Entri lepas ada cerita pasal jalan-jalan
trip dengan husband pergi Seoul, Korea kan? So, sekarang yaya nak sambung untuk
hari ke-5.
29/12/2017,
Friday.
In the early morning, we get ready to go to
the Gangchon village. We going there by subway.
Travelling here were much easier with their
systematic transport service. Any tourist or foreigners can easily going to any
places by themselves. Even people here are very helpful and friendly. They are
most likely never hesitate to give a hand to any outsiders who come approach
them to seek for help. It is like they are trained to be very respectful
towards each other.
The village that we heading is a bit far
which taking around one hour. We had to switch trains several times to reach
the place in a short time. White snow started to appear more on the hills and
roads along the way as we go further from the city.
11.00 am. As we arrive there, the village was
very much calm and silent. There was not much people coming out. Probably
because of the cold weather the villagers would love to stay inside rather than
being outside.
Me and my husband just walking from the
Ganchon station to the Ganchon Rail Park which is not far away. The park was
very fascinating. It has its own café that has large piles of books replica
around them. In there, we enter the ride park which consist of a small railway
that were used for a small train to bring carriage before. As it has not been
used anymore, they turned it into an entertainment park that has railway bike
for any tourist to enjoy the view of the village by riding a bike. It is very
cool.
We enjoy the beautiful moment along the
way. It takes about an hour for us to finish the route.
After that, we rush back to the station to
go to the Nami Island. We do not want to waste time as there’s not enough time
for us to wait longer. Me and my husband want to reach the island before it’s
getting dark.
The duration from Gangchon station to
Gapyeong station is not far. From Gapyeong station, we ride a shuttle bus to
the jetty which heading to Nami Island.
The island was so beautiful. As we reach
there, a lot of ice sculptures in mermaid and snowman welcoming us. Many
tourists from all over the world come here to see the uniqueness of the island.
Basically the island become famous through popular Korean drama, “Winter
Sonata”. There’s even a pair of mannequin of the actor and actress were put there to
remain as memory of “Winter Sonata” had been filming there before.
Many activities can be seen such as snow
sliding, riding a mini train, skiing and much more. There’s also a lot of
restaurants that serve variety of food. Luckily there’s also halal food
restaurants for Muslims. So, we having lunch here and tried one of their famous
Korean food, bulgoggi with rice. It is so delicious!
30/12/17,
Saturday
Today, we decided to take walk at
Cheonggae/Cheonggyecheon stream. The stream is located in the middle of the
city. It is very unique as the stream was hidden below the streets in the
middle of huge buildings and it looks very beautiful.
Unfortunately, during winter the trees
didn’t turn out lovely. Because the weather is too cold so they become so much
dry with no leaves. The stream also become partly ice and water.
In the evening, we went to another famous
shopping market which located at Namdaemun. There’s a lot of markets full of
things that we can buy. The price also much cheaper than at Myeongdong market. My
husband and I started to shop whatever souvenirs we can to bring back to
Malaysia.
The shopkeepers were also very friendly.
Some of them even know how to speak Malay. I was very shocked at first. They
telling us that they love when Malaysians coming here often. Well I can see
that Korea is one of the most favourite country Malaysians love to visit.
31/12/17,
Sunday
This morning, we decided to go to the Lotte
World which is another theme park in Seoul. It has outdoor and indoor game
entertainment. It is also located at Lotte Mart.
The decision to go there is actually a last
minute decision as we had cancel our plan to go to Vivaldi Ski Park at first.
We unable to go there as we had lack of time and me myself having some health
problems. Huhu. But we still have some money to spend in Korea before we could
go back to Malaysia.. hehe..therefore early in the morning, we just take subway
and few buses to reach there. (I forgot
which buses we had took, huhu)
Lotte World is a good spot if you want to
play more games indoor during winter. So that you don’t have to wear your
jacket all the time. The first game we played was the hot air balloon. It is
not like a real one but it made those hot air balloon attach to the high
ceiling in the theme park so it looks like they are floating in the air. Interesting
right?
The waiting line to play every game was
very long and it is basically took for 60 minutes. But the game we played only
took like several minutes. Thus, everyone can still play all the games in this entertainment
park even though there were thousands people in there. If you look right inside
the theme park they have a lot of interesting and amazing games but
unfortunately not all games we could play freely as some of them need to be
charged. But heyy, still we enjoy spending our great time there. Hahaa.
At night, we come again shopping at
Myeondong and eating street food. There are a lot street food that we want to
eat and enjoy it for the last time as tomorrow will be our last day here. Gonna
miss all those food street here so much!
1/1/18,
Monday
Before we went flying back to KL, we went
back shopping at Namdaemun at very early morning. We want to buy some souvenirs
for our last time to bring back to Malaysia. Amazingly there are still more
money left on our hands to be spent off!
Our flight will be taking off at night but
we already check out from our hotel at 12pm to arrive at Incheon airport early.
It is very an amazing journey for us as travelling as backpackers is actually a
very first time experience for me. My husband had done few backpacking travels
to other countries before marrying me so that’s why he is more confident when
he was traveling oversea. He had gone to Vietnam and Thailand by himself before
this.
So, end of my Seoul trip journal.
We may had planned to go for another trip
again after this inshaAllah..
Doakan..aminn..
p/s Thank you for reading my Seoul trip journal
patiently. May Allah bless your life with happiness too!
