Tuesday, August 16. We got up, had breakfast on the second floor of the hotel (mostly salad and Korean fare), then headed out to begin to explore Busan.
First, some random photos from wandering through the neighborhoods on the way to our destination:
Lots of houses had really fancy gates in front of them.
Andrew the navigator.
And, finally our destination: The Busan Museum.
The Museum is closed on Mondays, unless Monday is a national holiday, in which case it is closed on Tuesday. And yesterday was the anniversary of the end of WWII, which is a national holiday.
But, the grounds were open, so we wandered around there.
It was really pretty. We took a couple of family photos here.
This little gazebo was cool.
Continuing on up the hill on our way to our next destination, we found a little park with some exercise equipment. The kids had a blast playing around on it.
A typical Busan scene.
And, we arrived at our next destination: A Korean War memorial cemetery.
It was also really pretty.
On the cemetery grounds was this memorial, kind of like the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC., which lists the names of all the UN soldiers killed in the Korean war.
You can't tell from the photos, but it was really hot and humid. On the way out we stopped in at the chapel, which had a video talking about the history of the cemetery, which was interesting. But mostly it was air conditioned.
We watched the video in Korean, then a guy that worked there came in and restarted it for us in English, which was nice. But just after it started playing a bunch of Korean soldiers came in and sat down, then we felt bad that we were making them sit through the English version.
Then it was time to brave the heat and humidity and head off to our next destination.
Here are a few random Busan city scenes as we made our way to a gimbap restaurant for lunch.
