Martin Nieto

I just realized it has been over a month that I haven’t post anything here… I’ve been busy and really enjoying most of classes so maybe that’s why time is flying so quickly.  i think  I’m getting back to posting stuff here… I still have about 8 days more to post but  honestly I don’t know if I could ever finish posting my whole trip as I’m not that interested in editing and browsing tons of pictures. mm.. I may start posting something else besides photos…  Anyway, here is my last day in Busan which wasn’t that great. I was expecting to at least have some cloudy weather but it almost kept raining all the time…

This was one of the few days that I actually left the hostel early as I had so many stuff that I wanted to do on my last day there.  My first stop was the Haedong Yonggungsa Temple.  It took a while to get here so that was one of the reasons on getting out early.  I first thought this place was going to be all alone because of the rain but not there was plenty of people that it got kinda annoying specially by the stairs it was impossible to shoot over there.

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

The temple was beautiful as the tons of temples I saw in my trip, but this one was different thought as it was by the sea rather than the mountains so the view was really nice and unique… these last 2 crappy wide iphone shoots just doesn’t make justice…

After that I took the bus back to Haeundae beach. So because of the crappy weather it wasn’t a perfect day to go to the so called most popular beach in South Korea.   it was freaking dead even the streets it was nothing like the pictures I have seen before, like this one  for example… that would have been perfect for taking pictures, LOL …

Haeundae beach

Haeundae beach

Haeundae beach

Haeundae beach

Haeundae beach

In top of that I lost my friend, so I stayed there walking around for while looking for him… definitively not my best day. luckily I found him just when I was about to leave by myself to Gwangalli Beach another popular beach. The weather started to clear just when getting to Gwangalli  so the view from the beach was really beautiful and worthy  just what I had expected. Too bad I don’t have landscape pictures to show as I took those with film and haven’t develop them yet, maybe until next year…

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

Gwangalli Beach

So I’m back in Chicago and getting ready for school tomorrow.  I can’t wait!… Korea was really awesome, I hope to go back again but I guess it won’t be anytime soon as I would like to visit other countries too like Thailand, Hong Kong, China and Japan!

Well, here are some pics from the second day I stayed in Busan. It was kinda of a short day as I went out late and as it just kept raining the whole day, i came back early to do some laundry. so I just went to Jagalchi Fish Market and Yongdusan Park and walked alot around those areas. I liked the ( Gukje ) market near by and Nampodong street. I kinda regretted not staying there at night,  as i think it would have looked very nice at night…

So i’ll be leaving Korea tomorrow, i wish i could stay longer as i really like it here.  the people were very nice and there is still so many beautiful places i would like to go.
well, its been a while since my last post but so far i had been in Busan, Gyeongju and Daegu and just got back to Seoul yesterday. i didn’t go to Andong as i had planed and instead spent  an extra day in Daegu. i wish i had more time…
Well, right after Jeju i went to Busan. i got very early as i took the ferry overnight. it took about 12  hrs. it wasn’t that bad as some comments i had heard of…
I got some nice weather the first day in Busan. i think i did a mistake not going to the beach this day as all my next days in busan were raining all day.  i  didn’t took many pictures this day as i spent so much time at the Heosimcheong hot springs Spa. i had to admit that i felt very weird being naked in front of tons of people there but i think it was worth especially after the long trip to Busan and the morning hiking in Beomeosa temple. At night i walked around the busan station and checkout chinatown that its just around there but it was more like russian town. later on i walked around the hostel which was located in Seomyeon, (the heart of Busan)

Busan Station