Our first night in Seoul, we stayed in our hotel area which turned out to be full of markets. We walked through a huge market that had everything from vegetables, to squid and other varied sea creatures, to football-sized cooked cow hearts, to boxes of nuts and bolts, to gloves and coats and hats, to boxes full of rubberbands. These markets have just about everything in them! (Although really, boxes of rubberbands?!)
Here are two pictures of James and I, standing by the river down the street from our hotel in the heart of the market district where we are staying.
Thursday morning, we were both awake by 5am (jet lag killed us!) so we started the day early and decided to head to the Korean War Memorial and Museum. After figuring out the crazy subway station (click here), we spent the morning there, checking out Korean War memorabilia and aircraft/weapons from different times throughout Korean military history. This was a really cool museum! Below is a drum which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the war. This was right in the main lobby of the museum.
Finally, here I am putting on my "I'm scary, I'm going to kill you" face and posing with a pretty cool weapon in the outdoor area of the museum.
After the War Memorial/Museum, we spent the afternoon in the National Museum of Korea. This was a more traditional museum, full of art work, pottery, jewelry, weapons, etc, some dating back to as early as 800AD. We also had some delicious Udon Noodle Soup here for lunch :)
That is about it for today, we are doing the USO DMZ tour tomorrow so I will try to post pretty soon thereafter. Hopefully I can get a good picture or two of some North Korean soldiers while we are there!
WOW~! looks awesome!
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