food and travel: South Korea

Monday, January 19, 2015

SOUTH KOREA TRIP with SKI (PART 2)

Hello everyone! This is the continuance of my Korea trip.
THE THIRD DAY
I went to Petite France which is very famous because "My Love From Another Star" did the shooting here. It is a good drama that talked about alien that lived in Bumi. It was starring by Kim Soo Hyun and Hyun Ji Hyun. If you haven't watched it, I recommend that drama.

After the Petite France, I continued it to Nami Island, a island which is famous because the beautiful tree lined road. It is also famous because Winter Sonata drama did the shooting here.

Tree lined road

Standing on the frozen lake \m/

Steamed red bean bun

And the last activity for the third day was SKIING!! Wohooo! I was so excited. I did the skiing in Oakvalley Ski Resort. But of course firstly, you need to rent the ski equipment, the particular cloths, snowboard, the shoes, sunglasses? I think the sunglasses is not important because the use is for anti-glare, but because we are just a beginner, we only practiced at the edge, which is not dazzled. The rent for cloths, snowboard and the shoes cost $50 and the sunglasses cost 15000 won. Oh, you will need gloves too, you can buy it there, the rent places, or you can buy it in another place, but the gloves must be thick and waterproof. The rental places can be found along the way to the Oakvalley Ski Resort.

THE FOUTH DAY
Can you see the mountain behind? Does it beautiful? I took it from my hotel. The view here was so nice. Oh, I think I forget to inform that I was in Korea when it was winter.

Silhouette

The trip continued to Soraksan where the Bronze Buddha Statue and Shinheungsha Temple is located.

The Bronze Buddha Statue

At Shinheungsha Temple

I also went to Daepohang Fish Market where the markets only sell fish and seafood. They also sell fresh-fried-fish, prawn and any other fresh seafood.

I went back to my hotel which was Kensington Flora Hotel. The hotel was nice and has quite a good decoration.

This photo was taken when I only used 2 layers of t-shirt and jacket. OMG! After this photo taken, I hurried back to hotel. My hand and feet were so hurt because too cold. DON'T try this, EVER!

The Korea Trip part 2 is only until here, I will post the next part guyss! If you have something to ask, you can comment on below. Thankyou for reading :)

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

SOUTH KOREA TRIP (PART 1)

Hello everyone! This is my officially first time to type a blog like this. So please kindly give me a comment and correct me if I make mistakes. Okay, let's start with my Korea Trip.
I went to Korea for 9 days and 8 nights by plane (of course, it's very far from Medan) by transiting at Singapore. I took night flight from Medan to Korea, so I would arrive at Korea in the next morning (actually the Korea trip only 7 days).
FIRST DAY IN KOREA
I arrived at Seoul 7 am and went to 63 building directly. It is a skyscraper in Seoul that has 274 m (899 ft) height. It was built as a landmark for 1988 Summer Olympics. At the 60th floor, there is art gallery and an observation deck. There is also a sea world and wax museum in 63 building.

The view from observation deck

Sea World at 63 Building

Penguinnnn isn't it cute?

"I made mistake, sorry sir" hahahah

I must admit that the wax museum is not as good as Madame Tussauds. Therefore, I didn't take a lot of photos.

After the 63 building, I went back to Incheon Airport to go to JEJU Island! At Jeju, I went to Yongduam Rock which is a rock that has a shape like a dragon head

Is it like a dragon head ?

I continued my trip to Mysterious Road which is popular because the liquid can roll or flow up to the hill instead of down.

Can u see the road is very wet? That's because everyone keeps trying to pour water there and see the magic >< (the water flowing up)

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THE SECOND DAY, I was still at Jeju and visited Seongsan Ilchulbong, an archetypal tuff cone formed by hydrovolcanic eruptions upon a shallow seabed about 5000 years ago. The tuff cone is 182 meters high so I decided to went up.

Me and Hareubang

Hareubang is a symbol of Jeju Island and considered as a God that offers protection and fertility. If you touch the nose of Hareubang than you'll be given a boy, while ears for girl. However, if you touch the belly it's not for getting pregnant but for welfare. If you want to be smarter thenn you should touch the head. You only allow to touch two part, not all. Greediness will give you nothing :D

At the rest stop

Then I continued to Seongeup Folk Village, where you can see the unique old Korean village.

After that, I continued to Cheonjiyeon Waterfall. Literally, the name Cheonjiyeon means sky (Ch'eon) connected with land^.It is 22 m (72 ft) high and 12 m (39 ft) wide.