umyeonsan

a flowing water archway leads to the first of many ways up umyeonsan

at the top

Seoul Arts Center - front green round building top

lets go to the temple

follow the empty spring channel down a million steps

some of which to my delight had numbers on them... i'm not the only one

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welcome to the tiny blessed temple of umyeonsan, under construction

a little but still an enjoyable end, their pavilions of lanterns were awesome!

I hope more temples that I visit have similar places to enjoy, the festival of lanterns (free lantern making near insadong... yay!) and buddah's birthday are two pretty awesome combined holidays

Overall it was a great hike, finally now that it seems the weather has gotten warmer I will be spending more time in the park and enjoying the day hiking Korea has to offer. All the mountains connect, so maybe one day I will see how far I can get in a day!

After the hiking trip patrick invited me out to enjoy olympic park with him so we brought our reading books and found a bench for a few hours, idly chatting and enjoying the weather, then later catching some galbi on the walk home and taking a few back streets through our local farmers market... which i have yet to take my camera too. this is going to be a super easy week at work. fashion show and cooking tuesday, wednesday off and friday is our overnight stay on nami island.