From Busan: October 2009

Yesterday I traveled to Haeundae to visit Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, I was hoping to go straight to the temple to visit but it was such a nice day I decided to take a detour and visit Haeundae Beach area. This a was a very beautiful beach, There is a beach near my house but you can see merchant ships in the water and isn't nearly as long as Haeundae.

I was also able to visit the temple but it was later in the day so I wasn't able to get as many pictures as I would hope, and I will make another post for that.

Some kind of boat thing was going on.

A few pictures of the Beach.

Some Sculptures by the beach.

An open market in Haeundae.

A neat looking spider I wish I could have gotten a better picture.

Aside from the spider I saw several Hummingbird Moths, I tried to get pictures of. Unfortunately they moved to erratically so instead of pictures of the moth's I had pictures of a bush with a brown blur in the center.

Today I picked up my camera from the repair shop in Nampo-dong before work. It didn't take as long as I thought it would so I had some time before work. I had a little bit of time to go the park near and take some pictures. Yongdusan park, this is a pretty nice park on top of a pretty big hill, it might be a small mountain, I don't know. There is a tower at the park that I haven't gone up in yet. I am waiting for a clear day to go up it since it cost around 5 dollars. There is also a small modern art exhibit and a model ship exhibit. The modern art exhibit was free and it was a photography exhibit. The model ship exhibit cost money so I didn't go in. On my way down from the park there was some creepy old guy walking down the stairs and grabbing girls hands who work going up the escalators (escalators mostly only go up in Busan, there are exceptions).

If I had my camera fixed earlier I would have been able to take pictures when I was around this area Saturday. They were putting on a play in Yongdusan park with traditional drums and an annoying sounding horn. There were quite a bit of people watching the free play. There was an older man next to me who was dancing to the drums and horn. After doing it for a while I noticed he was doing the same actions as the actors.

The pictures below are of Yongdusan Park, Nampo-dong, and the underground shopping area connecting two subway stations. For the past month I have been visiting this area every Saturday and I don't think I've seen it all but it's a nice are with lots of restaurants a couple movie theaters and it is a good place to walk.