Bukchon, where
we're staying, is rather a village frozen in time; the palaces are
nearby and consequently most influential families had their houses on
the hills nearby.
Certainly the tourist walking route is busy on a Sunday morning
old and a faraway new
and x
Meanwhile, we found that the festivities for Buddha's brthday continued
with food,
lessons in paper-lantern making,
places to chill out,
and you can imagine how this tent set us off humming all afternoon...
The temples
The temples
are alive with lanterns (to which messages are attached)
which seems to draw attantion to and emphasise the detail of the temple itself
Then it was time for the entertainment - unexpectedly a mash-up of traditional dancing with Saturday Night Fever
We found some old friends from last night's parade
and, on the way home, spotted how you can come to have a session with your own costume (W10,000 is about £6). I'm confident that they wouldn't have had anything to fit D!!
Back for a preprandial local beer in our guesthouse courtyard
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