Enjoy the below 3 slideshows (total of 150 photos) for our korea trip from the 17th-30th Sept 2007... =)
Day 1: Singapore . Seoul
Day 2: Seoul . Jeju . Mysterious Road (bus with brakes off and can roll uphill & water flowing uphill instead of down... cool!) . Bunjae Park (garden specializing in bonsai cultivation & traditional Dolhareubangs (god of both dignified and humorous)... fun to take photos...) . Yongduam Rock (unusual lava formation like a dragon flying from the sea... i dont think so lah, looks more like dragon crawling inland or something, hahaha)
Day 3: Sunrise Peak (easternmost tip of Jeju island, this area is the first to great each day's new sun... we got there like 9am or so lor, just a bloody sunny day, cant open our eyes lah) . 'All In' filming site . Tangerine Orchard (bright fake oranges on the trees for tourists like us to take photos with as this is not the correct month to see ripen oranges) . Seongeup Folk Village (to see how the ppl used to live... site of Da Chang Jing as well. hard sell session of their products like honey, lingzhi and dunno what... hahaha) . Sanbanggulsa Buddhist Temple (huge chamber with an enormous portal containing a huge Buddha statue) . Yangmeori Coast (super windy place) . Hamel Museum (a ship museum beside the coast... was closed when we were there.)
Day 4: Jeju . Seoul . Everland (great place to take photos... really enjoyed myself there... i went for relaxing rides, unlike emi... hahaha) . Mt Sorak Resort
Day 5: Mt Sorak Natioal Park (great place for hiking i supposed... love the mountains and stream... we soaked our feet in the cold water, quite refreshing) . Kwon Kum Seong Castle (took a cable car to the top... rocky place and all.. but the view was great!! worth all the efforts to climb up and down the steep slopes while hanging to our dear lives as the wind was very strong) . Sinheungsa Temple (bronze status well over 10m high, sited on a granite terrace) . Daepo Harbour (port with numerous shops selling raw fish and seafood products) . Aquaworld (we tried Dr Fish... where a LOT of tiny fishes come and nibble at your feet. supposed to eat away the dead skins and etc.. very interesting/weird feeling... hahaha... but we have our doubts abt the eat-away-dead-skins-ability... hahaha)
Day 6: Yangju MBC 'Daejanggeum' theme park (another great place to take photos... had a great time wearing the costumes and posing for shoots.. haha) . Concert at World Cup Stadium (kind of boring cos we didnt know the singers... and it's rainy and cold and etc... lucky tour grp ppl wanted to go off early for dinner and back to hotel... hahaha)
Day 7: Seoul City Tour (bus was caught in horrible jams most of the time then for us to enjoy the city tour lor... learnt a useful skill: falling asleep on bus the moment i sit down.. hahaha..) . Blue House (presidential residence with blue tiles and smooth roof blend beautifully with Mt Bugaksah behind) . Deoksugung (meaning 'palace of virtuous longevity. heard ppl commenting that China has more beautiful buildings and etc.. hahaha.. perhaps) . Myeongdong (our fav shopping place... hahaha...)
Day 8: wasted the whole morning as we did the on-tour-package-and-no-choice-shopping for ginseng, amethyst, dongchonghacho and korean food (we didnt get anything as everything was expensive lah.. haha..) . check in to hostel
Day 9: Public holz in Korea . Free entry to Gyeongbokgung Palace (oldest palace of the Joseon Dynasty) . National Folk Museum of Korea . Seoul Plaza (CBD/City Hall area) . Mid-autumn concert (great concert, very entertaining.. experience the koreans' way of life bah.. hahaha)
Day 10: Lotte world (fun place too!!... emi took 2 very exciting rides.. hahahaha.. as usual, i did the kiddy stuff...) . Folk Mueseum (i'm impressed by the exhibitions and etc.. very interesting place to learn more abt their history and way of life...)
Day 11: Sleep in day . Covered shopping areas like Doosa Tower, Migliore, AM/PM, Dongdaemum Fashion Town, Namdaemum etc . Rainy day . Bag turned into mini swimming pool whereby everything was soaked and etc, argghhhh . Most stalls at the night mkts were closed
Day 12: Ewah Womans Uni's Fashion Street (great shopping area too... love the 1,000won store.. hahaha). E-mart (to do supermarket shopping like getting seaweeds, tidbits, food items, etc)
Day 13: Unhyeongung Palace (where we witnessed a traditional korean wedding... cool!!) . Insadong (art galleries, traditional craft stores and etc.. arty place) . Itaewon (where you all find all the angmos here, seriously...) . Myeongdong (last min shopping again.. and to spend our last bit of Won... hahaha)
Day 14: Dragged our very heavy luggages down staircases and walked 15mins to the nearest bus stop to catch the airport bus... super tiring lei... hahaha... Home sweet home
5 comments:
As I was looking through the pics on sunday that aihua and emily showed me, I realised there is so much more to korea that I never explored. Its more interesting and has more cultural heritage than explored. I think its been time and money well spent on aihua's and emi's part.
faint...anw i immensely enjoyed my trip last time...haha..;> just tt nv went got to go free and easy..onli spent 1.2k total tt time..think it was $$ well spent too..:P.. anw great to know u all had fun thr too...
ello! modest display of pics, i must say. and hua, too many pics of me liao la. (oh i just realized that it could be due to my pathetic photograhy skills hence u couldnt use ur pics, eeks!)
i spent about 2.4K and hua just slightly lesser. still think we had the best of both worlds: all the far off places were done in grp tour and our interests were addressed in our free n easy.
looking back, wat i loved most was the shopping and free flow kimchi.
oh and i am so so so addicted to sea salted crispy seaweed. polished off large qty of it already!
hahahaha.. i think we both have an equal amount of photos on display lor... i cannot load too many photos per slideshow, else the file size would be huge...
currently each file is abt 1MB now, i think it's the limit lah... must balance between need to see as many photos as possible and the download time taken for the page to load... =)
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