My bag fell in fish
12 April 2023
Gyeongju to Busan on the KTX
For the next 7 nights I will be in Busan. My third visit here. I am staying in the same hotel as last time. Getting here was a bus, a bullet trai....
Final tomb opportunity
11 April 2023
Gyeongju tombs and tourist area
Tomorrow I am going to Busan. Yes, yes.. on the train. I have not seen that movie and I will not watch it. If you tell anyone you are going to Bus....
Historic Buddha has lost his head
11 April 2023
Gyeongju Namsan mountain
Today I went to the Gyeongju Namsan mountain. Everywhere has a Namsan mountain so I have to be specific. As mentioned I was not sure if this would....
Designated tourist area
10 April 2023
Northeast Gyeongju
Tonight I headed in the exact opposite direction to where I have been going on previous nights. The map showed that this direction has a 'designat....
Historic lake roller coaster
10 April 2023
Wolseong fortress and Bomunho Lake
My goal today - squeeze as many of the sites of Gyeongju into a single day while using public buses. I think I did ok. First up was the observato....
Modern historic funfair
9 April 2023
Gyeongju Hwangnidan street
So it turns out there is an entire tourist funfair historic re-creation of the Silla period convenience stores just a few hundred metres over from....
To the grotto and beyond
9 April 2023
Bulkguksa Seokguram and Tohamsan
Today was the shortest hike, well in time anyway. Just over 2 hours in total, but still about 10km / 20k steps. You see it was a great quality pat....
Steak night
8 April 2023
Gyeongju shopping area
Tonight's outing was short, local and filled with cubes of steak. Then my computer broke. After some stern words with it and a few unexpected blue....
So ancient, so grey
8 April 2023
Daegu to Gyeongju on the KTX
Now I am in Gyeongju. I have not been here before. Apparently it was the ancient capital of the ancient Silla kingdom. This means it is featured o....
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