Gyeongju

Before leaving Gyeongju I decided to take a morning stroll around the area.

Here's a view from the hotel room overlooking Gyeongju Lake. The plan was to walk over to the Hilton, which is the hotel over on the left. In researching the area I'd found a sculpture garden in its grounds and thought it might be worth heading to.


The hotels all line the East bank leaving the view to the West untouched...well with the exception of the theme park.

The same wheel we passed the night before.

This is our hotel. Hotel Concorde, called so because it was built in a joint-collaboration between France and England. Or was that the plane? It's a nice hotel actually.

Not sure what this tree is. Part way between a normal tree and a bonsai.

The remains of last night's rain still hanging around on the plants. (Just me playing with the field of vision again)

A small van advertising some very big handguns. Check out their website to see what I mean.

Like a circle in a spiral. Like a wheel upon a wheel. Never ending or beginning on a never ending reel. Now why am I thinking of windmills?

A very wide exhibition centre. Too wide even for my wide angled lense...

Cute chicken!

The hotels all have nice hotel grounds, perfect for the morning constitutional.

Just playing with the camera again.

The sculpture garden. Most of the pieces were a bit too clever for my liking, where are the ceramics when you need them?

Making my way back to the hotel now and passing the baby duck boats. How do I know they're the babies? Because you can see big momma duck in the background, that's how!

Random building done in a modern yet traditional style.

The original plans for today were to go back to Gyenogju World Park before heading out to the ferry but as we'd nailed that park in the afternoon previously a little replanning took place and we were able to squeeze in another park that wasn't in the original plans; Tongdo Fantasia.