Korea and Kyoto

[cos]

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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[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I was in Kyoto for a bit last year. We went to the Kyoto aquarium, which was a very nice aquarium, the really big central shrine that half of was being restored while we were there. We visited a restored Yamaboko float exhibit, part of the < href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamahoko">Gion Matsuri festival parade.

There is the Sagano bamboo forest in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto that looked absurdly pretty, but we weren't able to get there.

The Kyoto photos should start here. Beware, lots of fish from the aquarium. Kyoto Photos (http://smu.gs/1a8zU12)

Edited to add: Oops, put in the wrong photo link. Sorry.