Day two

The next day was intended for the next best thing to do in Seoul: shopping. And so we started from Namdaemun at noon, moved over to Myeong dong in the afternoon and ended up in Dongdaemun in the evening. Namdaemun is the fabulous street market, where we ended up buying everything from sweets to scissors to backpacks to... We were quite surprised to see, however, that we could also have bought living turtles. Assuring ourselves, that they were probably intended
as pets, we may yet have missed a specialty of the local cuisine so far.
In the evening, Dongdaemun presented itself in beautiful winter decoration and even revealed a fully restored city gate, that had so far been under construction.
All in all it was very much worthwhile to have arrived early.