The rest of our day in Seoul

We had a coffee from a stall holder, and sat in the sun on 2 plastic chairs - it was good to rest our feet. We then walked up some stone steps to the Bukchon Hanok village. These are traditional houses, still lived in. It was interesting to walk around looking at the architecture and alleys but annoying that in the traditional craft centre you could only see craftwork if you paid to do an activity. The place is a bit like Clovelly - a victim of it's own success.

Two enthusiastic tourist guides;

Our next stop was....... a Buddhist temple even though we've seen quite a few earlier in this trip! They all have their own unique aspects though. They offer a 'homestay' here where you spend 2 days living alongside the monks including rising at 5am. By the look of the shoes left outside a number of small temple rooms dotted around the site they had a few customers.

You can write a wish, pop it in a bag and it will come true;

We walked across the Han river and caught the metro home discussing various options for dinner. In the end we found spaghetti, sauce and some form of ham (spam?) in a 7-11 shop and cooked at the hostel.

I've used various loos over the course of the trip - the one I used in the subway here had a choice of a western style loo or a hole in the ground. The soap dispenser had this blue handle - pull, push or twist? Nope - the blue is actually a bar of soap!

This was outside the Folk Museum;

We have had a lot of stares in Seoul. Even at the major tourist spots westerners are rare. I don't think the hostel gets many westerners either and the 2 girls on duty really took to us and gave us hugs and took a photo of us when we checked out.