As I finally finish editing and updating my photos from our summer vacation trip, Andrew and I have planed our last vacation before we come home, to a declining economy with no job or big immediate plan. First I'll cover my photos.
The last two sets I just posted are...
We were scorching hot while walking around Mokpo after our sunburnt camping experience and so we walked over to were the museums were all lined up on the board walk. We made this decision while trying to huddle in a little shady spot on a hill and agreed we couldn't sit in that one spot the rest of the day. So I had picked dinosaurs over boats, sculpture, and something else. It was a great choice and we spent a few hours there and a few hundred pictures between the two of us. PS. the museum claimed they used all the real bones in the museum. But they don't look real, and they let us take pictures of them... sooo?
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| maybe the ones in the plastic boxes are real bones |
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| they used real fish though! |
Next was a train ride to Suncheon
We took a bus ride to the ECO park. There was someone at the tourist place using a computer that actually translated everything into English. Pretty much she just kept saying "follow all the people". We went to the bus stop with all the people, crammed some 100+ people on the city bus, (no one was left behind), followed everyone in the walking line through the grass, up the VERY steep hill, and to the observatory deck overlooking the view below. Coming down we followed the long line back down the hill, now dark, through the mosquito tall grass and waited at least an hour for the next city bus to put at least half of the 200-300 people waiting in line at ~ 9:00 night. We really wished we had a car at this point.
We took a bus ride to the ECO park. There was someone at the tourist place using a computer that actually translated everything into English. Pretty much she just kept saying "follow all the people". We went to the bus stop with all the people, crammed some 100+ people on the city bus, (no one was left behind), followed everyone in the walking line through the grass, up the VERY steep hill, and to the observatory deck overlooking the view below. Coming down we followed the long line back down the hill, now dark, through the mosquito tall grass and waited at least an hour for the next city bus to put at least half of the 200-300 people waiting in line at ~ 9:00 night. We really wished we had a car at this point.
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| How many crabs do you see? |
So what's next you ask?
Well this weekend we are going to go stay in a Buddhist temple. Ya I didn't know we could do that either, but I guess it is pretty common here for the foreigners. Actually Iris, our co-teacher, volunteers once a month for this foreigner activity program. They usually do something that is focused on introducing Korean culture and this month is a "temple stay". We are traveling to Busan, about an 1 1/2 bus ride but lucky for us we got train tickets to make the 2 hour travel less ... well we won't want to throw up, so ... more comfortable :)
We also recently decided to go to Jeju Island right after our contract ends before we fly home. It will be a nice little vacation to end our time in Korea on a relaxing note. More to come on our plans. So far we found airfare round trip for the both of us for about $160. That's SUPER cheap.
Okay. bye
