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Cheongdo Temple
05/02/06

Carnegie Hall?
05/10/06

Movie Star!
05/11/06

To North Korea!05/13/06
       

Seoraksan
05/14/06

Heading Home
05/15/06
   

Seoraksan
May 14, 2006

Today we visited the absolutely beautiful Seoraksan National Park.

Seoraksan was an awesome place to visit.  The scenery is unmatched I'd say in the majority of the world.  The luscious greens of the trees combined with the brown and white peaks of the mountain tops really paint a sight to see.  The GIANT 108 ton Buddha was very impressive as well.  If you look close towards the bottom of the 3rd picture, you'll see a man that barely reaches the top of it's pedestal.  We rode a cable car to the top of the mountain overlook where the views were breathtaking.

That night we went to the beach and a restaurant where we enjoyed fresh seafood.  When I say fresh I mean the sushi was still moving!  In one picture, you'll see the lady actually picking the live fish from a tank.  Sufficeth to say, I didn't eat any of the moving fish.  I like sushi, but not when it's still alive!

After dinner, we went to the beach for a few minutes and after that we went to a beachfront restaurant and had coffee.  It's a normal Korean thing to have dinner in one place and go to another and have coffee.  That's just one of the many interesting differences between America & Korea.

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Two lighthouses before dinner.

What I learned today about Korea:  1)  The giant 108 ton Buddha was built as a symbol of hope for the unification of North & South Korea.