Gwangju Hotel

... and many of them lead to small grave sites. Finally we reach our destination, the Mudeung Park Hotel, which is located near the International Cuisine Area of Gwangju, and I believe is one of the city's most expensive hotels.  In it's parking ...

... and - the folk museum on the site A good day. Our Kimchi was 'left' in the hotel room fridge..... The hotel is in suburban Gwangju & its surrounds were a little odd & sleazy but we found a bar with western food but they still ...

After going back to main land I went to Gwangju Prince Hotel, and rested for a day. I slept like a log for 12 hours. I guess that's what you get for traveling right after you've had a 13 hour flight. After I woke up, I set out to travel to Bulguksa. I ...

... 's mom took our future into her own hands and made alternative plans for us. She arranged an overnight stay at a beach hotel between Gwangju and Daejeon for us and even paid for our transportation and the hotel fee, which was waayyyyyyy toooooo generous. ...

... dish consisting of pickled cabbage and red crap that Koreans seem to love and eat breakfast, lunch and tea. We finally made it to Gwangju...it was a bit of a close call. We arrived at the international airport in Seoul and had just over 1 hr to get ...

... where they cooked the meat and vegetables at our table over a burner -- I just love that  :-) Anyway, we headed back to Gwangju afterwards and decided that it was too late to head to another city.  We came back to our hotel from the night ...

... , scarf and gloves were almost immediately required if spending more that 10 min's outside. We had one heck of a time finding our hotel which unfortunately soured us of any excitement we felt toward arriving in a city of 13 million that will hold the ...

... which have found their way across the Pacific and found a home in common Korean speak: Computer games, Quiz, Office Tel (office + hotel),  ID, Condo, Engineer, Team, Taxi, Bond (super glue),   Cider (7up), Sexy, Melo (+drama),  ...

... and such.           On the first day after the airport we went to downtown Gwangju to buy some appropriate clothing for our day out. Preston bought a Unlce Sam shirt which was the most American shirt we could ...

... co-hosted with Japan and did so well at – all their stadiums seem to be called 'World Cup Stadium’ except the Gwangju stadium that we stayed near called Gus Hiddink stadium after the manager that guided them to the semi-finals in 2002. Lots of ...

... 't the best thing to spend my vacation but it was a good time killer.  We then went to the airport and took a flight to Gwangju then to Jeju.  It was funny because we got off the plane at Gwangju then got right back on the same plane.  The ...

... then meandered back towards the airport via "Loveland" - you probably need to google this but dodgy statutes/models & a sex shop......Liz giggled a lot.... A short walk on seafront near Iho Beach and we got the car back in one piece to fly to ...

... the most luxurious I've ever ridden on, with more room than a business class seat on an airline.  Fortunately, upon arriving in Gwangju we only had a short wait for a bus another hour and a half south to Haenam, our base for the weekend.  We ...

... statues. It was quite pretty and like so many parks and sights during the week: almost deserted. After the temple I went back to Gwangju and had a really great but very spicy fried squid with rice meal before taking the bus to Mokpo, where I am now. ...