Korea Day 6: Best Seoul and Gangnam Style!

It was a beautiful, quiet Sunday morning.

So I made my way to the Bukchon Hanok Village, which is a neighborhood of Seoul with traditional style houses.

I didn't expect much, i was wrong. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukchon_Hanok_Village

Probably because it was Sunday, I was almost the only person on the streets. Also, because the houses are all owned by privates, there's not that many tourists attractions if not for the houses itself and little cute shops on the narrows streets.

The neighborhood is situated right in the center of the historical Seoul, but atmophere it's so quiet, and the stylish houses makes you dreaming of living here...

And  that's a random weird sculpture  right there

And apparently they are building new houses as well...

Too bad I didn't have that much time to spend there, I had to rush to Jongmyo, a shrine cointaning the "souls" of many Korean kings.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jongmyo

It's forbidden to walk on this path, because the souls travel trough it

And here we are. The time has come. I can finally say, I have been to Gangnam!

This is Gangnam style!

Then I moved to another side of town, to the Buddhists temple of Bongeunsa

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongeunsa

Damn Nazi Buddhists...

And that wasmy last day in Seoul. For my last day in Korea, I decided to take a look at the beautiful islands around Incheon...

Korea day 5, Korean folk village

So I left my confy hotel room that morning early, heading to the Korean Folk Village

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Folk_Village

What you see in my hand is a deceiving object. I thought it was gonna be a delicious muffin, but the troll street food vendor forgot to tell me abuot the egg hidden inside.

...and this are two cute puppies outside the store just at the entrance of the village

But what's the Korean Folk Village? It's a village that kept everything as it was centuries ago. It's a turist attraction, but it kept a decent level of realism, it actually feels like a jump in the past.

It was a really nice experience, they managed to keep a perfect balance between a turist attraction and a real experience. I think some people working there were actually living in the village.

Here some kids are writing wishes on a scaman's tree. Shamanism apparently was big in Korea before Buddism 

Old Korean village were more advanced than you think...

Some ancient Korean Gods...

Some spots were actually breath taking views

Dead or Alive!

Inside the village there were a few event turist could attend. One of those was a recreation of a traditional wedding cerimony

There were also some real temples and old tombs

Fortune tellers. Everywhere in Korea

Despite the number of turists around,it wasn't hard to find quite spaces to relax

Not sure what's that tube is about. A rain catcher is my guess.

Old man sitting outside the abandoned temple

Who's getting drunk at luch???

BTW, that's not a pizza, but a traditional Korean pancake

After the folk village I got back to Seoul, and I had some time before meeting my third and last host (which luckily was a normal person this time, very nice as well) so i went to the Korean National Museum.

This are the famous dragon falls inside the museum. Too bad there's no falls at all. So....Yeah.

So this is when it all started...damn rice...

despite I was in a Korean museum, the most amazing thing I saw was this ancient samurai armor and the gold katana

This are the Buddah hands positions....

So....

....Yeah.

Later I met my host and we went for dinner. it was goooood

Later on we went clubbing, there was some party happening and I actually even met my first host there. 

Most importantly, I danced Gangnam style in korea!