Pusan, South Korea

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We woke this morning in Pusan in South Korea. The city has 4Mil people and is spread right around the harbours (they have couple of them). It’s obviously a major seaport because the fish market was so vast. In the market freshly caught fish were displayed next to live fish in tanks - all sorts - the area was spread over quite a few acres. It was clean there but not so nice unless of course you don’t mind seeing live fish everywhere. We moved up the road to the “International Market” which was mostly in a concoction of crowded laneways and cross-laneways. The market was mostly for clothes and the girls found some bargains including some special clothes for our four legged girls back home. Interestingly, amongst the hustle and bustle fruit vendors pushed open two wheeled trailers along the laneways. One of those guys even had a battery powered PR system announcing his coming! Oh yes, motor scooters use the footpaths in Pusan and also the market laneways and it gets a little un-nerving at times - you get two seconds warning in there when you hear an exhaust and you better move over quickly! Pusan has a sky tower on a hill in the middle of the city and we took the elevator ride to the top. All I could see was cluster living down below with mostly high rise appartment buildings. Pusan isn’t like Japanese cities ie its noisier, the cars blow their horns, the city isn't dirty but its not spotlessly clean either and there is still NO graffiti anywhere to see - Melbourne please take note! More people smoke on the streets in Pusan than they do in Japan and Japanese street smoking I think, is more prevalent than it is in Australia (just my opinion). Surprise of surprises - after about one hours sailing out of Pusan, my phone picked up a signal at sea! surely the ship was relaying the local land signal or is the South Korean phone system that good

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Fish Market at Pusan
This place was vast