Hi everyone, it’s almost the end of the year! But before that, let me take you for a one-night stay at Geumsunsa Temple in Korea ✨🪷🙏 Once again, thank you One Life Adventures for sponsoring the 10 Day South Korea tour! Yes, I’m their affiliate, so you’ll see me sprinkling some discount codes in my blog post 😉 We had some free time until around 1pm before departing for the beautiful, 600-year-old Buddhist temple. Since we didn’t have time to visit the famous Namsan Tower yesterday, our tour guide, Cheong An, gave us 15,000 KRW (equivalent to the entrance ticket price) and let us decide how to spend our free…
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Sake Tasting, Hida Beef, and Temple Stay in Takayama
Hi, everyone! This week, I’ll take you to Takayama, an old town in Japan. This old town is different from big cities like Tokyo or Osaka, it feels so traditional. You’ll love it! ❤️✨👍 I stayed for one night at Temple Hotel Zenkoji in Takayama for sake tasting and sampling Hida beef. I’ll keep it short and sweet for the Japan temple stay as I already had a long review about one in Koyasan. If you don’t go to Koyasan, you can experience it in Takayama 😊 But first, let’s start with the sake tasting! Visitting Japan isn’t complete without tasting their alcoholic drinks, especially sake. There are three types…
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Japan Temple Stay: Daimyoo-in, Koyasan
Hi, friends! Have you heard about Japan temple stay? This week, let me show you around the beautiful Daimyoo-in temple, located in Koyasan. Btw, sorry for the 1-month break. I just returned from Japan and China, back-to-back 🙈🙉🙊 I thought I would be fine, but I was exhausted… Luckily, I could sleep well because my AirAsia X airplane to China looked like THIS: Another curious passenger who sat behind me asked the steward about the airplane. Oh, it turned out AirAsia bought the airplane from Singapore Airlines. I felt so blessed I could cry… Thank you, Jesus!😭😭😭 Okay, back to the topic! What is Japan temple stay? Instead of staying…