CULTURE
Busan – South korea
From craft breweries to Asia's top film festival, South Korea’s second largest city is fuelling a cultural boom
With K-pop and Korean film making waves in global culture, the country’s creative flair is firmly in the spotlight. Cinema is acommunal experience in Busan, South Korea’s second largest city, which has hosted one of Asia’s most prestigious annual film festivals for nearly three decades. In 2022, the Busan International Film Festival held screenings in 14 neighbourhood venues across this seaport of 3.4 million people.
Before performances, movie lovers can grab a craft beer Busan is celebrated for its artisan brewers or stroll through Citizens Park, a redeveloped US military base. Opened in 2014, the park is a 133-acre retreat in the middle of downtown, planted with more than one million trees and shrubs, comprising 97 species in all. Famed for its mountains and beaches, Busan is also home to the Nakdong River Estuary. South Korea’s longest river runs through the city and shelters the whooper swan and other endangered waterfowl.
ADVENTURE
Choquequirao – Peru
An adventurous trek to the remote sister site of Machu Picchu is becoming more accessible
One of the most isolated Inca sites in the Peruvian Andes, the ruins of Choquequirao are reserved for the hardy few who put in the effort to reach it. Those who make the trek to the sprawling complex in the south of the country can do so only on foot, zigzagging up and down steep paths for 18 miles to reach its 10,000ft elevation, suspended between the high Andes and the jungles below.
This story is from the December 2022 edition of National Geographic Traveller (UK).
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