Day 4: Tue 5 Sep - Hapcheon-Gun to Gyeongju
The bed was lumpy and hard and there was a smoker somewhere close to my room and I'm sure I had more smoke in my room than they had in theirs. Then I decided to have a coughing fit! Then my guts started to do flick-flacks, and methane production was at its highest! So, after one of the very worst night’s sleep ever, breakfast was at 7:30am. The coffee was ok but had to use powdered creamer, some of which was so old it had caked and was rock hard. We had toast, butter and jam, and the scrambled eggs with fruit - tomato, pineapple, apple and kiwi fruit. That was it! We came to the conclusion the hotel does not have a lot of westerners as guests, or any guests for that matter. We left the hotel 9:50am and headed back to the temple we were at last night to see it during the day and also to visit Tripitaka Koreana which is a Korean collection of the Tripiṭaka (Buddhist scriptures , and the Sanskrit word for "three baskets"), carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks in the ...