Busan in 3 days: South Korea's only port city, the last city standing in the Korean War, where a refugee hillside became the most colorful neighbourhood in Korea and the sea-cliff temple is the most dramatic in all of East Asia.
The largest seafood market in Korea: the best time is 6–8am when the fishermen are unloading directly from the boats docked on the waterfront.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Santorini of Korea: Korean War refugee houses transformed into an art village with the Little Prince at the top. The alleys are too narrow for two people to pass.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe outdoor square of Asia's most important film festival, lined with food carts: the Busan fish cake in clear broth on a stick is the most iconic street food in the city.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide108 stone steps descend from the Dragon Gate to the main hall directly above the crashing waves. Most Buddhist temples in Korea are in forests — this one faces the sunrise over the sea.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide1.5km of pale sand: oysters eaten from the shell with lime at the covered tent market behind the beach. The sky capsule railway on the coastal cliff gives the aerial view.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide7.4km suspension bridge illuminated with programmable LED sequences from the beach bars: grilled oysters and sea urchin on rice as the bridge lights up at dusk.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe milky white broth with sliced pork, rice and saeujeot shrimp paste: seasoned to taste at the table. The cheapest and most nourishing meal a refugee could make in 1950.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Silla dynasty stone lanterns (National Treasure No. 11) and the three ceremonial gates: the finest active Buddhist temple in the Busan region, unchanged in its mountain forest for 13 centuries.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe southernmost headland of Busan: the cliff-side restaurant serves raw sea urchin directly above the crashing sea, and the oldest lighthouse in Korea is at the top.
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