Masan, South Korea.

Last city in Korea: Masan, near Busan, on the southern coast. I was only there for two days, but I still got to experience a fair amount.

According to the sign, “The construction of the Paryongsan Stone Pagodas was begun on March 23, 1993, by Yi Sam-jong, a resident of Yangdeok-dong, who was moved to pity by the tragic situation of families divided by the Korean War. Since then, he has continued to build stone pagodas to soothe the grief of the divided families, praying for family reunions and Korean reunification.”

There were trinkets and figurines in front of some of the pagodas.

One of the things I really liked about Korea is that they had public exercise equipment everywhere – even on hiking paths up on the mountain.

We happened upon the Western Apache Bar and just had to go in. Oh, the romanticizing of other countries’ native societies.

Another Korean barbecue, this time all duck. A lot of the restaurants specialize in just one kind of meat, and they’ll often have a picture, either real or cartoon, of the specific animal on the outside of the restaurant. This was also the first restaurant I went to that was traditional enough that you had to take your shoes off and sit on the floor.

More exercise equipment, this time in a park.

Rice wine [in the pot and cup] and bar snacks – not pictured are the little dried-out fish that you eat whole like peanuts. I wasn’t far enough on my path to fish appreciation to try them.