2 June 2022
Getting reacquainted 2
Exploring the Nampo area of Busan
I previously got reacquainted with Daegu. On the same trip in 2015 when I went to Daegu I also went to Busan, so now it is time to get reacquainted with Busan - although there is a difference. Daegu is a smaller place, and I stayed in roughly the same location both times. Busan is a much bigger place and I am staying in a different part of town, a much more vibrant part of town. When last I was here I visited this part of town only at night, when I could not see up the hills, and the hills are what is interesting. The view is excellent. The streets are staircases, complete with street signs.
After exploring side of the hill world and the park above it, I descended back into the shopping area and discovered the biggest market I have seen yet in Korea. It was a mix of everything, dead, alive, clothing, above ground, under ground, neon etc.
Finally, it was time to find my dinner, lots of choices, but when I spotted one of my favourites my decision was made.
My hotel is right over the road from here. I was familiar with this gentrified street from my last visit.
I immediately headed to the hills and up stair cases. A sky road of sorts bends around a corner on stilts. They have installed these rollers to stop cars from scraping along the railing.
This is a street. There are lots of similar stair cases going up the hill.
Excellent clear view.
In the park above it all is this monument. Looks painful.
View from the park is not as impressive as lower down where it is steeper and you can see onto the roofs of houses.
I plan to go up the hill over the other side there and look back this way.
There is also a lift to take you back down if you cant handle stairs, but it does not go all the way. Maybe there are more lifts.
Now that I am back down, time for a view back up the hill from the market street.
Inside the markets was a big grid of covered streets. The stalls here are all selling boxes of cigarettes and children's toys.
Very colourful area.
Lots of beer halls.
For my dinner, Sapporo soup curry. The place was quite rustic, they had a giant old radio and every table and chair was different. The menu, only in Korean, went into great detail about how authentic the soup curry is, although google lens translate was occasionally getting weird, one type of vegetable was translated as Whoopi, as in Goldberg. Anyway, I ordered the 18 kinds of vegetable soup curry maximum spicy, received the warning after I pointed at max spicy from the concerned waiter, and was surprised it came with rice. I had this in Sapporo without rice a couple of times.
If they are giving rice, then I will eat it, but I am not going to daintily spoon out each piece onto the rice. My choices were, add the rice to the curry (wiser choice), construct a heat proof shield out of paper serviettes and empty the curry onto the rice (what I did). Amazingly I did not get burnt or spill it everywhere. 2 pics of dinner, that's rare! Also, it was delicious.