Adventures in South Korea!: Exploring -사육신묘

Emerging from the Noryangjin Subway

노량진 - Noryangjin

Noryangjin is the neighborhood right next to Andrew's school, and where the majority of his students live. It's a small, busy area filled mostly with coffee shops, restaurants and bars (like every other neighborhood in Seoul). But the real attraction to Noryangjin is the concentration of street food. There is a stretch of a couple of blocks that's packed with stalls selling everything from fried rice to kebabs to dim sum, all cheap and almost all delicious.

Street Food

Savory Pancakes
Pictured: Pizza Pancake & Double Cheese
Not great, but not terrible

Vegetable Toast
A toasted onion, carrot and mushroom omelet sandwich.
Pretty tasty.

We had originally set out on this exploring mission to grab a street snack, and then head into the large fish market, but in trying to find the entrance to the fish market, we stumbled across a hilltop park with shrines and tombs.

Koreans doing what they do best: getting their hike on

Fall in Korea

Of the parks and 'natural' areas that we regularly visited/drove past in Ulsan, most of the vegetation was coniferous or just weeds, so we never really got to see the full impact of the seasons changing. Most of it was green, gray and brown year round. After an Autumn without much change, it was really nice to walk through a park filled with the vibrant colors of the season. That being said, there were many a tree and leaf picture taken...