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Bulguksa and Seokguram

Awww I woke up rather uncomfortable: I went out last night for too long and slept over for some hours. Fortunately I was not too late for applying for my courses, because today registration started. In the end, I did not get into one course I wanted to, but hope to plead to get into it at the professor’s place next week when school starts.

After that I directly went to see Korea’s well-known Bulguksa, a buddhist temple. You drive for about 30mins but you get there.

By the way, in front of the National Museum there was a replica located of a small tower of the original located inside Bulguksa.

Some pictures from the front entrance:

After that, I took a bus shuttle to the Seokguram Grotto which inhabits a buddhist statue. Before you get there, you have to walk through a park for 15-20 minutes, too.

To be honest, it’s not as great as they say, and I confirm the Moon Handbook’s statement that you can’t even see the encraved words in the grotto - because they have put a plexiglas plate in front of that to actually protect the statue. Since there was no further sign and explanation to it at least, a total disappointment.

And of course everybody wanted to see that so you have to hassle too. I could have saved the 4,000 W for anything else. Went back to the hostel after that in the afternoon. Looked for a restaurant nearby and had Galbi Soup. I was taking a walk in the town and sitting here writing this in a café. Though I wanted to rest in the evening, the Hanjin Hostel owner noticed that there’s a outdoor performance resembing to Silla dynasty music near the Bomun Lake.

I went there and it was fantastic!

Suddenly, it started raining hard so the performance was interrupted and I had to get home sooner.