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| "Love Motel" lane |
On the weekend just gone Brenton and I went for a our first weekend away to Gyeongju. Gyeongju is known as "the museum without walls" and has more tombs, temples, pagodas, and ruins than anywhere else in Korea. We arrived on Friday night in the dark, but luckily there were about 1,000 neon "hotel" signs right near the bus terminal.
The first place we passed had little pictures of topless women on the step, so assuming it was a brothel we kept walking. Then the next and the next had the same pictures. I decided that these must be "love motels". I had read and heard about love motels before coming to Korea. Lonely planet describes them as being the best value for money accommodation in Korea.
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Tombs in the background. They built a wooden coffin chamber
and then made a hill of rocks on top of it and then soil and
grass over the top of that |
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So, thankfully, I worked up the courage to walk past the topless women and in to the very dimly lit reception area. Love motels are awesome! Sure there are some weird things like the complimentary condoms, broken English about love on the ceiling and the free soft porn channel on the cable TV. But there was also a spa, giant TV, room about double the size of my apartment, computer with free internet, 80 cable channels and everything was brand new! All that for less than $50 per night. I am now seriously considering moving in to a love motel instead of my apartment!
Our weekend in Gyeongju was great, apart from spending the first hour lost on Saturday morning, we did a lot of walking and saw a lot of tombs, temples and ancient artifacts.
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| Anapji Pond |
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| Bulguk-sa |
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| Seokguram Grotto |
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