Tourist Sites

It was May 2, 2005 that I have joined Indonesian community in AIT having tour to Pataya. After visiting the maritim museum in Burapha university and chinese three kingdom palace, we stoped the place where there is a big picture of Buddha. They created that picture on the slope of Kau Si Jan hill. From the story that I heard, first they make an almost flat slope by crushing the stone of the small hill. Then, by laser, they created the picture schetch and finalized by giving 'gold'-like metal on it. So, it will create a drawing-line similar to cartoon. I am not sure whether it is really gold metal or not, as I know it mixed between some metals.

In front of the hill, you can enjoy the big park where you can take a rest or make some picture with the background of buddha.

Phitsanulok city is located in the northern part of Thailand but still quite far from Chiang Mai. It is the capital of Phitsanulok provice. It was a part of Thailand which is famous due to the best management for the solid waste treatment. Actually, I came there because of that. Although it is a capital of the province, Phitsanulok is very silent but the people are very nice. There is Nan river which separates the city into two parts. This river, mostly in the night, becomes rather crowded as many tourisms or people get together for having dinner or just to visit to view the night of the river. When I visited there, I still found some people who stayed and lived on the bout.

The main view of this city is Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat, known locally simply as Wat Yai (the big temple). This is old (built on 1357) and very big temple, beautiful budha temple. There are also some other temples, spread around the city, and some museums which some belong to private, such us bird museum collection, Buddha statue museum, historical museum of daily life.

I give it that subtitle because, frankly speaking, I have no opinion if I have to stay here, in this city. Oke, nice and calm, but too silent and I am not a retired man who has to stay alone, ha ha ha .. Sure, if you like to stay or visit becautiful calm place, this place is exactly perfect for you. Actully I did not spend the night time in the downtown of the city which probably more crowded area. Again, it is just my imagination.

There is a bautiful river across Gongju area which you can spend the whole day for cruising it. Probably, the most 'interesting' view is the temple and tomb located in the Gongju park. In here, you can go insite the 'underground' tomb or take some pictures in front of the temples (??) there.
Oke, for me, a transit city .. :_D

It was 26-28 June 2003.

Gyeongju is located in the south-east part of Korea peninsula. This probably the recommended place to go when you visit to south-east part of Korea. This place is rich of Korea cultural and artifacts from very ancient time, such as neolitic age, bronze age, and beginning of iron age, as this place is old Silla capital kingdom. Silla is a part of trilogy kingdoms story of Korea history. To find the complete information, you can visit the Gyeongju National museum. There are also some small original-like 'stupa's and big bell from that periode.

How about tasting the original tea of Gyeongju? Yap, this region also has a special traditional tea ceremony. 15 minutes just for drinking a cup of tea! for me, it will be less than 1 minute and one more minute for another 2-3 cups more. ke ke ..
Also still in this region, there is Buddha temple, Bulguksa means land of happiness. It is a temple complex with some pagoda and old buiding, also small river flows there. Silent and nice.

Do you know 'hyundai'? A giant corporation from South Korea. Hyundai is one of the top company in Korea besides LG, KIA, and Samsung. And Ulsan is where hyundai company is. As the basis of Hyundai corp., sometimes this city is called as hyundai city. It is an industrial city and some other bigs company are there also, for example SK petroleum refinery plant, polimer, and so on. I have a chance to enter the Hyundai heavy industries and when you entered it you have to be guided. Many large ships being built in the dry docks. Hyndai ship is one of the topmost ship building industries in the world with around, it said, around 60 produced big ships per year.

Near Hyundai, there is an oil refinery, SK Corporation, which is the first oil refining company of Korea and has led the general energy and chemical industry in Korea. They also produced some basic chemical for polimer industry, such as propilen. The refined oil and products are exported to China. Do you believe that if all the pipelines are put together end-to-end then the entire length of pipelines will be able to reach the moon. That the officer said.