Honeymoon Trip Journal: Seoul Part 1

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 11^oc.

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 4^th 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.

.

.

.

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.