Inner Peace and Fell it
Ha, back again, on a hot sweaty day, surprise surprise. My recent travels have taken me all the way across Seoul and I've gotten to meet some great people. Also I've also been able to build some leg muscle because I'm walking 10 miles a day sometimes. Whew.
BUDDHIST TEMPLES
10/10 would go again. And I will. This place was breathtaking and beautiful, I could spend a whole day just sitting there. The buddha statue was huge, as tall as well, shockingly tall, like uh.. a large house. Ya, sounds about right. And there were hundreds of lanterns hung in different colors with ribbons that would flit around in the wind making a beautiful whispery sound throughout the entire temple. It was quite and peaceful, if you ever go to Korea you have to check out some of the temples here.
HANBOK
A Hanbok is a traditional Korean dress style dating wayyyy back and is still used today for Korean marriages. Tourists love to try these on and can rent them for a couple hours almost anywhere but especially in Insadong. One of my American friends rented a more traditional outfit and wore it around Insadong attracting lots of pictures and stares as he is a very large black man wearing Korean garb, lol.
KOREAN T SHIRTS
One of the things I've most been looking forward to in Korea has been the graphic tees with english sayings on them. They are famously known to have phrases that make no real sense in English, but Koreans love to wear them. I found a great one while shopping around Meongdong.
SEOUL FOREST
Seoul forest is not so much a forest as it is a park. They have music festivals, art, playgrounds, and work out machines(it actually is very common to find work out machines on top of hikes or in parks, older koreans like to go on them idk). What I found hilarious was the "deer corral" literally an enclosed space full of deer! You see deer a lot in the north west, but here it's considered a cool rarity. And it was pretty cool, I've never seen grown spotted deer before!
BLOOPERS
My oh my have I had a lot of bloopers the past few days
BUDDHIST TEMPLES
10/10 would go again. And I will. This place was breathtaking and beautiful, I could spend a whole day just sitting there. The buddha statue was huge, as tall as well, shockingly tall, like uh.. a large house. Ya, sounds about right. And there were hundreds of lanterns hung in different colors with ribbons that would flit around in the wind making a beautiful whispery sound throughout the entire temple. It was quite and peaceful, if you ever go to Korea you have to check out some of the temples here.
A Hanbok is a traditional Korean dress style dating wayyyy back and is still used today for Korean marriages. Tourists love to try these on and can rent them for a couple hours almost anywhere but especially in Insadong. One of my American friends rented a more traditional outfit and wore it around Insadong attracting lots of pictures and stares as he is a very large black man wearing Korean garb, lol.
One of the things I've most been looking forward to in Korea has been the graphic tees with english sayings on them. They are famously known to have phrases that make no real sense in English, but Koreans love to wear them. I found a great one while shopping around Meongdong.
Seoul forest is not so much a forest as it is a park. They have music festivals, art, playgrounds, and work out machines(it actually is very common to find work out machines on top of hikes or in parks, older koreans like to go on them idk). What I found hilarious was the "deer corral" literally an enclosed space full of deer! You see deer a lot in the north west, but here it's considered a cool rarity. And it was pretty cool, I've never seen grown spotted deer before!
BLOOPERS
My oh my have I had a lot of bloopers the past few days
- Korean clubs are like American clubs, they play American trap music and there's lots of dancing. Except there are way more Koreans obviously. The dancing is less grinding like in the states and more just actual dancing. It's a fun time, but as a western looking foreigner you will get a lot of attention. But hey, Koreans know how to dance.
- Walk of shame. Yes I did a walk of shame in my clubbing attire the morning after around 6 am walking back from a friends place and received quite a few stares and up downs on the subway home. I was wearing an outfit I may have worn on a regular day back in the states but here regardless of the fact that I was wearing a sleeveless turtle neck it was a little much.
- Cat Cafe! I will make sure to take pictures next time, but a friend and I went to a cat cafe the other day and got to play with adorable cats. They even had the kind with the really short little legs!
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