Sunday, September 03, 2006

KOREA TRIP PART III.

continued from Part II... after the National Folk Museum, we went to look at Gyeongbokgung Palace itself. i better hurry and post this, my computer is being fucked and lagged from all the pictures.... or something.





this is the royal garden.




so many gates in this palace, i can't keep track.


blue shingles, rice-paper doors


all of the flowers and decorum on the roof/walls
are hand-painted. it's pretty amazing
if you see it for yourself, in real life. it's still really vibrant
although its a billion yearsold.










this place is like a maze.


stone stairs


everything's so intricately painted.


my sister, the potions master
(im sure this isnt anything like a cauldron..
it probably has a more profound use)


inside of the main hall of the biggest building,
where the king's throne is




remind you, all of this is within seoul itself, so as soon as you're out
of the palace you're among the city traffic and skyscrapers.




uh. we went to this place pretty much hidden in the city..
it used to be part of the president's residence (OMFG thats a HINK PINK)
but after some corruption and whatnot,
it became open to the public in the 1980s.. and i dunno.


VV


this is the most dense vegetation you'll see in the city


the five-petal rose of sharon is the national flower.
(i had to look that up in the dictionary!)


we were caught in a freaking huge traffic jam. there were many of these
screens and i understand they're there to entertain drivers
during these traffic jams.




the building on the left, which i think was a national bank or something
equally important, had one wall recently decorated with a mosaic
of the korean flag, to mark/celebrate Liberation Day of 1945 (Aug. 15th)






so much neon... and PEOPLE.




endless number of restaurants and kareoke places




we ate eel. it was actually really really good


a typical restaurant. you sit on the floor and not on chairs.




this is one of the TWENTY-THREE bridges across Han River
(which is smack in the middle of Seoul and the whole populated areas).
i guess it's kind of equivalent to the Fraser River of Greater Vancouver.
This is only a picture off a postcard, but you get the idea.



HOLY GOD, what a freaking long post. my computer is dead.
perhaps more pictures to come later, if i can find anything. ciao
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2 comments:

Peter said...

i like eel

9/03/2006 10:22 PM
Raymi Lauren said...

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid214/p42fe120c09187d8fba575b6048060e4b/ed352a6b.jpg gorgeously sunny out.

9/06/2006 5:37 PM

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