Last Saturday we went to Seoul as tourists. Some people who visit South Korea never even leave Seoul, but we had been here over a year and have barely seen anything of the world's second biggest metropolitan area (Wikipedia). It worked out really well. I looked online and the top things to do in Seoul were things like "try the food" and "look at traditional dress." All that we had left to do was visit historic palaces and visit our friend Sunny who had recently moved to Seoul for school (actually, this was more of a visit Sunny first and see historic stuff on the side).
We went to the famous palace in Seoul, Gyeongbok Palace. This was the last palace the king and queen of Korea ever lived in.
See all the pretty umbrellas? It was pouring rain. This turned out to be good, there were less people to wait behind to see the thrones. We also got some free middle school tour guides to tell us about the palace.
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| The two girls on the ends were our tour guides, and the girl in the middle is our friend Sunny. |
It was a really neat place. We learned that the queen wasn't allowed to leave the inner palace, and there was a stream that commoners weren't allowed past into the outer palace. They also had palace guards like they do at Buckingham palace, except their facial hair was painted on.
We then went to a historical area that had a lot of old restored buildings. It was a nice place, full of winding roads and nice buildings. They were all privately owned, we though it would be a nice place to live.
So, Seoul was a really nice place to visit. They have 5 palaces in Seoul and we only got to see one. We may have to go back and visit Sunny again.
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