More Korea!

Our last few days have been spent soaking up some culture in Gyeonju, on the east coast north of Busan. It made a nice change to Busan as only 280,000 people live there, so it was small enough to walk around. There was lots to see including tombs that look like grassy hills from the outside, which are Korea's version of pyramids.

Yangdong Folk Village A preserved 500 year old village which is a cultural presevation area . People still live there, in traditional homes mainly farming for a living. There were lots of tourists like us snooping around and having a good look round the few buildings we were allowed in! Some of the Korean tourists were having a good look round the ones you weren't allowed in too.

Ssambap Lots of veggie and meat dishes, the idea is to wrap up a little of a dish, rice and sauce in a lettuce leaf. It would probably be a really healthy meal if we hadn't eaten so much of it!


Clarkie enjoying the soju, the local cheap spirit. It's really strong, cheap and the Koreans love it.


Our 6 1/2 hour bus journey from Gyeongju to Samcheok. We were the only people on the bus for the whole journey and the very nice driver bought us a cup of coffee.


Samcheok - Clarkie mistakenly befriended this very drunk man with a partially shaved t shirt wearing dog in the local park, he was pretty keen for us to take photos of it!