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While my mom and aunt were chilling out at the patio, I quickly made my way across Pyeonghwa Park and headed towards the long zig-zagging set of stairs leading to Haneul Park. Haneul Park is an elevated, hill top park that is built on what was once a landfill site for garbage.  It’s hard to believe they converted it into such a beautiful park which affords not only sites from within the park but also the ability to look down at the rest of Seoul from high up above.  “Haneul” in Korean is the word for “sky”, hence the need to climb all those stairs to get one step closer to the stars.  Considering how many stairs there were, the climb wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.  Everyone was moving at a leisurely pace up and down the stairs and at the end of every flight, there was a lookout area that you could stop and rest if  you needed to catch your breath.  It was amazing to see that there were some young women in high heels making their way...

As I had spent the first 2 weeks travelling on my own seeing what I wanted to see, today was more about going somewhere my mom wanted to visit and spending time with her and my aunts. My mom’s knee was a much better now so she wanted to see some of Seoul and because she’s really into nature and serene and quiet environments, we did some brainstorming about where to go. My aunt had gone to World Cup Park and atop Haneul Park before so she suggested we go there. That was fine with me because it was somewhere I wanted to check out also and the weather was perfect today. Due to my cousin and niece’s visit , my visit to the World Cup Stadium earlier in my trip ended short and without seeing the surrounding parks. At the time, the weather was extremely hot so it was doubtful whether I really would have seen much of the parks anyways. We headed out to the park via cab after eating lunch at home as it was our intention to get there after the peak sun time. The walk to the main street where w...