We are in the middle of week-long celebrations marking Buddha's Birthday, and we headed up to Seoul on Saturday evening to watch the "Lotus Lantern Parade". This is held every year, and is an amazing parade to watch. Many of the people in the parade hold a lantern, and it seems that different groups have different themes for their lanterns. Most groups were from temples, but there were also some schools and other groups that didn't identify themselves in English, so we don't know. Many people were wearing the traditional Korean Hanbok (clothing), and like all celebration parades, there was much laughter and enjoyment.
We met our friends, the Freemans, in Seoul, visited the lovely Tapgol park, where we saw a 10-storey, 12-metre high stone pagoda built in 1467, and enclosed by a glass case to protect it. It is classified as National Treasure no.2.
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| All over Korea, paper lanterns have been up for weeks! |
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| Ted, Pam, Sam, Leanne, Alice and Russ |
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| Leanne and Pam. The stone pagoda is in the background, behind glass. |
We found plastic chairs lining the street, ready for the parade.
Here are some of the wonderful lanterns we saw. All of them are made out of paper, even the large ones!
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