Busan Holiday Part Three (The Tower, The Market, and The Penis Creatures)

Ah Busan. It feels like an eon ago, because it was. No goats to eat, or beer to be drank, on this final day. Only towers to climb, and fish markets to experience. Hence this post is genuinely all pictures, with the odd caption.

The main reason for this, is that my good friend Alan "Northy" North has landed on Korean shores, and there has been, and will be, much more comical hi-jinx to report.

For example, Northy unleashed the most fantastically exaggerated bow ever seen, which my next post will illustrate in an artistic reconstuction, pending Northy's approval. Actually, sod the approval, it's an absolutely legendary maneouvre and I'd be doing the world a terrible disservice by not sharing the hilarity.











Busan Tower, in Yongdulsan Park. Nice views of the city, although the crazy heat made it a bit hazy.




Yongdulsan Park had quite a few interesting statues, including this quality oriental dragon, and Admiral Yi. History tells us, that Admiral Yi was "a hard bastard".


I bet you didn't believe me! As you can see we either have some bizarre sea-creatures, or some severed wangers. Looking at them, your first impression would certainly be the latter, which makes it all the more surreal and discomforting when you see them squirming around on their own. It was honestly like a basket of demonically possessed chopped cocks. Or a group audition for an X-Rated Addams Family movie. That's enough of that.....what other delights and treasures did we spot at Jagalchi Fish Market?


No idea. But they do not look tasty.


These things hanging up were bat skeletons. Lord knows why.


A bowl of hacked off chicken feet. This pretty much reads like a Witch's shopping list I guess.



As previously mentioned, Busan is a huge port city, meaning there is an abundance of Russian sailors, seafood restaurants, fishing trawlers, and dodgy "ladies of the night".


The woman above was very kind looking. Like the other 100, I politely declined to chomp into any of her fish. Most of these stalls are run by the famous "Jagalchi Fish Women", who apparently have almost their own dialect. This was fairly obvious from the constant rasping, guttural noises emanating from their throats. Charlotte "Voice of an Angel" Church they are not.




A tempting "Pick 'N Mix" selection. Much better than chocolate tools, kola kubes, and flying saucers.

Yum.