Today, being our final day in Ulsan, we got to do some pretty cool things! We started out our day by heading back to Busan to visit the dragon palace temple, which is called Hae Dong Yong Gung Sa. The direct translation is East Sea Dragon Palace Temple. It is a very cool temple that is bulit into the side of a mountain.
The gate to the Dragon Temple
A view of the temple as we walked up to it. That is the East Sea on the left
One of the many dragons that were around the temple.
Then we walked from there to an aquarium/fish museum. It highlighted old fishing techniques as well as housed a lot of the native fish. Towards the end of the aquarium, there was a tank full of doctor fish that we were able to put our fingers in. These Doctor Fish came and nibbled at our fingers. They eat the dead skin off of them, basically its a really weird feeling exfoliating thing.
A picture of the Doctor Fish. Sorry for the poor quality, it came from a phone.
The next item for the day was lunch, which was not too exciting. Afterwards we headed back towards Ulsan, but stopped before we got there to visit a pottery village. This village specializes in Ong-gi pottery. Which is making these very large urns that were used for a variety of things, including taking baths, or storing food for long periods of time. While we were in this village, we also got to make our own Ong-gi, or at least make something that looked kinda close, or not. We just got to have some fun making some pottery.
Mackenzie molding her clay.
We got back to the dorms and prepared for our presentation we were giving to the head of the NAOE department, along with one of the other professors. It went a lot better than we expected it to, and Professor Ahn said it was the best presentations he has seen in all his years with this program. So that was really exciting to hear. They then treated us to a really nice farewell dinner, which was really nice, but also bittersweet, because it means we are going to have to say goodbye to our new friends.
It is going to be tough tomorrow to be saying goodbye to our friends that we have spent every waking moment with for the past three weeks. They have been fantastic hosts to us and have provided us with so many good memories that will never be forgotten!
I also want to thank you guys for reading this and keeping up with it! I had a great time writing this and I hope it was just as fun to read! Until our next adventure!
- Jake
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