Bukhan National Park

This is a National Park that I took a hike in last week. It is just north of Seoul, you can actually see the entire city from this vantage point. That is only if there is a slight haze that day, since it is almost never clear enough to get any kind of view. The hike that I took was about 14 km long. But this is the first time that I've been on a Korean trail that actually had well marked trails.







This is just another view of the mountains to the north of where I was at the time.












This is a common sight in all of the Subway Stations around Seoul. Each station has about 3 or 4 of these lockers. Each little brown bag actually holds a gas mask for just in case the city is attacked with a chemical or biological weapon. I think that they just put them there to make people think that they are trying to protect the people, since there is no way that they will ever have enough masks for the thousands of people that are at the station at any given time.

Changgyeonggung & Changdeokgung

This is an ancient depository of scrolls and tablets that mainly held the genealogical records of the royal families. Most of the building was rebuilt after the Japanese occupation that destroyed almost all Korean cultural landmarks.











This is just a flower that was in a green house on the palace grounds. It's the oldest green house in Korea, built back in the 1890's.











This is the main Palace in the Changdeokgung complex. When you look inside it's actually kinda plain.









This is a secondary palace in the complex but I think that it is the best looking as far as location is concerned. This is actually a library now.

Mud Festival

Here's our group that went on the trip to the mud festival. We got about 20 of our coworkers together and rented a bus and took the 2 hour drive down to the Daechon beach.







Here I am all painted up with Greg.





















This is the spot where we all get painted up as well as do our grooming. All the Koreans were either scared or enamored with our 6'6" black guy. Most of them screamed in horror and ran when he tried to speak Korean to them.







This is a great game of tag in a pool of mud.