Jan Bono’s Blog

I am not making this up! (I took a photo of the sign and you can enlarge it by clicking on it and read if for yourself). “There are about a thousand tombs of aristocrats, eunuchs, and commoners from the Joseon period in Choansan (Mt.). Particularly noteworthy is the...

Although I was starting to get the hang of the subway system in Seoul, third largest in the world (after Tokyo and Moscow), I was grateful for the efforts of Don and Chris to meticulously plot our course whenever Miriam and I went “out and about” without them. Knowing...

Back from Japan, Miriam and I emptied the majority of our suitcases into the laundry room. Then I sorted through all the paper stuff, making three piles: Mine to keep, things Don and Chris might like to peruse in preparation of their own trip to Japan next year, and...

A day of hurry up and wait to travel from Kyoto, Japan back to Seoul, Korea, as our plane did not leave Osaka Airport until 5 pm. After breakfast we went back to the room and I went back through hundreds of photos, deleting the blurry and redundant, and freeing up...

Yesterday, we concluded our marathon walking tour in the Gion District of Kyoto. That is where the geishas go to school to learn how to perform their dances and continue the mystique of this culture. Geishas are traditional Japanese female entertainers who act as...

The second of our scheduled Japanese city tours was in Kyoto, on a hot Sunday afternoon. Unlike our tour in Tokyo, we didn’t ride a bus around town for this one. We arrived by bus at the prearranged area, then hoofed it for four hours to three different shrines, up...