Girls Meditation-Yoga Temple Stay Weekend

Two of my girl friends and I visited a 4th living in Korea for a long weekend.  We flew into Busan and took a bus and taxi to the Golgusa Temple.  We picked it initially because of all the activities it had thinking we wouldn't be bored, but in retrospect it was exhausting!  4 AM wake up by chanting, just enough time to walk to the top of the mountain for 4:30 AM chanting, followed by 5AM walking meditation, and breakfast at 6.  Yoga at 8:30 and 108 bows - prostrations at 10 AM.  Lunch and afternoon meditation followed by Sunmundo martial arts training.  By the 2nd day we literally were looking for a spa.  Because of our outfits - orange and brown, the rigorous schedule and getting shsh'd for talking at times or put back in line, plus the dormitory bulk-style kimchi - we had a lot of prison references.  We joked that it probably took a lot of cigarettes to make our spa appointments and leave the compound. 

We spent a couple days in monk training, then took a bus to Daegu to our friend's gorgeous city-view 2000 SF apartment.  Spent Saturday night going shopping and exploring Daegu and flew back Sunday. 

Here are a few pics!  I'd always wanted to do a temple stay, but Jeff thought it all sounded like torture.  He was happy when we arranged with 'Moon' to do this without him.