The museum tried to fool me again. When I got there, the signs were still up saying CLOSED TODAY. But I suspected this was wrong.
Meanwhile an entire school group stood and pondered the sign in great confusion.
Luckily once I got to the museum it turned out they just hadnt brought the signs in from yesterday.
The museum was heavy on ancient pottery, calligraphy and maps, which doesnt make for good photos, so there arent many. I especially enjoyed the maps.
After the museum I returned to the Seoul Grand Park area to do the walk that I saw on the map, unfortunately, my camera went flat.
This caused great confusion as I had changed batteries in the morning, except I had forgotten to charge the battery (I rotate 3 batteries).
So you get no photos of the nature walk, there were trees, a path, a couple of streams, some butterflies, and some views, you get the idea.
On the way to the subway I spotted the only decent car I have seen in all of Korea. There are a lot of Porsches getting around, but they are all Cayennes or Panameras.
The actual Korean cars are starting to look decent, the latest Kia or Hyundai is far nicer looking than any new Japanese car.
Thats all the car talking I am going to do.
This is the reflection pool outside of the museum, where you can reflect on your horrible reflection.
This is the middle section of the two halves of the museum. Dissapointingly you cant work over that roof section to go between the two halves.
Some sort of monolith, I have learnt that Koreans never really decided on a written language until recently.
They built a house inside the museum. Its not as good as the houses they built inside the Tokyo Edo museum.
The lobby area with a giant totem pole thing.
Various Buddhas.
Golden Samurai.
In the late afternoon I decided to head to Times Square. Every asian city has a shopping mall called times square.
I didnt do any shopping here, just wandered about amazed at the underground connecting tunnels that go forever.
The actual mall is up market and very quiet compared to the underground parts that connect the stations.
On the way back I checked out the food sections in the basements of various department stores just as they were closing, things go for cheap at this time, but I had no way of reheating anything which was unfortunate...so I had a custard filled goldfish.
Tomorrow I am leaving for home, which will take a long time, I get to look at Incheon airport (worlds best airport), and a 3 hour stopover in Tokyo.
In Incheon I have no 'status' so I will have to slum it like a backpacker. Qantas need to lift their game and get a deal with someone here so I can eat free stuff!
I think its possible to go anywhere the subway goes like this, with interconnecting underground shopping malls. The amazing thing is they are all so busy.
Korea had their first F1 grand prix last year, apparently it was the first motor racing event of any kind, and the first circuit in the country
This is a fake plastic car that doesnt do anything other than employ someone to stand near it.
Inside times square. It had a great food court but unfortunately its one where you pay at a central cashier and get a vibrating disc, and there was only Korean writing at the cashier so I couldnt order.
There is a lot of interesting sculptures around it and on the roof, I think this photo came out really well.
The outside of the building isnt particularly impressive, it snakes between existing buildings including a hospital.
What you say?
Allowing people to attach padlocks in the mall food court would be an issue, so instead you can write a sticky note expressing your eternal love....notes will be removed every monday morning.
Plastic representations of Korean food are very authentic, the real thing also looks like its plastic.
I wanted a hot dog, but was able to resist. I am sure they would be horrible.
This is an interactive avenue of stars, you put your hand in someones hand print in the concrete and the display changes to suit. They were all Korean stars but girls were very excited to put their hand where someones hand once was.
My dinner was a salad. It was very fresh and healthy...compared to the hot dog I really wanted.