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| At Gweoreung Tomb, some kids relished having their picture taken.
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| Others were paying attention to the teacher -- or not.
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| Even adults didn't devote full attention to the tour guide describing the statue of the Arabian man.
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| Waiting for noon to bong the gong.
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| The penultimate step in the gong bonging dance.
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| On the trail to Seokguram Grotto.
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| Out lady of the microphone holds forth upon the Grotto.
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| The serene Buddha behind glass in the grotto. The grotto is not natural; rocks were fitted closely together to make it.
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| They raise money by selling roof tiles on which you write your own message of peace.
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| Your tile is not alone.
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| Many dragonflies basked or flitted. I've not seen them in the States for many years.
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| Lunch was fish stew. At left is a professor from the University of Pennsylvania. At right is Grant, a rancher from New Zealand.
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| Visitors to King Munmu's Underwater Tomb--the rocky island just offshore.
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| These visitors wanted me in their picture.
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| A ball of tar.
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| One of the two pagodas remaining at the Gameunsaji temple site.
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| View from the temple of the road, the rice fields, and the mountains beyond.
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| You dine not at these Kimchee pots, but rather at a nice restaurant just out of view to the right.
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| Our destination is the rock-hewn Buddha under the glass roof, far above.
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| The temple halfway up the hill.
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| Getting own was no snap either.
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| A cave temple just beneath the main Buddha.
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| Gyoengju seems far away from the Buddha.
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| I made it. And I got back, too.
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| Others had their own ideas of what shots to take.
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