the tower is a 120 meter vertical projection in the heart of yongdusan park. from its apex, one is offered a striking view of the surrounding cityscape.
we spent the better part of a day getting out to the park, enduring a cab ride across town through peak traffic; a grueling trek up a winding mountain trail with children occupying hips, backs, shoulders and arms; a strained foreign language ticket purchase and an overcrowded elevator ride wearing a baby backpack which caused me to grossly misjudge my spatial displacement; plowing over women and children, tearing through flesh and sinew like so much tissue paper.
all to take this single photograph...
...and then chase pigeons around for two and a half hours...
on the way home we stopped by the trendy shopping district near the nam po dang marketplace, where you can find any product normally made by u.s. companies in the philippines and sold for 7,000 times the production cost; made by korean bootleggers and sold domestically for a quarter the normal retail value. pen and eli posed for some pictures and very quickly went from cute...
...to silly...
...to "whose kids are those?"
4 comments:
You guys are so lucky! A lot of pigeon fanciers go through life without ever getting the chance to chase a Korean pigeon. This is something Eli and Pen will be bragging about to their playground peers for years to come.
The picture at the top of the tower is so funny. Pen looks terrified. I love it.
bames,
actually, the tower is a big tourist destination- i think most of the pigeons were chinese and japanese.
loving all the pictures from your trip! kids make everything and adventure!!!
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