Amanda and I used one of our 3-day weekend vacations to return to Seoul over April 7-10. Thanks to Amanda's diligent and incessant planning we packed the weekend full of exciting places to visit. Among them were a massage center where we received 1-hour full-body massages, Seonyudo island park, the traditional neighborhood: Bukchon, Insa-dong traditional shopping district, Changdeokgung Palace and secret garden, N Seoul Tower, and Myong-dong shopping district.
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| Here's Amanda sliding through a large steel cylinder that has been turned into a slide on Seonyudo Island. |
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| Seonyudo Island was original a manufacturing / industrial hub in the middle of the river but has since been reclaimed and turned into an ecological sound park that's full of plants and trees. |
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| From the pedestrian bride leading to the island we were able to capture some photos of the sunset Friday night. |
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| This tree is 750 years old and can be found in Changdeokgung Palace. |
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| As we scouted for someone to take this photo for us; we looked for a person that had a larger camera than we did, so we could be assured she would know what she was doing, and didn't have to worry about her stealing our camera. After she handed the camera back to us and showed us the photo, we concluded we made a good choice :) |
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| A small sundial inside the secret garden of Changdeokgung Palace. We could only see the garden as a part of a tour group that was at least 100 people. Thankfully they offered it in English at a couple times, but moving around with a 100-person tour group was a little uncomfortable. |
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| Looking up at N Seoul Tower from it's base before we ascended to the top. It was originally a communications tower but is now used for tourism, with an observatory and restaurant at the top. |
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