Seoul
Honeymoon Trip Journal (8D7N).
25/12/2017,
Monday.
8.30 am. Our flight depart to KLIA2 from
Alor Setar Airport by AirAsia.
Me and my husband, both were ‘super
excited’ to go to the airport. We arrived at Kepala Batas Airport around 7.30
am to do the check in process for our luggage before we could proceed to check in our
tickets.
Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my own
sweater as I thought the one that I was holding is mine. But actually it was my
husband’s sweater!
I was very careless and feel very sorry to
my husband’s bro-in-law, Abg Zul, as he had helped sending us to the airport in the early morning.
Suddenly, my husband told me that he too
forgot to bring the most important thing, our “sijil
nikah” as we were just getting married for two weeks.
Thanks to Abg Zul as he willingly went to
the airport twice just to send us and bring along our stuff that we
accidentally left at home.
2.40 pm. Our flight depart to Incheon
International Airport from KLIA2 by AirAsia.
We already ate our meal after 2 hours in
the flight. The weather is getting cold. I can feel the chill even though we’re
not even arrive yet. My husband still not wearing his sweater trying to be cool
and relaxing his mind before landing at Incheon.
Note that I am not used being in cold
weather. Even here in Malaysia during rainy season I can’t even walk around
without my sweater on so this is my first time going to the four season country
during winter. Such an unforgettable experience!
We knew that it’s gonna be hustle and
bustle once we arrive at the airport so we’re trying to study the subway
schedule before we could really use their facilities there.
For me and my husband, as long as we can
safely arrive there without any delay, that would be very much grateful for us.
11.00 pm. We landed safely at Incheon
Airport.
Our phone automatically change the time
zone which has been set using Korean time zone. It is one hour earlier from Malaysian time zone (10.00 pm in Malaysia, 11.00 pm in Korea).
Once we arrive at the airport, we started
to feel the cold immediately. It is 11oc.
Everyone was rushing to the railway station which bring passengers from hub to the main lobby for arrival passenger.
As we arrive there at late night so we
decide to take a taxi from airport to the hotel. The Airportel where we sleep
for one night was very comfortable. It is actually an apartment that turns out
to be a hotel for any passenger who came arrive late at night at the airport.
It is only 5 min away from the airport too.
26/12/2017,
Tuesday.
In the morning, we wake up early to take some
walk around the Airportel. The view was very beautiful and fascinating there.
The feeling was also different. I can feel the cold breeze over my face which
make me hard to breathe properly since I’m still not used with the weather
here. My husband keep me warm by holding my hands but still can’t help it. So
we decided to buy the hand warmer which helps us to warm our body by keeping
our hands in the pockets.
12.00 pm. We check out from Airportel and
going to the airport.
The easier way to use public transport to go to our next hotel in
Itaewon is using the subway. Luckily the Airportel has transport service that
will send us to the airport back. It is to accommodate the passengers who come
and go to the airport.
At the airport, we decided to rent a
portable wifi. It is useful for tourist or foreigners to get the internet mobility in this country. We decided to rent it for the whole week.
After that, we buy a T-money card which
same as Touch n Go card (in Malaysia) that helps people who want to use the
subway or any other public transport by touching the card only.
2.00 pm. We arrive at Itaewon station.
With our huge luggage we started to search
our hotel in the city. The city was not very big but it’s full with huge
buildings and shopping market. Our hotel was located in antic shops street.
After some time we finally found our hotel between the piles of building.
3.00 pm. We check in the hotel, Itaewon
Inn.
The hotel was not very big so it doesn’t
has elevator in there. Our room is in the 4th floor. Imagine how we
going up and down by stairs, pheww..
After checking in hotel, we decided to take a walk around the town. Itaewon is one of the place where most tourists will come
here and stay. The most important thing we choose here because there are a lot
of halal restaurant we could find and eat. We had eaten at one of the small
halal restaurant here that serve Korean food style. And amazingly, the employee
is actually Malaysian student where most of them are working to spend their
holiday semester break. Me and my husband enjoying Korean food so much as it
was our first time eating even though there were a lot of Korean food
restaurant that had been opened in Malaysia. The feeling is different as we
enjoy eating during cold and winter season. You guys should try it too!
After that, we went to the Seoul Central
Mosque which is the only mosque that muslims can come and pray. The mosque is
strategically located in the centre of the town but you have to climb a bit as
it has lot of stairs. Fuhh..
The weather is getting cold at night. We
decided to take a walk in Myeongdong. We’re going there with subway in only 10
min.
Myeongdong is one of the large night market in Seoul. The market was full
of people and food along the streets. The environment is very lively with crowd
of people going there and even not only us Malaysian but there’s also other
tourists coming here too. The stallers are very busy dealing and pursuing their
customers to buy their products and souvenir. Full of lights and Korean songs
started to appear as we walk farther in the market.
27/12/2017,
Wednesday.
9.00 am. We go to the Gyeongbokgung palace
and Gwanghamun Gate. It is one of the history place in Seoul.
The palace was very huge and big. There is
also a ceremony which held in front of the gate palace for tourists to see.
They were all wearing traditional outfit of Korean people who live in the
palace. Tourists also have a chance to wear their traditional dress but I
didn’t have chance to wear it as the weather is too cold and I cannot move
around with less outfit covering me, hehe…
Then, we went to the Namsan Tower after
having lunch and praying Zohor at 2.00 pm.
We decided to take a bus number 405, in
blue colour. Here, every bus has their own colour indicates each one has different routes. So
the user can easily search the bus by looking at the code number and colour. They
even have different bus stops for each buses.
As we arrived at Namsan station, we heading to
the tower using the cable car. The duration of cable car going up towards the tower is just
taking several minutes to arrive but we still can see the view of the town clearly.
At Namsan Tower, there was a lot of ‘love locks’ hanging at
the fence. Variety types and colours of ‘love locks’ can be seen along the aisle
towards the tower.
28/12/2017,
Thursday.
We come out from the hotel early in the
morning to go the Everland. The Everland theme park was located a bit far from
here. It takes about couple hours to go there. In order to get there, we need
to take a bus from Gangnam and go straight to Everland.
The Everland Theme Park was very huge. A lot
of games and entertainment can be enjoyed. The environment was very fascinating and beautiful
with full of decorations as they were celebrating for Christmas Day. They also put
a large tree that resembles Christmas tree in the center of the park. A lot of
ice sculptures were also been sculptured to decorate the theme park as well.
I urge my husband to ride a roller coaster
as I have never been ride it before. But my husband warn me not to ride it at first
as we were just ate some food. It is not right to ride after eating or else we
will feel very dizzy and vomit after riding it. As my husband had experiencing riding it before so I just listen well to my husband’s advice.
My husband was very excited to play the
snow buster. He brings me to the snow buster park. Snow buster is where we slide down the snow on a snow board. We start to queue waiting for our turns. Even though the queue was very long but it
was very exciting. I can feel the ice of the snow splattered over my face when
sliding down the snow. It was such an unforgettable moment for me and my
husband. We spend about a day in the theme park as there's a lot of entertaining games that in there. Sadly, we did not have much time to play all the games as the time is getting dark. Time is running really fast for us.
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p/s: That's all for now. Baru siap Part 1 dengan sedikit kerajinan yang ade. Kalau rajin lagi baru siap part yang seterusnya.. kene tunggu lagi lah. Lol.