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mercoledì 17 luglio 2013

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!



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