South Korea

At Haeinsa Temple - me, Mom, dad, David and Mi.



The Tripitaka scripts - the Koreans invented moveable type several centuries before the Gutenberg press - they are housed in a special room by the temple at Haeinsa. (From Wikipedia: "It is the world's most comprehensive and oldest intact version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script, with no known errors or errata in the 52,382,960 characters which are organized in over 1496 titles and 6568 volumes. Each wood block measures 70 centimeters in width and 24 centimeters in length. The thickness of the blocks range from 2.6 to 4 centimeters and each weights about three to four kilograms.")



A particularly beautiful fountain on Odeo.



Odeo Island - the topiary looks like Dr. Seuss.



The temple was so beautiful...




At Odeo Island ("Paradise Island") - most of the statuary was Greek while the topiary was Korean, but this seemed a touch of the Americana to me.




My brother David and his fiancee Mi!


You can place a rock on top of the temple and make a wish...






First sight of Busan after 23 hours of flying - looked like a candy Disneyland with all the neon.