We walked down to the port to check out the fishermen. It was funny to see these Hamburg Sur shipping crates because I had just seen the exact same ones in Busan a week before, or at least ones that looked just like them. I thought I felt pretty far away from Korea here. When I got back to the hotel, I checked a map. Within 100 miles, I was on the opposite point of the globe from where I had been in Korea, basically as far away as you could get while staying on planet earth. There's actually a neat web site that you can use to quickly determine what is on the opposite side of the globe from any given other point: http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html (credit to Jesse for the find). I bet if you asked a survey of Americans a majority would believe if you dug a hole from their house in America straight through the earth, you'd end up in China. Not so. With the unlikely exception of hitting a small insignificant island like French Southern & Antarctic Lands (mostly in Canada anyway), you'd end up in the southern Indian ocean, and quickly drown. So, anyway Uruguay and Korea are roughly opposite on the globe. As are Indonesia and Colombia. Ecuador and Singapore. New Zealand and Spain. Hawaii and Botswana. Fiji and Mali (both incidentally 2 of the 10 4-letter countries in the world). Santiago and Xi'an province, China. Bermuda and Perth, Australia. Paraguary and Taiwan. Beijing and Viedma, Argentina. The Chilean Fjords and central Mongolia. Ushuaia and middle-of-nowhere Russia. It's a fun site to play around with.