Monday, September 11, 2006

The weather report reccomends wearing clothes today as it might get a little chilly :P

In other news, I climbed Gwanak mountain near Seoul yesterday. It stands about 600m tall and they have a wireless communications centre at the summit. I also went past the Buddhist temple there too. I think there might have been a festival there that day because there were so many people.

Here's some pics of the view from the mountain.








This is the tower I was climbing towards. It is visible from my room in the city.



The summit of the mountain. Don't mind the random people there. It was a Sunday and mountainclimbing seems to be very popular in Seoul. My guide (and roommate) said that the professional climbers, the ones with two skiing sticks, can reach the top in about 30 minutes. It took us about an hour I think.



This is the Buddhist monastery located near the top of the mountain. There are several smaller temples around as well.





And apparently this is a really really small bell. The bells at the larger monasteries, I was told, are at least 4 times as big as this one.



On the other side of the mountain, where we got off the bus, is a park which is right next to Seoul National University with a really cool lake/fountain thing.





And finally, the view from my window.



1 Comments:

Blogger Vakalyla said...

Those photos are beautiful!Even the ones with the screen over your windows! I'm so jealous! I'd love to be teaching English some where around the world at the moment. ^_^
Maybe you should mail us some kimichi!

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