Korea 2011

Day One

Had breakfast next to a beautiful sunrise :)

Ride from Airport to Blue Pearl

Took a bus from the airport to our hotel straight which cost 15000won per pax and the journey was around an hour or so. Afterwards we checked in to Hotel Blue Pearl in the afternoon and it was not bad at all! I just realised that I didn’t take a photo of the room lol, but it was really not bad. Even though it isn’t very near the city, it is still quite convenient to travel around via the subway (within walkable distance from the hotel). It’s a business hotel so there were cheap room service food plus computor with fast Internet connection. Not forgetting the huge plasma TV and I absolutely love the bathtub ‘cos it’s a mini-jacuzzi!! Hahaha I take my time just soaking in it and watching shen diao on my ipod. Shiok :)

View from hotel corridor

The two bears bro bought for x and I :D

Caffebene red bean dessert

Next, bro recommended us a red bean dessert which was awesome! I’m not a fan of red bean (I don’t eat 红豆冰) but I found it so yummy. Shaved ice in a cup topped with red bean paste and served with rice cake and almond flakes. Went to take the train to Seoul tower after that for some sight-seeing.

Mum and I outside the place we had dessert

En-route to subway station (Hotel Blue Pearl is right there on the left)

So comforting to eat hot food in the freezing weather :)

Koreans are so healthy!! A very major generalisation here but let me try to back up my inference. Subway stations have very little/no escalators. To change trains at an interchange station, we had to walk quite a distance and take stairs. What I like about their subway stations is that they have shops selling shoes, clothes, food etc inside the paid areas of the station which makes walking from place to place less boring!

Market within a train

I was so fascinated by this, transforming a train into a market during off-peak hours is brilliant.

Tickets to cable car

Finally reached Seoul Tower!

I have never been able to appreciate those landmark towers like those at Beijing/Macau so I wasn’t particularly interested when I was at the Seoul Tower. Nevertheless, took some nice photos while I was there. We visited the Teddy Bear museum and also walked around at the top.  It was freezing there though that day it was -5 or -7 deg Celsius!

At the entrance

Teddies

Strum strum strum ~

Dancing bear lool

Favourite bear!

So cute!

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This wishing tree is like the love-locks on the bridge at Paris. People write love messages or wishes on the lock, lock it onto the wire and throw the key down the mountain to signify eternal togetherness <3

Some other photos taken at the area:

Mummy and I

What a lovely present right...

Bro and I on the bus

Next: shopping!

So many Korean girls are wearing these :O

That potato thing that KLP has and I personally think the one at KLP tastes better!

Vitamin handcream

Shaped bokeh using my little tool :)

Yummy dinner

Day One ended with a short walk around the city area just looking around. It was very cold at night so my fingers were freezing while taking photos and the melted snow which became black from dirt on the streets made it hard to walk. Nevertheless, I had a nice time going around with my camera. Just the kind of life I like.

Day Two

Gyeongbokgung Palace

Started Day Two by going to Gyeongbokgung Palace. This place very much reminded me about Beijing’s Forbidden City with all the frozen lakes, Chinese-looking structures, those big spaces around for the kings and queens to chill etc.

Three of us at GBG

Ice-skating rink hahaha

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This place is closed to public but we were too curious what was inside LOL

First attempt at lens flare

Here comes my favouritest meal in Seoul..

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MUKSHIDONNA!

Seafood hotpot

It’s basically this spicy hotpot with seafood and ramen instead that tastes soo miraculously yummy together.

At the end, they will take your pot with all the leftover sauce inside and make fried rice. (Make sure you order the fried rice!!) It was heavenly <3

The awesome fried rice

After that I forgot where we went to, but along the streets we:

Had green tea ice-cream

Saw a handsome busker who sings really well

Got free Toblerone from Toblerone mascots which looked.. big and clumsy but really cute

Had more street food

Later on we had spicy chicken for dinner! Bro said that this place has many branches and is very popular so we decided to try it.. No regrets as well. To think about it, I don’t think I had a single bad meal in Korea. Everything tasted so good.

Mix mix mix

Cabbing back to hotel. Their GPS so cute right in the day got sun at night got stars

Day Three

Mum and I on the way to Nami Island

Where they had the kiss scene in dong ji lian ge

Beside the frozen river loll

LOL I wonder why this is in Nami Island

Love the trees!

Nom

Later on we had lunch at the restaurant on Nami Island. I thought it would be very rip-off but it wasn’t too bad! We had Ginseng chicken soup! The one we had was quite tasteless hmm but it is interesting because they stuff rice into the chicken lol.

Ginseng chicken soup

Humble dinner at a humble restaurant

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Korean strawberries back at the hotel

Day Four

Huge Hyun Bin face at Coex heheh

Coex Aquarium as the last stop

After that didn’t really take much photos already, Just more shopping and when it was night time we flew back! I reached Singapore at 23.59PM on 31^st Dec hahaha.

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Yay this is finally up! :) All in all, I love Korea because everything is just so good! Food, people, shopping, etc.. Hope to go there in Summer someday so I can buy more clothes at Myeongdong haha :D