For our last day in South Korea, we decided to take a tour of the Korean Demilitarized Zone DMZ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone), the "buffer" zone between North and South Korea. This is included seeing Imjingak Park, the Bridge of Freedom, the 3rd infiltration Tunnel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Tunnel_of_Aggression), Dorasan station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorasan_Station), DMZ Theater / Exhibition Hall, Dora observatory, and the Unification Village. For a late lunch, we went to Itaewon (the foreigner area of Seoul...near the US Military base) for a some "urban tacos" (fusion with Korean cuisine) from a restaurant owned by a guy from California. For dinner, we went to a restaurant that served makgeolli, an alcoholic beverage that is a mixture of wheat and rice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makgeolli, and huge Korean pancakes (pajeon). For dessert, I decided to get a cookies and cream bubble tea. We spent the rest of our free time walking around the city.
"Following the South-North Joint Declaration made by two Koreas on June 15,2000, both agreed to connect the Gyeongui Railroad Line broken during the Korean War. Dorasan station was opened on April 11, 2002, and the South and the North connected the Gyeongui Railroad Line on June 14, 2003 at the Military Demarcation Line in the DMZ." ... I believe it is not is use...mostly symbolic right now. Pyeongyang is the capital of North Korea.
At Dora observatory
Very foggy so we couldn't see North Korea or much of the DMZ
The 3rd infiltration tunnel is the third North Korean tunnel found by the South Korean government in 1978. We walked down in one of them.
Flavor I haven't seen before!
Makgeolli
Pajeon
"Water" kimichi
Cookies and cream bubble tea
My last picture of Seoul