter. This was my first impression of the Philippines;...
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