Just finishing up Korea today, I've been here for a month! Been to a few interesting places and done a few interesting things. In no particular order except chronological I have been:
To the beautiful mountains in Sokcho and the North Korean border on the east side.
To a volunteer camp in the middle of nowhere, it was supposed to be for 9 days but I left with a couple of english blokes after two days, it wasn't very good! I sort of felt bad for booting but they didn't really need our help, they wanted us to build them a library yet this town was so small (200ppl) and they didn't even have a shop. Plus the villagers were driving around in the sporty new hyundais.
To the Seoul casino, yes predictable but its only open to foreigners and they have Free Drinks! AND Free food! So alls you had to do was bet on black and red and you get free booze and food. The toasted ham and egg sandwiches at 4am were the best ever!
Next was GyeongJu the old Buddhist capital of Korea. I was reading about these amazing tombs and temples, I was fairly disappointed at the tombs as they were just hills but some of the buddha carvings and temples were amazing. Also I found a dog place as per pic where just like lobster you can pick your pooch to poach!
At GyeongJu, I met this lovely Dutch girl and we headed down to Jeju Island which was a heap of fun, waterfalls, waterskiing, swimming and a ride in a real submarine to see the "coral ecology", nothing compared to the GBR! We also stayed in whats called a love motel which is quite a funny concept, you can book them for an hour or two and at reception they give you a toothbrush, key and condom lol. But apart form the sextoy vending machines and general cheesiness they work out to be quite good value with a computer air con for only $40 a nite for the room!
The last few days I've been in Busan where i saw the lovely UN cemetery and Haeundae Beach and tonight I'm heading out to Japan on the overnight ferry.
Regards,
Chris
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