Yesterday (14th April) was finally the first day without pre-arranged program. I spent the day in a spa and rested as much as possible. We also had great and cheap pizza with the ladies in the centre of Geojan. We also did some souvenier shopping. Really nice and relaxing day in my opinion. Weather was also pretty good yesterday, warm but not too hot.
Today we are on a road again. We saw more than 1000 years old briddge, museum related to bridge´s history of the bridge in Korean. We also had a nice walk besides a lake near the museum. Lunch was really great and I got finally deacent tofu. The best tofu during this trip so far. There were again approximately 10 or more small plates veggie stuff and for starter pork/tofu plate. Main food was tofuporrige (tasted like mannapuuro really) with rice. Desert included apple slices and coffee for those who wanted to have it.
Wealnut cakes are here delicious and a kind of big hit as well. We had those again today after the luch. Those are small sweet eateble cakes and inside there is some jam or maybe it is redbean souce (sweet one). I was thinking about that this would be really great with some chockled mousse in it. Hmm...
Afternoon included Korean independence hall visit or at least it was a plan, but because it was a Monday so the museum and area were closed. We went to instead to Chungmugong Yi Sunsin Memorial Museum and Hyeonchungsa Shrine that was open. There was an exhibition related Korean naval history between 1300-1600 centuries, really nice park, worship place and also finally on a short distance cherry blossoms also available. We also visited Botabsa temple, that was really nice and especially great moment was when the monks offered us Omija (red berry from Korea) tea which was sour and bitter but also somehow it tasted very well in the cold weather.
Did you know btw that the wooden "drum" instrument does actually have a shape of a fish if you look it little bit closer? This is used during buddhist ceremonies in temples.
Dinner was again way beyond our dreams. You had a chance to barbecue a duck breast meat "on your way" straight in the front of you on the dinner table. Here are some pics attached from the dinner set.
On Tue morning (16th April) we also heard about the tragedy related to Boston maraton. This is a huge schock again for Americans and also for the western sporting scene. So no news about Korean peninsula available on western news channels. North Korea had their big day yesterday and we shall see when there will be new news from North Korea. At least it seems that tings are getting more peaceful.
Updated on 24th on April
Today will be North Korean army celebration day (anniversity day) so this day or none will be auspicious for missile launch. Will see what is going to happend.
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