David Stanley has authored numerous travel guidebooks for Lonely Planet and Moon Handbooks. He has seen every country in the world and visited all but one.
These drum-beating dancers are dressed in brightly coloured hanbok, the Korean traditional costume. They were seen aboard a cruise ship in Busan, South Korea.
A number of martial arts films including "Kundo : Age of the Rampant" and "The King: Eternal Monarch" were filmed at Ahopsan Forest in Busan. The two pillars here were used to create the illusion of stepping back and forth between alternative realities.
A trail leads through the bamboo grove at Ahopsan or Nine Mountain Forest in Busan, South Korea. The Nampyeong Moon clan has tended the forest for almost 400 years.
The adults-only Ananti at Busan Cove Hotel on the coast east of Busan, South Korea, is part of the Hilton chain. The Osiria Coastal Walk passes its door.