May 3rd-5th, Saturday-Monday. Monday being "Children's Day" so we had the day off. Yesterday, May 8th, was Parent's Day (instead of Father's or Mother's Day). In Japan they also have separate boys and girls days instead of just children's day. Well, because of the long weekend, I went to Gyeongju, the old Silla Kingdom capital of South Korea. It is a city marked as an important cultural heritage site, so no new buildings can be built over a certain height (5 stories I think). It is a small city with a lot of visible tombs dotting the landscape both in-between buildings and on the outside of town. It is a little bit of a tourist town, but mostly for other koreans as all the foreigners I saw seemed to be staying at the same hostel I
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