around Gwangju (by taxi, by bus, on foot): our full day in Gwangju was low-key. We spent part of it hanging around Lindsay's neighborhood, part of in a temple area near a national park, and part of it looking around Gwangju's Art Street
view from Lindsay's apartment |
arguably the best doorstop |
i agree, now is the right time for coffee |
Nail the rich |
Lindsay took us to a temple-style vegan buffet |
It was very good |
foggy mountain view, from near the restaurant |
house of lanterns |
temple pond |
dragon, resting |
mural along path by stream |
we went walking along this path after lunch |
a tasty beverage |
this one is coffee, though |
we stopped in this cute coffee shop to regroup before our next leg |
cartoon near coffee shop |
Gwangju City art |
we walked to a small Buddhist temple near the coffee shop |
the temple was at the entrance to a large national park, which we did not traverse |
sadly, we did not check out either Angel-in-us coffee shop or the dining room shaped like a flying boat |
path to the temple |
temple entrance |
a number of spare roof shingles |
a drum depicting a dragon menacing a kelp |
interior of the temple |
shutters and lanterns at the temple |
Gina and Catherine sit on the steps and consider the rain |
nice roof though |
this gutter is a duck |
stone wall |
roof decoration |
sculpture of birds behind a tree |
building in Gwangju |
portrait outside Chonnam Girls' High School, of student activist Park Seon-Young |
tile art showing a fencer |
tile art showing a fencer in a different genre |
we are exploring many fencer tropes in this tile art |
more art outside Chonnam Girls' High School |
Green Food Zone |
entrance to Gwangju's Art Street |
art street in the rain |
sadly i do not have room in my life for this giant room-sized screen art, i think by an artist named Jeon Mi-Ran |
it's very fun, though, right? |
tower on top of a tree on top of a village, with birds |
birds and leaves |
a girl and a pet |
so, okay, the Anne of Green Gables thing |
Anne and Diana sitting on a fence |
there's not that much to it, basically just: Anne of Green Gables is enormously popular in South Korea |
little porcelain statues, in a window |
the Red Queen, as a bench |
next stop: an English-language bookstore |
Gina holds an assortment of English-language books |
these stores pretty exclusively sell books for students who are trying to learn English |
former site of YWCA Gwangju |
self-portrait in very shiny elevator |
table at our dinner restaurant |
sides |
kimbap |
kimchi soup! |