Thursday, May 03, 2007

From Garbage to Garlands and Governers

As most outings in Seoul begin, this one began on the subway to Yeoido.
Yeoido is an island in the middle of the Han River in the middle of Seoul. I believe it used to be a landfill, but more recently it has been converted into a business park as well as a cherry blossom park. A cherry blossom festival is held here every year during the blossoms' peak. We were not fortunate enough to visit during the peak, but we were close.


I'm not sure exactly what this is, since it's not Christmas or anything, but we took a picture of it anyway because it's still cool (whatever it is):
This is the parliament building. Yep.

[insert pithy epilogical comment here]

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have nothing pithy nor epilogical to say here. Alas.

Tiffany said...

Yarr.

Anonymous said...

The weird Christmas-tree look-alike thingy was the entrance to the Cherry Blossom Festival. It had lots of flowers imbedded into it. All the pedestrian visitors (the only kind) walk past that as they stroll down the road lined with cherry blossom trees.