Last Day in Gyeongju (At Last)
Sorry for the slow posts around here. It's been pretty busy around here the past couple of weeks!
So let's finally finish your tour of Gyeonju: Saturday, or the day it rained. And rained. And rained.
We went to Tumulus Park in the morning, which has a bunch of tombs of kings and other royalty from the Silla dynasty. They used to build wooden boxes about the size of a small room and fill them with lots of things that the dead could use in the afterlife: crowns, jewelry, paintings--you know, important stuff. Then they heaped dirt on top into big mounds. You can see burial mounds all over the place, which is kind of creepy and neat at the same time.
They've only excavated a few tombs, and they've recovered a ton of artifacts, which are housed in the museum. You can actually go into one of the excavated tombs, too, and see the original burial box (well, the wood is decomposed but they dug out the room and left the bones and everything). Artifacts from the tomb are also displayed.
Travis and me outside the tomb.
By the time we were finished at the park, it was really pouring, so we decided to go to the museum.
The museum was definitely cool. Of course, it would have been cooler if it hadn't been packed with families trying to get in out of the rain just like us. There was even a really long line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot. Since we took a taxi, the only line we had to wait in was the one for tickets--which was plenty long itself.
The artifacts were fun to look at and all, but the best stuff was outside: a giant bell, a couple of nice pagodas, and a bunch of statues.
Pagodas at Gyeongju Museum.
And that's all. We came home early and ended our weekend of Korean culture with a nice dose of American culture: Mission Impossible III. And the movie wasn't even that bad! All in all, it was a successful holiday.
So let's finally finish your tour of Gyeonju: Saturday, or the day it rained. And rained. And rained.
We went to Tumulus Park in the morning, which has a bunch of tombs of kings and other royalty from the Silla dynasty. They used to build wooden boxes about the size of a small room and fill them with lots of things that the dead could use in the afterlife: crowns, jewelry, paintings--you know, important stuff. Then they heaped dirt on top into big mounds. You can see burial mounds all over the place, which is kind of creepy and neat at the same time.
They've only excavated a few tombs, and they've recovered a ton of artifacts, which are housed in the museum. You can actually go into one of the excavated tombs, too, and see the original burial box (well, the wood is decomposed but they dug out the room and left the bones and everything). Artifacts from the tomb are also displayed.
Travis and me outside the tomb.By the time we were finished at the park, it was really pouring, so we decided to go to the museum.
The museum was definitely cool. Of course, it would have been cooler if it hadn't been packed with families trying to get in out of the rain just like us. There was even a really long line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot. Since we took a taxi, the only line we had to wait in was the one for tickets--which was plenty long itself.
The artifacts were fun to look at and all, but the best stuff was outside: a giant bell, a couple of nice pagodas, and a bunch of statues.
Pagodas at Gyeongju Museum.And that's all. We came home early and ended our weekend of Korean culture with a nice dose of American culture: Mission Impossible III. And the movie wasn't even that bad! All in all, it was a successful holiday.
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