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  1. Hitching to the DMZ – North Korea and South Korea No Man’s Land – Part 2

    Blog: Vagobond.com - 9 December 2011

    This might be my only chance to see it before both Koreas disappeared in a cloud of nuclear smoke.

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  2. Hitching to the DMZ – North Korea and South Korea No Man’s Land – Part 1

    Blog: Vagobond.com - 6 July 2011

    If I took the number one bus to the end, then hitch hiked, I would be able to get to the DMZ without being on a tour bus.

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  3. Seoraksan National Park and the Sokcho Seafood– Sokcho Part 2

    Blog: Vagobond.com - 1 July 2011

    South Korea is a weird land of contrasts. On one side of a hand drawn ferry is a North Korean fishing village and on the other is a Baskin Robbins with wifi. Both have their charms.

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  4. North Korean Expats and Pig Blood Sundaes – Sokcho Part 1

    Blog: Vagobond.com - 29 June 2011

    I walked towards a large iron bridge and noted the thousands of fish drying on the roofs of nearly every house I passed.

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  5. 7 things to do this winter in and around Seoul – Go beyond the Capital

    Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 18 October 2010

    5) Go Beyond the Capital Dwarfed as it is by China to its North and Japan to its South-East, and portrayed in an old saying as being a shrimp between whales, it’s no wonder that many South Koreans think that their country is ‘small’, and I generally laugh at this considering where I come from. However, it is true that [...]

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  6. Sokcho

    Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 3 April 2010

    Original post dated 24 February 2009 For the first time, I saw the sun rise and set over Korea. Being on a bus heading for Sokcho at 6:30 am made it inevitable, as did the heading back at around 6 pm. On the North East coast of South Korea, right by the border with the [...]

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