The beginning was spent in Seoul: dining, riding subways, people watching, and discovering unusually housed goldfish.
Looming at Seoul's northern fringe stands Dobongsan. My limbs still ache from the climb but the view from the peak was beyond anything I've ever seen. A temple stands halfway up the peak, flanked by an infantry of Buddhas and guarded by a dichromatic* feline.
* such a Scrabble word
