Cheonggyecheon Stream

Well hello and welcome to my new and improved blog!  Its really not that new and improved, but my friend did tell me an easier way to put up photos!  Sorry that it has been a long time since the last posting, but I have been very sick and work was very hectic this week.  I have about four posting that I'll hopefully be putting up this week.

  So back in September (ya a really long time ago now), my friend, Lauren, and I went on a weekend excursion to the Cheonggyecheon Stream.  I was really excited to go, because at this point I was getting a bit overwhelmed with the city life and just needed to be around something a bit more natural.  The stream itself isn't all that natural.  In fact, the Cheonggyecheon stream is man-made with some natural things residing in in.  The nice thing about the stream is that it is actually below the city street, so you can go to this nice natural (looking) place and not have to travel out of the city! 


On the way to the stream, we took a wrong way out of the subway and headed to another nice area of Seoul where we ran into these cool statues.

These statues are of a Korean family, but it looks like they have been compressed down to about 2 1/2 feet tall!  It kind of looks like one of those funhouse mirrors if you were a Korean 40 year old painted gray.


So we finally found our way and found the beginning of the stream.  It starts out with this odd looking structure (sorry it's sideways!):

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We then head on to the area where the water starts flowing into the stream:

The walk itself was very nice with some great cultural things to do.  I was able to sit in on a little drum circle thing.  And was able to watch some older women do some traditional dances:

There was even a clown there who was making balloon animals:

The walk goes on for quite a while and eventually goes into the Han River, the large river that runs through Seoul.  There was also some very nice art that was decorated on the sides of the river.  This one shows the precession of a parade with the Emperor and Empress:

Here is some of the art that the public can put up along the stream:

Overall the day was great!  It was sunny and a good walking temperature.  Here is one last picture of the stream as we headed further away from the main areas: