DMZ & JSA

One thing that every tourist MUSTDO when visiting Korea: Tour to DMZ (Demilitarized zone) and JSA (Joint Security area). Tour: Imjingak -> The 3rd Tunnel -> Dora Observatory -> Dorasan Station -> Unification Village -> Camp Bonifas -> Panmunjom

IMJINGAK

Freedom Bridge

  

DMZ & The Third Tunnel

View to North Korea from Dora Observatory

Dorasan Station

Unification Village & Camp Bonifas

Bridge of No Return

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"I am not afraid of an army of lions 

led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

~Alexander The Great

Good things come to those who bait

Good-Thing-Hunting: 

Korean Ice-Fishing Festival

Kids know how....

  

Oh. Well. Exception proves the rule right ?

Right. Well. Something, actually went very profoundly wrong. Ice fish-hunting resulted in a zero ice fish and one female-icicle with a rod that had been robbed of all the worms. Erhm. Oh. But. Lot of fun is better than a lot of catch, right ? Right. Did I have fun? Hmm. To put it very frankly: Every Finn should ice-fish once in their lives. And once, is often enough.  

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"Numb toes are not of any use." 

- Maamismi

Soulissa Sielussa Soulin Sielussa

And I traveled and I traveled and I traveled. More precisely: Traveled approx. 18 hours from Helsinki to Milan from Milan to Hong Kong from Hong Kong to Seoul (South Korea)...

And at first glance, saw this...

 

And had a reunion with old Camino friends :)

(Koreans I met in the pilgrimage last summer)

The summer of 2014(Santiago, Spain): 

--->

January 2015: Seoul, South Korea

Friend: "Do you want to go to Starbucks 

or a traditional Korean tea house?" 

Me: "Well, what do you think?" 

Traditional Korean tea house:

Shoes off ! Sit on the pillow at a low table and order some freshly brewed ginger tea or macha or milktea...

And some of this to go with it...

AND then I got a reminder of what FOOD is supposed to taste and look and feel like!

And finally, learned new meanings for some familiar words...

Namu = Tree

Moi = Name of a restaurant (meaning unknown)

    

Oh well that is all I have to say about that right now period.

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My bro joined the army, and I...

...made him a cake. A Tank Cake.

"The army teaches boys to think like men" 

~Elvis Presley

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