Anyhow, we arrived to Seoul and went to explore this enormous metropolitan area. Wiki says "Seoul (listen IPA: [sʌul]) is the capital and largest city of South Korea. With over ten million people, Seoul is one of the world's largest cities. It is also the world's third largest metropolitan area, the Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, having almost 23 million inhabitants".
Indeed, it is HUGE!. You can walk miles and miles and enter different shopping malls, night clubs, resturants, ...
Here are some random photos from the three days we spent there:
Shay is leading a military march:
Shay is sitting on a red chair:
Shay is looking up while sitting on the red chair...
Shay is sad because Mai told him to sit on the small red chair:
For all those Neuroscience readers out there... Here are a few examples of urban neurons:
You might have noticed that Shay's hair got longer during the trip. A quick visit to a local hair dresser fixed that up:
Too short.
Looks like Haifa's downtown, eh ?
One of the nicest things about Seoul is a river that flows in the middle of the city. It was renovated a few years ago, and there is now a 5.6 km promenade near the stream, with beautiful waterfalls, paintings and vegetation:
Something old, something new:
And finally - a glass of cold beer at one of the pubs near the student's district.
1 comment:
you drink corona in Korea? How about some local beer?
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