Yes, it’s fairly grim, but checking out cemeteries while travelling is oddly compelling.
I know, more cemeteries? Weird, right? Well what can I say, they’re entrancing.
I was wandering around after visiting the Kiyomizu Temple (which was really nice, but completely overrun with tourists), and I stumbled across an absolutely amazing cemetery.
Walking around cemeteries is becoming a bit of a theme on this blog, isn’t it? What can I say? It seems like a weirdly dark thing to do on a trip (and yeah, it kinda is), but it’s also really interesting.
Commemorating the many soldiers from throughout the world who gave their lives during the Korean War, the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan is actually the only United Nations cemetery in the world.
The Vienna Central Cemetery is actually one of the largest cemeteries in the world. Going to a graveyard isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you travel to a new city, but there’s something grimly fascinating about wandering around a cemetery so large.