We woke up early to squeeze out what we could of our last day in Seoul. We had breakfast at the hotel then headed out to the subway. We went up to the Bukchon area which is considered the middle of the nation's capital city. It was very quaint and had a lot of beautiful old homes as well as a lot of cute little museums and galleries including a Chicken Museum, and a Kite Workshop, that was unfortunately closed. We took a tour of a Buddhist art museum, and walked through several of the side streets in the neighborhood.
Next we headed over to Changgyeonggung Palace, the other large palace in the city's center. It was impressively large and had a bunch more little buildings and homes, but really was more of the same from the palace we saw yesterday. There is a Hidden Garden (not so hidden, I guess) near it, but unfortunately you can only go with a tour guide and the tour started 30 minutes before we had to leave. So instead, we decided to head back to Insadong to get some of that Dragon's beard candy. We got to watch our new best friend give a demo, and recognized us instantly and warmly. He was quite a ham and I got video of it which I'll try to add together and post (for some silly reason, I cut it into a couple of videos.)
We headed back to our hotel, checked out and made our way to the airport, and are waiting for the looong flight home now. This has been such an amazing trip. When I'm back I'll post some pictures as well as provide some more of the things that we enjoyed.
Hope you've enjoyed traveling along with me! Until the next adventure...
Sam
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