Busan

Busan is a city born of a beautiful struggle between water and land: it stretches along an endless coastline where futuristic glass-and-steel skyscrapers climb straight out of the sand, while dramatic cliffs cloaked in dense pine forest plunge into the ocean waves. In Busan you cannot escape the sound of water — it is everywhere: echoing beneath vast suspension bridges lit up at night, rising from the dense, humming fish markets where time has stood still, and breaking gently in front of ancient Buddhist temples perched on the edge of the abyss above the waterline. Your holiday in Busan is a constant play between the rhythmic social buzz and the quiet refuge of nature. On one side you can choose the cosmopolitan, mesmerising version of the sea: waking in the glittering Haeundae district, in a tall glass tower overlooking a long strip of golden sand, opening the morning to the sun rising over the ocean, taking a relaxed walk beside luxury yachts, and ending the day at a modern Korean gourmet restaurant or a designed cocktail bar, with the dynamic, illuminated skyline of one of the world’s most advanced cities stretched out beneath you. On the other side you can withdraw into the city’s more authentic, rugged and ancient aesthetic: waking in a hidden boutique hotel cut into the hillsides, a short walk from the colourful lanes of Gamcheon Culture Village — a stunning artists’ quarter of pastel-painted houses climbing the mountainside like coloured steps, where the morning quiet is broken only by the cries of gulls and the warm sea wind, and the experience is intimate, artistic and full of deep local character. At SherryStay we are drawn to Busan’s powerful physical contrasts: we have sifted out the grey, industrial choices of the port city and picked only the places to stay that offer the highest service standard, in the exact locations that let you experience the magic of the sea and the mountain — at precisely your own pace.

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