Olympic Park: Sports in the park
The park was used by a few joggers – the hardcore ones that didn’t mind the low temperature. There were also something like an open-air gym to train your muscles.
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Sculptures in the Seoul Olympic Park
There are many things to discover in Olympic Park and among them are the many sculptures scattered around the park area. I didn’t write down any artist names but the amount of sculptures was impressive.
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Mongchon Fortress
Usually, each place of Seoul was destroyed at least twice by various invading forces. So it’s not surprising that there is not much left of Mongchon Fortress. It’s more like an elevated hiking path with some good spots to look at the World Peace Gate.
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Seoul Olympic Museum of Arts
When you have very little time, you tend to choose places where you can do multiple things. Today I went to the Olympic Park, the park around the main site of the 1988 Summer Olympics. I took a different route and arrived at the SOMA (map) first, the Seoul Olympic Museum of Arts.
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LuceVista: Seoul’s Light Festival
A lot of cities have light festivals these days and Seoul is no exception. The LuceVista consists of several light installations in the city and all can be reached by foot.
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Crafts in Insadong & Veggie restaurant
After walking a bit aimlessly around Seoul I felt hungry and I took the subway 3 (the orange one) to Anguk. I love the Insadong area, especially the nice mall Ssamziegil, which has four floors but no stairs.
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Somewhere on the subway
Finding the sights can be difficult – not all of them are signed out. Of course I checked a few tourist websites but when the map at the station doesn’t show anything and going out through the right exit leaves you in the middle of nowhere, it’s quite difficult to find what you are looking for.
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Sales everywhere!
Of course I wanted to get out as soon as possible. Like in Japan, not all banks accept international cards and those that do, don’t seem to advertise this feat much. What I’m still not getting quite used to is the currency (Won).
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Start of a Seoulful week
Today’s my first trip to an Asian country other than Japan. It was also the first time that I took a flight from Narita which is not heading to Europe. First I wanted to travel to Singapore but the ticket was too expensive so I switched my plans to Seoul.
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