Before coming to Busan I had done some basic research about the places to visit in Busan. We had found that there are some city tours available. These tours were of 2 different types: looped and themed. The ticket for either was 10,000 won (approx. 10$). The difference between the 2 is that in the looped tour, there are buses that go around Busan in a circular fashion, and you can buy the ticket once (from the driver), and get in and down at any of the places (tourist spots) that the bus stops at. There is 1 bus every 30 mins (between 9.30am and 5pm starting from Busan station), so you can practically go to place A -> visit it for as long as you wish -> hop into the next bus and go to place B -> and so on. This mode of travel is extremely convenient and cheap; especially if you like traveling on your own and don't need a guide (have done some basic homework of what places interest you and you want to visit). There are 2 different routes of the looped tours, called the "Haeundae" and "Taejongdae" loops, and the same ticket works on both.

The 2nd type of city tour buses are the "themed" tours: "History and Culture", "Haedong YeongGung temple", "Eulsukdo Eco" and "Night view". These tours are about 3hrs 40 mins each, and the buses leave twice a day; except for the "Night view" which is about 2.5hrs long, and runs only once in the evening. One good thing about themed Busan city tours is that you can call up their online help-desk (+82-51-464-9898) and do a reservation but actually purchase the ticket from the driver (at the start of the tour). The bad thing is that the help-desk (in my experience) is open only for about 2 hours between 9-11am in the morning; and some of the tours get full about 10 days in advance.

Anyways, we called up the help-desk in the morning, and were able to reserve 2 seats for the "Haedong YeongGung temple" tour. Since we reached a bit before the tour start time, I clicked a few photos in the Busan station area

YeongGung-sa (sa means temple) was undoubtedly the best place that I visited in Busan. The temple is located on a cliff and the view is extremely serene and beautiful. It is the place that receives the 1st sun light in Korea.