Day 4: Changdeokgung
I walked North along the West side of Jongmyo to get to Changdeokgung and came across some outdoor exercise machines. While travelling through Seoul, I found many places, mostly in parks but sometimes along paths like this one, where outdoor exercise machines were installed for people to use. I saw a number of different exercise machines throughout and most of them were of low-impact designed more to loosen or warm up the body. The ones I saw here included a sit-up bench, a suspended walker and a bench-press like machine that used your own weight as the counter weight. When you grabbed the bars and pushed forward, the seat would move up in the proportional amount. I continued North until I finally got to the entrance of the Royal Palace of Changdeokgung (or Changdeok Palace). When it came to ranking sites, my Lonely Planet Seoul City Guide book ranked Gyeongbokgung ahead of Changdeokgung. So before I even got here, I felt like this palace was somehow not going to be ...