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| Typhoon rainfall pouring off a temple roof. |
A while back the Kangs invited us to travel to the city of Gyeongju with them for a weekend, so of course we said yes. We were really excited to see this very old traditional city full of thousand+ year old temples, tombs, and shrines. Given our luck with things, though, the same weekend Korea decided to break another weather record when a typhoon came, which hasn't happened in the month of June for the past 48 years. Despite the bad weather, we still had a very enjoyable time. After driving only about an hour and a half Saturday morning we arrived in Gyeongju and spent the whole day (literally ~8 hours) at a water park, cleverly named "California Beach". The nice thing about it raining when you are at a water park is that there are no lines. For the most part we stuck around the hot spring, but ventured out to give the rides a whirl, which were super fun. Sunday, while it was pouring cats and dogs and everything in between we set out to see what Gyeongju is famous for: it's incredibly old temples, tombs, and shrines. See all my photos from the weekend here.
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| A hot spring full of Koreans. Notice everyone is wearing a hat or swim cap - a park rule. |
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| Trying to defend herself... |
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| Squirting the kids with water guns in the hot spring. |
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| Walking through a garden for a king. |
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| Amanda and I in front of the "male" temple, which can be found on the back of a 10 won coin. |
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| Wood on the door. |
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| Amanda in front of the "female" temple. |
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| The pouring rain. |
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| Amanda and I hugging a very large and wet tree. |
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| Grass hill tombs of Shilla era Kings |
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| Grass hill tomb of Shilla era Kings |
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| William and Xavier looking at a BIG spider. |
