5 April 2026
The other end of this part
City 7 Mall
Since my hike today wasn't particularly long, tonight I walked the length of this part of Changwon - refer to pics from earlier that explain how there are multiple parts to the city.
This journey took me past stadium land, with a swimming centre, velodrome, baseball stadium, and the tree of life from avatar on top of a hill - very weird looking plastic tree with trees on top of the tree.
After about 5km of very fast progress as there are almost no crossing roads, I arrived at convention centre world, and the cities only mall (a new much bigger one is under construction nearby).
This is the kind of mall that is part indoor, part outdoor, with circular bits connected by curved walkways, which all makes for a confusing mess, there were not many people there on a Sunday night either.
Along the way I got to witness an old lady walking in the bicycle lane, with a broom, who's hobby in later life is to try and whack children with her broom as they ride past her... in the bike lane. Free entertainment, I kept my distance.
This is the big roundabout at the end of the big wide street my hotel is on. It is so big, and so full of nothing but grass, that it makes for the most boring of photographs.
Identical apartment buildings, for as far as the eye can see. This must be the designated residential part of Changwon.
A velodrome, or as the sign says, Changwon Bicycle Cultural Centre.
The bike riding continues outside. Note that is the strange tree of life thing on top of the hill behind the basketball stadium.
The other end of town is convention and exhibition centres. And big western hotels. It was very quiet.
I found Korea's missing tigers!
There is however a mall, not just any mall, the City 7 Mall. I have no idea what the significance of the name is.
It is very strange inside, lots of little narrow laneways shooting off the main indoor/outdoor areas.
It probably needs a full makeover, a new Starfield giant mall is under construction nearby, perhaps this one will close down when that is finished.
My dinner is... yellow. I did not mean to order this. I had to order from a machine with no English, and tried to match the Koran symbols from a picture on the wall. I guess I guessed wrong. What I got was pork cutlet with a cheesey sauce, with random diced frozed vegetables on top. It was actually ok, and cheap too!
To end the evening, I climbed up to the roof. It had a roof garden. It was very dark up there and I am not sure I was supposed to be there.
Tomorrow I will probably go to 2 different places. There will be a lot of studying of bus routes required.