7 April 2024
A clear view
Daegu Spark Land
My last night in Daegu so I set out on a looping walk, bathing in the clear almost pollution free skies.
I decided my goal was to find spots to appreciate the lack of pollution. First stop was the giant church. I still cannot figure out if it is old or new.
Then it was time to head to Spark Land, site of the rooftop ferris wheel. I took some great photos from there on my last visit, and although tonight's were probably not as good, they were still pretty great.
Then it was time to hunt for a small dinner, which ended up being food for a poor person, and too large. Oh well.
That was all a matter of fact update. Tomorrow I go to Gyeongju. I have not been there before. Getting there involves a short bullet train ride then a mystery bus.
There are a couple of large department stores a bit away from the main shopping area, The Hyundai as pictured here, but also the equally as large, and not pictured here Donga. You can find pictures of Donga if you go revisit my last visit to here.
The back of the giant church is a medical history museum. It was closed though.
First view of the journey, the view from the church car park. Not bad.
Might as well throw in a photo of the church. Like I said above, I cannot tell if it is old or new. There are really old photos of something in this spot that looks similar, but maybe not as large. The distortion on that car is quite severe in this shot!
Back in the main area and I became aware of all the multi level games arcades. These do not exist outside of Asia, that is when I remembered the ferris wheel on the roof. The best view of all.
Behold, there it is. With the sunset!
That is Apsan, from earlier today. So clear.
So clear it was worthy of another photo.
My hunt for dinner had me considering the bird cage restaurant, but they did not offer prices on their menu, so that is a no from me.
Instead I had the cheapest meal of the trip so far. About $5 for a huge bowl of huge mandoo dumplings. Those white slices of rubber looking things, I do not know if they are vegetable or not! Quite chewy. The dumplings kind of look like tripe here, but that is just the pattern on the bottom of them from the cloth in the steamer. They were actually just regular pork / mystery meat dumplings.
And for my final picture, a B street. One block over from the shiny neon streets you get slightly less garish streets. Still lots to see along here though.