Insects are one of my favorite subjects to photograph, but I did do a lot of running around after butterflies this time.
All pictures from a hike in Okpo, South Korea
Insects are incredible
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The old part of Seoul
I have talked about Korea to everyone I’ve met after we came home. It was just so crazy and wonderful. But because of very little internet and even less free time, I have not had time to actually blog my pictures (or get the last week of Korea into Dropbox).
But as I have literally thousands of pictures, I thought I should just do this cronologically and maybe I have time to transfer the rest of the pictures before I run out of the ones I have…
Day one: we did a tour of the historic part of Seoul, filled with old fashioned houses. And old fashioned in Korea means 800 years old. Old means 4000 years.
A beautiful roof end.
A river in the middle of Seoul, where everyone used to get their water.
A big traditional house.
A stone pagoda.
In this area of Seoul, these old houses were ordinary houses for families, not just in museums.
I love how this old house is used as a shop, a merge of old and new.
In Korea they invented heated floors 800 years ago, using this technique.
Since the 1970’s they have renovated many of the houses and given them modern facilities. They are of course guarded by UNESCO.
Waiting for the metro. We never waited for more than 5 minutes.
This is what a narrow escalator looks like in Korea, one person only.
DMZ
We visited the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea. There are a lot of bus tours and even though you know that everything they tell you is propaganda, it is still an interesting insight into the ongoing conflict between the two countries. If we had planned better we would have gone to the border where the soldiers from the South and North are staring at each other, but we didn’t. But here are the pictures I was allowed to take.
Glimpses of nature
Thought I’d share some nature photography from my trip to South Korea. We did some hiking in the woods and I found many beautiful plants and animals. Here are some shots from people’s gardens just at the edge of the woods.
Dreaming of summer and rock festivals
We drove to this free rock festival just outside Busan in Ruben’s car.
Erik and Ruben did not plan this.
They didn’t have light shows, but water shows and there was this big mud pit.
There was even this firetruck to keep people cool.
Aren’t we pretty?
Cool Korean festival girls.
We used our umbrella for shade.
As we didn’t have a tent…
I had just bought a new bikini and was very happily matching the two guys.
Mmmm, iced coppi.
Aquariuuum
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In Seoul
Vi er i Seoul. Vi leser høyt her også 😉