Seoul Grand Park

We took the long subway ride to Seoul Grand Park one sunny afternoon. We didn't really know what was there...we had heard a lot of different things. We ended up being both disappointed and happily surprised.

The entrance of the park had a lot of beautiful flowers and a very fierce-looking tiger. His growl was much worse than his bite!

We were overwhelmed by how natural the park was and also by its' size, but we were a little sad that it was more of a zoo than a park.

One of the good views of this enormous park. The hills in the distance are where many people go to do a little hiking.

In the far distance, you can see the amusement park....which we were both too scared of to go anywhere near!

This is the gondola that we rode up through the park. We thought that we were going to be able to see lots of animals from here but we could only see the lions. We were thankful though not to have to walk both to and from the zoo! It would have been quite the hike.

The gondola gave us a good chance to checkout the spectacular arial view of the park! The triangular shaped object in the center is the bird habitat (more pictures of that to come).

The lazy lions: shot from the gondola.

This little guy and a couple of his friends were putting on a great little show for us, swimming in circles and coming up just in time to take a peek at us! Maybe it was their fist time seeing pasty people too!

You can't really tell from this picture, but this guy was huge! Perhaps the largest sea lion that California had to offer. Anyways, he was massive and everytime he came out, water poured over the sides of the tank!

Yes, that's an elephant's butt! And..who knew that pheasants came in colors...the golden pheasant is especially radiant!

Some kind of goose and a herin, I think, hanging out in their cool home (shown below).

This place was soo cool that normal everyday birds, that didn't belong in a zoo, would sneak in to fly around and eat some free food!

Pelicans are hands down the best bird that there is. Pelicans sure look like the birds that deliver babies, are we sure that it was storks?!

And here you can see that even muir cats have jobs. Clearly the one at the top left is a soldier and maybe the bottom one is a disinterested massage therapist?!

There were a ton of giraffes and they were pretty close to the fence, so good for close up pics but bad for personal giraffe space:(

Sadly, in this picture, you can't tell, but we learned that when these pretty pink birds are running around frantically, they have to move their wings up and down for balance. So, it looks like they are going to take off but they can't. Maybe you had to be there but when a bunch of them do it at the same time, they look really funny.

Us taking our chances to get a close up with the very intimidating plastic tiger

with razor blade teeth.