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First Time In Korea
... luggage and off we went to the Great Residence Hotel for an overnight stay. The hotel was fairly new and located underneath an expressway ramp. A dirt road led to the hotel entrance. I have to admit at this time I began to get concerned about my hotel selection; however, my worries quickly passed as we approached the main hotel atrium. How bad could it be? I paid $19/night per room which included 2 people per room, breakfast and roundtrip transportation to ...
My week in Dongducheon
... a very strange haircut I got. An older woman cut my hair and it looked like she did a good job, until I got home to find out it was completely crooked. After she was done cutting, she sent me to the back of the shop to get my hair washed by another girl. She washed it and then brought me back out front and proceeded to give me a very strange massage. She went for my shoulders, my neck, then tried cracking my neck, and stretched my arms out behind my ...
Inchin' along at Incheon....
... were also very good - the screen in front of me had, amongst other less palatable fare, a couple of quality documentaries, one on Madagascar and the other on the nature of galaxcies and dark matter... in the fim section there was The Hustler and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!! :-) There was also a decent selection of games like Minesweeper, Tetris, etc. too...
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Seoul & DMZ - the very last stop!
... military personnel and the mountains. There is a yellow line you must stand behind if you want to take photos, so you can't get any close photos of North Korea.
Last we went to Dorasan Station which is the furthest north station in South Korea. We were able to get North Korean passport stamps there (obviously we didn't stamp them onto our passports we used old ATM slips!)
Today we went to the National Museum of Korea which was really good.
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Seoul: Run, DMZ! (aka Ahoy, North Korea)
... you can sort of step into North Korea. The area isn't large and the most interesting buildings are the blue conference room and the North Korean building behind it. As we learned, there is no communication between the South and North, meaning no waving, no pointing, no weird faces. Just polite non-committal smiles and standing around. We're given about two minutes worth of time to take all the pictures you want in front of the border, which feels again a ...



