It was Buddha’s birthday around a month ago. To celebrate I took the KTX up to Seoul where I met E and her Daejeon crew at some foreigner oriented festivities. The lateness of this post is partly due to my jet-set way of life last month and also procrastination. Here is my long await *cough* *cough* post on Buddha’s bday.
Buddha’s bday is also known as the Lotus Lantern Festival. Needless to say we saw a lot of lanterns. (You can view my Facebook pics of them all here.) Specifically for foreigners there was a lotus lantern-making event. About 200 foreigners spent two hours of their Sunday afternoon feverishly twisting and gluing pretty bits of paper in an attempt to make a lantern. In the end prizes were awarded (yours truly got away with a “Lotus Lantern Maker” prize) and then we dispersed into the light drizzle of Insadong Street to check out what else there was to see.
That night there was a pretty and very lengthy parade. The highlight of which was the soldiers who did some pretty impressive tricks with their guns. The least impressive was the pseudo female soldiers who followed in short skirts and fake guns.
All in all it was a short and sweet trip to Seoul.
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