{"id":7790,"date":"2016-09-02T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7790"},"modified":"2018-07-31T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:53:07","slug":"one-week-in-south-korea-part-2-the-secret-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7790","title":{"rendered":"One week in South Korea \u2013 part 2 – The Secret Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My first sunrise in Seoul – from my hotel room using the Olympus mZD 7-14mm f\/2.8 ultra-wide angle zoom lens<\/a><\/p>\n

Our first morning in Seoul was a hot 34degC partly sunny, humid day with little wind as we headed off to a guided tour of The Secret Garden in Changdeokgung Palace<\/a> – a lovely relaxing walk with plenty of shade and beautiful little vistas.<\/p>\n

The local Koreans seem to love to hire traditional apparel and wander the palace grounds and taking selfies, and on some I was asked to assist and others I asked them for permission to take an even better shot with a proper camera and lens – my trusty Olympus OM-D E-M1<\/a> Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> mated with the Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 lens<\/a> while I also carried a E-M5<\/a> with Olympus mZD 7-14mm f\/2.8 ultra-wide angle zoom lens<\/a> for the occasional wider perspectives.<\/p>\n

It was a great introduction to Korean culture, although unfortunately much of these palace structures were severely damaged during the early 20th century Japanese occupation.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in my last post, the Korean people I met were lovely, quiet, generous, respectful and honest looking people with no evidence of pick pocketers, violence or aggression.<\/p>\n

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Out of a population of 50 million, there are apparently only some 130,000 muslim people, and these are nearly all foreigners.<\/p>\n

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A modern Korean lady on the garden tour.<\/p>\n

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Yours truly helping out a couple of ladies with their “selfie” shots.<\/p>\n

Of course there are hundreds of shots one can achieve of the gardens and palaces which I will not post here apart from these:<\/p>\n

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My crazy tour buddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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