Taejongdae Park

I was at Taejongdae Park today. As we had another free day before school starts tomorrow we decided to make the most of it and head down to Taejongdae Park which is on the south of Yeongdo island.

But first of all we headed down to Nampo-dong to grab some pizza from the one and only Mr Pizza. He really does love women. Sunday seems to be when the buses are on some sort of half-timetable. We waited around for a while and finally got a bus which took us to the end of the line. Yeongdo has no subway line yet. After a death defying bus trip along the clifftops we arrived at the bus terminal. The bus drivers are crazy here, they work on a basis that the number of times they do their route, they get paid more. So they risk life and limb to get to the next stop. The streets of Busan are like a bus race circuit.

So Taejongdae Park is really quite nice. There is a memorial to the soldiers who died in the Korean war, and then after a steep entrance you reach the main area where a rather splendid Mack truck turned fake train is waiting to transport your lazy ass around the waterfront road. Of course you could walk it but we were on a bit of a schedule and it was really cheap. The first stop was an elevated walkway which overlooked the ocean. Amazing views out to sea, and it was great watching all the tankers which are anchored before coming into docks. Then there are the small pleasure cruisers milling around. Back onto the truck and the next stop is the lighthouse. Lots and lots of steps led us down to the another deck for viewing and then even more steps led us down to the rocky beachfront where you can sit and enjoy the view. There are even dinosaur prints here apparantly! Im sure I saw one roaming around in the undergrowth.

After that stop we jumped back on the truck and were back to the entrance in no time. One thing I did notice is that everyone has a super sweet camera. Not surprising as they are all made here. But even so, there were Canon's and Nikon's with big lenses everywhere!

And then we ran for the bus which was just leaving, and made our way to Seomyeon for dinner. After some chow I headed back to the hotel as I was speaking to my folks via video chat. Oh, the wonders of this Internet thingy.

Well, school tomorrow. Dun, dun dunnnnn.