Day 4: Jongmyo
By Day 4, I was still waking up early around 5-6AM in the morning and it felt really great to be up at that time. Every morning after waking, I’d lie around in bed for a little while longer, get up and do some exercises in my room and then go out on to the veranda/balcony. I always peeled back the window and screen and leaned out to breathe the morning air. I would also just stare out in to the distance for a while and focus my gaze on far off objects like the Namsan Tower or Mt. Inwangsan. On this morning just before 7AM, the haze was mixing with the morning sun. Despite the appearance of haze sometimes very early in the mornings (the haze would be gone shortly afterwards) and despite much how I remembered Seoul to be smoggy and polluted (I had visited prior during the summer months), the air always seemed crisp and clean during my visit in October (at least I hope it was ^^). Every morning like clock work I could hear the collective footsteps of a nearby local military reg...