Whilrwind tour of Korea

Wow, it's been six days since I've been able to blog!

I don't have much time...we're leaving our hostel for another since there's no vacancy here for tonight. But here's a quick rundown of what's been going on!

After Mokpo, we drove to Busan. Busan was REALLY cool - a big city by the beach. We got in late, toured the fish market, ate dinner and checked into the hotel. The hotel was VERY modern and swank! Then we had free time for the beach!! Except, it was only for two hours. TWO HOURS!! Oh well. It was a great time, a cool morning with a light breeze, so I had a nice long walk on the beach. Oh yes, our two hours at the beach was from 9 am to 11. Riiight. After the beach, we ate at a great restaurant, then got on the bus for Gyeong-ju, an historical city.

There, we toured these tombs in these big mounds. That night we checked into a less-nice place, an educational center / hotel. The next day we toured Gyeong-ju some more, going to a museum, a temple and another temple.

The next day we got into Seoul! We went to one of the palaces, which was pretty cool. Then the bus dropped us off to spend FOUR HOURS in Itaewon, a shopping district. The best thing we did was went up the Seoul Tower - kind of like the seattle space needle I think. It was up on a hill, and we had an amazing view of Seoul! This city is just too huge. It's crazy.

Anyway, to make a long story short, we're now on our own. I'm with 5 or 6 other people, and we stayed in a hostel last night. We are getting ready to go to another hotel now that is close by. So, we're basically backpacking around Seoul! We left our big bags at the Koreana hotel, the nice hotel our entire group stayed at for two nights here. We're just toting around the essentials now. I'll write more later, gotta run!