Korea and Kyoto

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On Tuesday I'm going to Korea for two weeks, with a 2.5-day trip to Kyoto in there. Visiting estheruth who lives in the far south of Korea, and my cousin Hadas is joining me from Israel for Kyoto and about half the Korea time. May get to see japlady in Seoul as well. Korea will include Seoul, Mokpo, Jeju, and probably some other place (Gwangju maybe?). Got any tips about Kyoto or Korea, or favorite things in either place, or people you know who I might want to meet? Or people I know and don't realize are there?

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Kyoto is a beautiful place; lots of places to visit; I've been there several times, but it was a while ago so I don't remember any details of where I visited.

Wear shoes that are easy to take off because and put on because you have to do it many times. (And don't forget to retrieve them as I did earlier this year when leaving a temple in Myanmar.) I remember staying in a Ryokan - switch from street shoes to supplied slippers when you enter the building. switch to bare or socked feet in your room, wear the bathroom slippers in the bathroom, and my room opened to the garden where there was set of garden slippers for visiting it.