Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t know tombs can be so picturesque. There are restaurants and cafes popular just because they offer a good view of these tombs.
According to wikipedia: “Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla (57 BC – 935 AD), which ruled about two-thirds of the Korean peninsula at its height between the 7th and 9th centuries, for close to one thousand years.” Which makes the tombs around one to two thousand years old. Pretty surreal.
Gyeongju was chosen as one of our destinations because people on reddit kept saying it was one of their favourite cities – see social media is actually useful. It is confusing to see modernity housed in traditional architecture. Out of the tourist area there are regular buildings – except that just when we least expected it there are again some tombs and ruins. I can no longer tell which are actual ruins and which are reconstructed.
I am not that into history, but I appreciate seeing artefacts of humanity. How different people of different times lived, and how they died. Being from a very built-up dense city like singapore, I enjoyed peering into the distance anywhere at gyeongju and seeing majestic mountains.
A few people have commented that the photos I share are very different from the parts of the world they live in, and that is why I love the internet, and also why I share these photos. I too, enjoy seeing a world different from mine, through your eyes. So I hope to bring a little of my world, to you.