First-person travel notes, city stories, photos, and videos from the Travel Map archive.
#Busan A collection of how Koreans approach road markings and sidewalk design. And this isn't even the capital, just a major regional city! There are already dividers for cars, signs for the blind, bike lanes, and green barriers along the sidewalks. While…
Damn it, hahaha! What did the owner of my Airbnb want to say with this?
#Busan The Korean Chinatown and... Oh my God, what is this even?? I think I've ended up in the local Brighton Beach!
#Busan I ended up in an interesting area. It seems to be the city center, but the vibe is more like a Thai resort street.
I went to #Busan for 5 days. I debated for a long time whether it was worth spending so much time in Busan, but I still decided that in the second-most populous city of Korea, I'd find something to do. And overall, I didn't regret it - I should have even…
#Seoul The heat still has a detrimental effect on some people Well, it's a free country, isn't it?
Koreans, why are you doing this to me? What the hell is this corn tea... This crap tastes like salty popcorn!
#Seoul -> #Busan Yeah, the express train to Busan is definitely not a Shinkansen. Judging by the vibe, it's more like our Sapsan. At least it's going fast - you can travel across the entire 400-kilometer-long country in 2.5 hours. I wanted to watch "Train…
#Seoul Here's a list of good places to visit if you end up in Seoul: Ossuloc Tea House - a chain of tea houses in Korea, specializing in green Korean leaf tea and matcha. The design is modern with touches of traditional elements. For fans of Chinese tea,…
#Seoul The Revival of Korean Architecture Near the Seoul City Hall, there is a small free museum that showcases projects aimed at improving the city. In addition to a huge map of Seoul and standard urban themes, the museum also explores the process of…
#Seoul On our hike in Bukhansan, just half an hour uphill, we found a real gem among Korean Buddhist temples - Geumseonsa Temple. This is a temple complex on a mountain with residences for monks. Anyone can stay here - there's a promotional stand right at…
#Seoul On the weekend, we went to Bukhansan National Park. This is the second time I've hiked here, and it's probably the most interesting mountainous area within easy reach of Seoul. Since the temperature was over 30 degrees, we decided not to push…
#Seoul In Korea today, it's another anti-authoritarian protest. Two small parties organized the protest, demanding the president's resignation, telling Japan and the US to "go fuck themselves", and probably something else that I don't understand in Korean)…
Bitches, where did you send my passport, why?
#Seoul Me and my friends, when we downed three cans of beer each I didn't photoshop these pictures, they're just such crappy sculptures.
Damn it, Google, what kind of trolling is this?
#Seoul Apparently, a typical day in Korea🤣
And all for just 11,000 won (660 rubles)!
I've visited most of the normal Japanese restaurants in Moscow, and nowhere, nowhere could they make a proper Japanese tonkotsu ramen. And then I come to Seoul, and right at the airport, a fast-food restaurant makes ramen that's better than the most…
I'm finally no longer constrained by any location obligations related to visa applications. So tomorrow, my friend and I are flying to... No, not Canada! To Hong Kong 🇭🇰, and then to Korea 🇰🇷. If I have time, I'll pop into a couple of other cities too.…
We've given out our personal information somewhere.
To continue. In essence, the university didn't give me anything. Yes, I made a few friends, but in general, most of my acquaintances now are not from the university. Everything I know about work, I either learned myself or before university, or directly…
A short series of reflection posts. Yesterday, I actually graduated from university (with a bachelor's degree), defending my thesis. I didn't feel any particular emotions, probably just relief that I wouldn't have to spend any more time on it or stress…
#Moscow Something unusual in Moscow On the outskirts of the city, in the Bitsevsky Forest Park, on a hill, you can find a neopagan temple. It was built in the early 2000s, and unfortunately, only a small part of it remains now - an altar in the form of a…
A long review post about Casablanca is above ⬆️ A hypnotic picture from the mosque to attract attention
#Casablanca #Review Summing up about Casablanca / Morocco. Is it worth visiting and what to look for there? For me, this trip was just a "check off the list" kind of thing to visit Africa, and I probably wouldn't have gone solo. But since I was invited and…
#Casablanca Interactive category These things are located on streets all over the city. Once, I saw a man dragging one of them. But I still don't understand what they're for. I suggest you guess in the comments, or maybe just tell me what kind of creature…
#Casablanca, problems with cats, and the indifference of local residents There are a lot of stray cats in Casablanca. At first, it doesn't seem like such a big problem, but then you quickly realize that they're not being looked after at all. Many of them…
#Rabat A citadel on the coast of Africa, the Kasbah of Oudayas is an ancient 12th-century fortress listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is now divided into three parts - a coastal viewing platform above a beach surrounded by breakwaters, an old…
#Rabat What to do in Rabat if you've also come here for just one day? First, head to the coastal fortress through the old town and market. There are even more tourists here (both locals and foreigners), so the atmosphere is much more pleasant than in the…
#Rabat On one of our weekends in Morocco, we managed to travel from Casablanca to the capital, Rabat. There's a high-speed train running along the coast, and in just an hour's ride and for a symbolic 4$ you can get from Casablanca to Rabat, and in two hours…
#Casablanca There are still beautiful places here. In cities where there's nothing but sand everywhere, greenery is particularly valued.
#Casablanca A Chinese restaurant in a private house.
#Casablanca The slums and narrow streets of the old city (Old Medina). A rather isolated part of Casablanca, which you won't stumble into by chance - the city is surrounded by old fortress walls and there are only a few entrances to it. For the most part,…
#Casablanca Rare photos of Casablanca at night (more precisely around 9-10 PM) Why rare? Because it's fucking stupid to go out here after sunset if you still have any instinct for self-preservation left. On the main streets and in the city center, it's…
#Casablanca Of course, there are sidewalks in Morocco, unlike in Southeast Asia, but their quality is a whole other story. Apparently, they're managed by the adjacent building (no building - no sidewalk😂), and they can be made from any available materials,…
#Casablanca / #Rabat Another feature of the city is the abundance of full-size graffiti on buildings. Some are official, others are not. But both are very beautiful! Even a simple white-yellow panel takes on an urban meaning with them!)
#Casablanca Funny stories with taxis in Casablanca There are two taxi booking services in the city - InDrive and Careem (a subsidiary of Uber). We used Careem, as it's the only one that accepts card payments (even though it costs twice as much). Everything…
#Casablanca Another mess at the local store. But there's no alcohol - just carbonated apple juice😂
#Casablanca In Morocco, a 50 dirham coin is written as 1/2 dirham 🤓
#Casablanca A friend's phone was stolen on the street in the city center. A biker just drove by and snatched it from her hands. And then he even tried to gain access by sending a fake website to her contacts, asking them to enter their iPhone password🤣 And…
#Casablanca On the coast, not far from the old city, stands the Hassan II Mosque, which broadcasts hypnotic prayer chants throughout the surrounding area.
Let's spice up the archived posts about Japan with live content - the channel's author spent a week in Morocco🇲🇦, specifically in the city of #Casablanca. Although the country is officially located in Africa, there's not much of an African vibe here. The…
Three years later, the ECHR's decision on the administrative case was issued on February 2, 2021. Russia has indeed not been a member of the Council of Europe for two years, and the Ministry of Justice isn't paying at all, but formally, the amount is still…
#Kyoto I hit the jackpot with my accommodation in Kyoto, as I only paid $65 per night for a modest room, and ended up right opposite Inari Station, a ten-minute ride from the iconic Gion district and within walking distance of one of Japan's most famous…
#Kyoto Despite the fact that my month-long trip to Japan took me from Fukuoka to Tokyo to Kyoto to Osaka and back to Tokyo, I decided to save my posts about Kyoto for last. This place is very different from all the others I've shown here so far.…
It's even funny that even after making smart toilets with heated seats and bidets, and installing them in 80% of all homes, the Japanese still call such toilets "Western-Style" in contrast to the floor-mounted "Japanese-Style" ones.
What surprised me in Japan was that some trains have carriages just for women. I used to think that this was only done in Muslim countries. But it's not the case. However, the problem of harassment towards women also exists in Korea, but they try to…
Found in #Yokohama Airbnb 50$/day - not expensive, separate sleeping space, 2 minutes walk to the subway. Who's ready to check in?) And if we're being a bit more serious, this is how the few homeless people in Japan live in one of the underground crossings.…
#Osaka #Review About the city as a whole I think I've shown all the most interesting things I found in Osaka during my modest 8-day stay in this city. I've heard polar opinions about it - some people mostly skip it, coming for just 1-2 days and dedicating…