Let’s just say… we will not b visiting Seoul for a long time
Once again, BH planned the itinerary while I asked ard and got many response from helpful friends with regards to places of interest. The itinerary was basically “paper talk strategy/soldier” ( translate to chinese) – we didn’t follow it.. Basically, we did whatever we felt like doing everyday.. haha
As for shopping, it’s NOTHING like Gmarket 🙁 Boo… I thnk Gmarket shopping is even better… so… we didn’t buy much…
ok fine..Maybe it was just me – I don’t watch Korean drama.. the only Korean drama which I watched + completed watching is the Korean F4: Boys Before Flowers. That’s y I didn’t appreciate the place as much as others 🙁 NO! I’m not saying Korea is not fun BUT rather..I am not FUN enough for Korea
Places we went ( just pictures – can’t rem the name of the places)
A palace near to downtown area… it’s interesting to see the contrast between urban buildings and ancient palace
Joined a DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) Tour
Below shows picture explaining abt the 3rd tunnel, can’t tk photo of the real thing BUT the walk down was very steep and slippery! If u r tall, u will need to bend your back for the whole journey!! hehe.. good to be short!
N seoul Tower > Not a good day to go 🙁 It was foggy and we didn’t see a thing
The statue right in front of the palace
Free chocolates given by our Doulos Hotel on our last day. Nice hotel, reasonable price with free breakfast. We had a great stay BUT there was only 1 girl at the front desk who cld speak better English..
Hangang River fountain show – the timing on the website is not accurate. Luckily, we were early!! we managed to listen and see this for abt 10mins before it ends
The walk to see this bridge water fountain was tortuous! We walked a super far + it was sooo cold!! Not fun!
Finally flew to Jeju after 5 days in Seoul.. we had a whole lot of luggage so we had no choice but to deposit some of our items at Gimpo airport storage room (paid US$45 for 2 days, 2 luggage)
First view of the sunset outside our hotel. It was cold and v windy!
Diana intro. a local guide to bring us sightseeing BUT we called him and he was booked for the day. Sob! had no choice but to join the tour which our hotel had contact with
so.. the tour had 10 tourist and out of the 10… 6 were singaporeans! haha.. so interesting! maybe it was a blessing in disguise.. we thought our trip to Korea was screwed up.. BUT at least we made friends!!
So the tour brought us to Sunrise peak – beautiful place!
Pic below shows the House of Female Divers from the peak
walked down nearer to the coast and saw…….
a kind man offered to treat us to the LIVE seafood he bought.. haha.. but we rejected him.. it’s toooooooo RAW
There was suppose to be a performance BUT we missed it because our tour needs to go on.. sigh!
The rest of the tour was not worth mentioning.. until the last part of the tour, we went to a cave Lava tube and we walked a distance in the dark & wet column to see the ‘crystallised’ lava ! Pls pardon me if I use the wrong terms. This lava tube is BETTER than the one in Hawaii, Big Island
Here’s a picture of us with the lava
Ended the night by having dinner with our new found Singaporean Tour mates 🙂 It wouldn’t have been enjoyable if we haven’t met them!
This ends my Korea trip entry! And I am so gonna join a tour if I am going to Korea next time!