Korea Travelogue: A trip to Jeju

DAY 9: FUN IN JEJU!

Air tickets in Autumn is definitely cheaper than in summer! We bought the flight tickets at only 75,000won! cheap cheap :D

After meeting up at the airport, the kiddos took a cab to the Jeju's Good Inn hotel. 

When we reached the hotel, we realised that it is quite weird cos:
1) Aircon not working cos its autumn season
2) Saw a few built guys hanging out at the reception area and we thought they looked like some gang society
3) No good lightings
4) No automated door lock. Lock door using a key.

but it's quite cheap... so we booked it -.-

Having known these, we actually wanted to contact the couple and ask if we could stay over at their hotel room instead (thinking that they booked a better hotel cos during the preparation for Korea trip, the adults wanted to stay somewhere nicer)

But... ended up, we all stayed in the same hotel cos while inside our own room, we heard some conversation and those sounded like the couple lol

#ohwell

But anyway, our stay there was short and nothing went amiss.

The next morning, we woke up early at around 4am plus just so that we can catch the sunrise at the SeongSan IlChuBong. It was a climb up......

We went down after the sunrises...

We drove to our next location! Seopjikoji! To find the Full House's building!

Up next, we went to the Maze Park! But the 3 kiddos felt that it is quite lame lol so we stayed outside... leaving the couple to enter the Maze Park to search for themselves hahahah 😝😂😂

While waiting, I went outside to check out the kitties~! So fierce and so cute haha

After they were done, we headed off to the Cave!! Manjanggul Cave! It can be quite cooling in there

Then the miniature park! To find all things small and mini!

Then we went to the Stone Park~ Pohpoh went in together with the couple while both Pengpeng and myself stayed outside

The skies turned dark in awhile after this visit. We went to look for the Black Sand Beach but the skies are dark and no lightings nearby... we couldn't really see or take photo if the sand is indeed black lol

After this, we headed to the Mysterious Road and Love land. Just let me be as innocent as I can be lol🙅🙏

While we are on our way to (I forgot where), we went the wrong direction and to our surprise we saw the Jeju KSGI kaikan unintentionally! haha #goodfortune

Spoke a little with the Kaikan staff and was informed of the Jeju Training Centre which we could visit the next day! I have never thought we can visit that cos apparently all I know was that it's only open for kenshu only and it's really grand like a hotel

Our black pork dinner at Jeju! :P

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DAY 10: FUN CONTINUES IN JEJU

Places: Cheonjiyeon falls, Oedolgae rock, and Jeju KSGI Training Centre

Oedolgae rock

Lunch before enter Cheonjiyeon falls

The abalone is fresh and yummy! unlike those canned abalone

Cheonjiyeon falls

Jeju KSGI Training Centre

We spent a few more days in Seoul, meeting up with friends in Korea and shopping so not much photos taken~

it feels different

Seems like I can no longer view it the same... It feels as though you are updating her what you have been up to even when you are just beside me... #goodfriend you say... But I see it deeper than that.

Wondering if it's him, will I feel the same with what I'm feeling right now? Perhaps better off, or maybe worse off on other issues.

#franklyspeaking it just feels different la

Korea Travelogue: Rain Rain Go Away

DAY 6: BUSAN - JALGACHI FISH MARKET

Woke up early in the morning to just so to avoid the rain... There's a convenient mart just below our airbnb apartment. So we got the Cookie O ice cream which is so yummy! #favourite 💓

Some fish for lunch? #jalgachimarket

We wanted to go Gamcheon cultural village but it was raining in afternoon -.-

Had some early dinner at a shopping mall nearby

Day 6 ended quite relaxing I think! We toured around this huge ass mall lol

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DAY 7: GAMCHEON CULTURAL VILLAGE

We just got to wefie abit lol #withoutpeng

Had our early lunch at a little restaurant at GamCheon Cultural Village. And yep, it's raining -.-

So foggy :(

Had some coffee break while waiting for the fog to clear...

Better view now!

Dinner near our accommodation! I think this is the Busan notable must eat food. some pork soup if I recall..

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DAY 8: TAITAI LIFE AT BUSAN SPALAND

don't ever take cab to somewhere far in Korea. If it's short distance, cab fare might work out just right. But the fare climbs exponentially after it hit a certain distance mark.

Spaland at Shinsegae mall! Slightly more expensive than the one we went in Seoul, but the facilities are great here...

Lunch inside Spaland! We lugged our luggage into Spaland, and stored our barangs with them

It's really shiok to bathe in the hot waters in the open air. It was cold in the afternoon but after the spa, my body is so warmed up that I didn't need to wear my jacket!

Took the shuttle bus from a bus stop near Shinsegae to Busan Airport

My dinner at the foodcourt! Cheap cheap and good good!

We took Jejuair from Busan to Jeju. And here, 2 other Gakkai couple joined us 😍🙌

Korea Travelogue: A trip to Ulsan - NEAR MISS!

DAY 5: A TRIP TO ULSAN - NEAR MISS

When planning for this trip to Korea, we wanted to explore somewhere different. In sought of that, we looked through the map and I happened to chance upon one blogger's post where she went to GanJeolGot so I suggested Ulsan as a potential place since its near Busan!

Upon confirming Ulsan, we then looked into Car Rental shop where we can possibly depart from Point A and return car at Point B. But nope, not possible... 

So we did a one day road trip at Ulsan and bought a day Korail Pass which allows us to travel multiple times on Korail within a day; something like Seoul --> Ulsan (self drive) --> Busan

 Early in the morning, we packed our luggage to be brought over to Ulsan then Busan.

A selfie and my hair after I went Juno Hair!

Rented car from Hertz near Ulsan Station. We put our luggage inside the car and went travelling!

First stop: Tae Hwa Gang Grand Park

Tadah the white car

Pengpeng's eye is in a bad state since the start of the trip and it didn't get better... Cos it was rather bad, we traveled around to search for Hospital where she can get her eye treatment done.

So apparently, in Korea, they name carpark repair shop, dental, vet as blah blah byeonwon... Byeongwon means clinic/hospital... we being Singaporeans didn't know our search for a proper hospital needs to be super specific so we ended up in many other different types of hospital...

But lastly, we managed to find one legit hospital after conversing with the Vet hospital valet ahjussi when we were parking the car...

Happy faces after the tedious search and tedious conversation with the nurse and doctor... Peng Peng finally got her medicine :)

Then we continued to hit the road. We headed to the seonam lake park thereafter cos it was supposed to be filled with beautiful flowers... But ok maybe wrong season lol

After this, we headed to the Gan Jeon Got which was the farthest of the three. You know what? Somehow we clicked onto the GPS (Korean language only) wrongly and travelled a super long way back to the Hertz Car Rental store at Ulsan station. WALAO EHHHHH 😱😱😱😱

So now, we took a longer distance from Hertz Rental to Gan Jeol Got.......... and the skies are turning dark......

We drove till a connecting lane and accidentally went into the opposite lane without knowing. Few seconds after, we saw an oncoming vehicle and the lady driver gave us the loudest honk ever then we realised that we drove into the wrong lane... 🙉😱

I guess that was cos we are so accustomed to Singapore right hand driving while Korea left hand driving is our first experience...

Thankfully no one is hurt, thankfully the oncoming vehicle isn't those huge trucks... #nmhrgk 🙏🙏🙏

Happy faces when we reached the ultimate destination lol the sea wind is crazy...

Glass house Starbucks at Gan Jeol Got. We rested awhile after a long day out in the cold...

The craziest nightmare happen to us again, after our rest at the Starbucks... We rushed into the car (cos the wind is damn strong and cold) and wanted to leave this place. Engine stalled. Poh tried to start the car again. Engine stalled again. Tried all sorts of method to get it going. Cant.

Can you imagine we were damn anxious and worried liao cos technically Gan Jeol Got is like the ulu-est place near the sea where there are no lamp post along the road.. not even on the highway.. they use road reflectors...

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

We calm our hearts and mind. Pohpoh tried again, and finally it worked!!! Not sure if it's cos the weather is too cold that the car needed sometime to warm up.

Along the way back, the fuel bar is signalling low fuel... remember? cos we made a wrong detour back to the Hertz Rental cos of the GPS...

But anyway, happy face after all these scary encounters while filling up the tank.

Reached our Busan apartment at night! It's also walking distance from the Busan station :)

Till the next day!