Daegu & Suseong Land

Daegu Metropolitan City is the 4th largest city in South Korea with almost 2.5 million people living in it. We were staying there for one night, along with the Hashin Tigers, a well known South Korean baseball team. It was a little disappointing to discover autograph hunters congregated outside the business weren't wanting our's :(

The morning jaunt on this occasion consisted of just myself and David. Jeppe had decided on a lie-in. I hadn't really researched where to go whilst in Daegu putting it down as another built up city but the hotel map had indicated an amusement park a short walk away, which we decided to check out.

A weird sculpture that we passed on the way down. (The majority of pics were taken on the way back as the light was better, the downside to going out at silly-o-clock.

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight.

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's morning.

Mince and mashed potatoes, shepherd's pie.

At the end of the main road that our hotel was on was a small waterfall, which looked really cool. Under the tree and not really visible in this shot was an old dude, doing his Tai Chi.

A couple of groups of elders were really going for it in this workout. It ranged from the usual slow stuff to DDR level 7 tunes where they were really going for it! Their fitness rate made me feel very lazy and whilst I thought it would be cool to join in (and they wouldn't have minded) I wouldn't have kept up and been the subject of ridicule.

This is Suseong Lake, a large man made lake in the South of Daegu and the magnet for those wanting their morning constitutional.

A gaggle of guard-geese patrol the lake from foreigners. Fortunately for me they must have had me down as a local as foreigners wouldn't be out so early in the day...would they?

Fans for blowing sand off your shoes. I'd not seen that before. In the background people play badminton...at 6am.

To the West of the Lake we could see this plane peeking out above the trees, which is a little odd as there is no way it could have flown here.

The same is true of Thunderbird 1, which appeared to have touch down close by.

At the back corner of the park we came across a powered coaster, which was quite a nice surprise as there was no record of it being here. When I got back home a little research had shown that the park historically had had a mouse coaster. The park was pretty open to the public even considering the time of day and we were able to walk amongst the rides.

The rest of the park was full of rides of varying quality but clearly all aimed at a younger audience.

The haunted attraction looked better than most of the attractions but it was locked so can't say if the inside is as good as outside.

A punching game for girls. Shouldn't it be a slap game?

A rather delapidated ticket booth.

Thunderbird 1 turned out to be a spin ride, still looks cool though.

The aeroplane turned out to be a restaurant but I don't know if they only serve flight-size meals.

Another sculpture on the way back. Telescope or small spliff.

More staircases to nowhere...

Even bullying looks cute!

Acieeeeeeeeeed!!!

Just where is that girl's hand going?

A bizarre version of hopscotch perhaps?

No idea what Mulmangi is but their logo is cute.

Back at the hotel but notice that there's no fourth floor. That be bad luck see!

The sound of 4 in Cantonese is similar to the sound for word "death". If we abided by the same rule in the UK would we have no hard-of-hearing people.

So, it was a simple jaunt but a worthwhile one. Any time you come across a new coaster that nobody has catalogued on rcdb is always a bonus on a trip. This had been the third time I'd done this, having done it previously in Moscow and Guadalajara.