A chronicle of Paul and Aubrey's adventures and experiences in Sokcho, South Korea and beyond as they teach English for a year.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Gyeongju.

A view of Tumuli Park

We have now returned from our lovely Chuseok holiday in Gyeongju, the capital of the 1000-yr. old Silla Dynasty. What you see above looks like an ordinary hill, but it is actually a tomb. In fact, this city is littered with tombs. This one is called Hwangnam Daechong, and it's actually the biggest tomb in Gyeongju (80 by 120 by 23 m--this pair of tombs). There were 59,000 relics excavated here! And this was just one of the 23 tombs in this particular park...

3 Comments:

Blogger batavian babe said...

Beautiful scene, Aubrey. Looks like two lovely green bazooms! Very peaceful and serene.

11:05 AM

 
Blogger Sittintall said...

That looks gorgeous, so peaceful. Glad you're back and hope you had a great time. And for goodness sakes, green bazooms, come on mom, please!

11:24 AM

 
Blogger streetwise said...

Actually Mom, that's what they reminded me of as well ;)

6:53 PM

 

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