So on the night of 23rd April, I ventured into a trip I've waited for a few years (4-5yrs?). Thanks to my mum and grandma for sending me off, and also my babe Atiqah for seeing me off. Much love hahaha.
Our flight was booked 7 months ago (October 2014) with AirAsia. We planned to visit Busan first, then Jeju and then lastly to Seoul, reason being I know I will buy a lot of things in Seoul.
One way ticket to Busan (transit at KL) + 15kg check in baggage: SGD$343
Travel insurance: SGD$15.45
Day 1
Finally reached Busan after 8 hrs of the aisle seat (hate aisle seats lol) at 8.30am KST and the headed straight to the apartment we booked to take a rest first. Lol first train we took already took to the wrong direction.
Accommodation (Busan/2nights): SGD$38
After washing up and putting some make up on, we headed to our first destination, Beomeosa Temple. The roads in Busan are all so steep but the buses there all damn steady can go up. But of cus I am very scared the bus to heavy will topple la lolol scary shit. But it also means I walked up a lot of steep slopes lol strong thighs now.
Selfie first.
One more cus nice make up no sweat.
There are many "houses" in there but this is the main entrance!
Another entrance inside the main entrance.
Lol don't know what we doing also.
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After that we headed for Nampo-dong for some shopping and dinner. We were famished because our last meal was 4am, on the plane.
Settled for a simple korean eatery that sells stew. I love korean stews!!
Shopping right after that and we tried not to get too many stuff because it would be difficult to transport it to Jeju then Seoul (although I still got). Anyway if you are in Busan, try the Ho Ddeok!! I dont have a sweet tooth but the Ho Ddeok in Busan is just.... major love.
(Note that I said Ho Ddeok in Busan because the ones I had in Seoul sucked. Lol.)
Price: 1000₩
The streets of Nampo-dong.
Daisies on the streets and they are so pretty and fake but it's real!!
Day 2
The next day we woke up pretty early cus it's our second and last day in Busan and we wanted to go to a few places. The first destination was the Gamcheon Culture Village and it is one of the places I very much wanted to go because it is beauuuuuuutifuuuuuul.
Headed to Paris Baguette cafe for breakfast first just right below the village.
On the way there....
Love the Paris Baguette there because the food is nicer and the prices are half of SG's prices. Not sure whether the cashier keyed in wrongly but I only paid 1600₩ for 2 pastries.. thats equal to SGD$2. And then we took a bus up there and again, the slopes are sooooo steep I am scared.
The view was so spectacular I was wow-ed when I saw this view with my own eyes. Its a residential area but it's also a tourist attraction. Haha can't imagine myself living in a tourist attraction, everyday got weird people come and see your house.
Anyway after taking pictures from the top, we walked down and explored the area a little bit more. there are alleys (the houses' corridors) where we can walk through. Every inch of the village is beautiful.
The steep slope I am referring to. This is just one of them. I can't imagine if I accidentally fall haha. Confirm die.
Then I spotted this nice and cute staircase and attempted to take an artistic shot when I heard a cat meowing so I ran away.
Walked down the village further and came across this cafe with a unique exterior! I think its a cat cafe and I am not a fan of cats but the exterior deserves a thumbs up.
Headed to Seomyeon first for some shopping and I love how almost all the train stations in Korea have underground shopping and the prices are pretty affordable.
Haeundae Beach after that and the original plan was to visit another temple but we couldn't find it so we gave it a miss.
Awed by the beach's view too!!
So we stayed around for a while to take all the pictures we want before walking around the area.
Accidentally passsed by the Haeundae market and its like a traditional wet market that sells.... food. Mostly seafood and I am very disgusted at the sight of eels because I hate things like that (Snakes, eels, worms OMG YUCKS)
Then went for dinner and we settled for a simple roadside stall because we didn't know what to eat. Had Ramen (instant noodles actually which is not picture worthy) and gimbap! I love gimbap.
Then when I was walking and walking I saw this person in school uniform with blonde hair so I thought he look like a celebrity from the back so I walked faster to see his face. OMG HANDSOME OPPA but he walked off after that and I a bit sad hahaha.
After shopping we went back and prepare to fly off tmrw morning!
Day 3
Went to the airport right after we were ready to set off for our flight to Jeju! Had korean stew at the food court there because we had no time to go find food outside.
Flew with Jeju Air and the service is very good!! Although it's considered a budget flight (but also not really), they serve complimentary drinks.
Air ticket to Jeju (+15kg check in baggage): 77,800₩ = SGD$100
Reached Jeju a while later and headed for the guesthouse straight. We stayed in Yeha Guesthouse because we couldn't really find any thru AirBnb and since we were going on a tour with Yeha the next day, we 顺便 just book the guesthouse together. Anyway got a 10,000₩ discount for the tour if we are a guest in the guesthouse. I actually prefer living in a guesthouse because got complimentary breakfast hahaha. And we stayed in a 6-Bed Dorm and it was kinda fun because I get to meet new people and make friends from other countries!
Accommodation (Jeju/2 nights): 38,000₩ = SGD$50
After we checked in we headed out to Jeju Folk Village which I saw in Miss Korea: I'm Mae and I was kinda excited to visit the place because from what I saw it was really beautiful. It was an hour bus ride there (Jeju has no subway) and I was so tired I fell asleep during the ride. Actually I fell asleep during all the rides haha.
Read online that there were admission fees so we were expecting it would be a systematic kinda thing (like USS, one round can walk finish everything) but upon reaching there, we couldn't find any entrance not any ticketing counter. So we walked around aimlessly. The area was also a residential area so we were like trespassing into people's houses lol. Walked around and round and round hoping there would be someone entertaining us but no one did even if we stood in their areas for damn long. It was actually very hot so I was quite pissed off walking under the hot sun because I REALLLY HATE HEAT. Anyway we continued walking and then came across this house where I saw the words "会说中文". Means able to speak mandarin. So I walked in and asked the person how do we actually go about exploring this place.
Then this chinese lady came out and said this actually all are residential areas including the one we were at. But she offered to give us a tour in her area and told us that 大长今 was actually filmed in that area. Then she brought us to a small hut and let us try a tea that apparently has 5 different tastes and different individuals tastes it differently according to their health.
Basically how the houses in the folk village looks like! All the houses look the same from the outside actually.. haha.
Anyway feeling all lost and tired, we headed back to somewhere near our guesthouse for dinner. Settled for black pork bbq which also anyhow walked into because all the eateries we walked past are empty, so we anyhow haha.
Price: 27,000₩ = SGD$34
Lol expensive hor. I am not a pork lover but black pork tastes soooo goood! And if you know me I basically dislike eating pork especially pork with fats but black pork is daebak.
Walked around later on and had the Korean 32cm ice cream for 2000₩ = SGD$2.50. Even the ice cream tastes good cus it's very rich in flavour.
Shopped around a little bit and then walked back to the guesthouse thinking its very near. So we walked and walked and walked until the point that we thought it is taking too long to reach. Did we overshoot? or not? So at this point both of us decided to turn back where we have just walked. But after we walked back, we realised we haven't even pass by our guesthouse yet so we turned back and walked again. Lol seriously right forever getting lost.
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Day 4
Woke up pretty early because the tour bus is gonna pick us up at 8.40am (SG TIME 7.40am). Breakfast was provided by the guesthouse except that we need to fry the eggs ourselves.
Anyway as soon as the tour bus picked us up, I slept lolol. I love sleeping. The bus went to a few other destinations to pick up people who signed up for the tour but not living in Yeha Guesthouse so it took quite a while before actually heading to our first destination, Hallim Park.
Hallim Park, to me was an all in one park because we could see everything that we needed to see. The first theme of the park was the cave, and I thought it was pretty good because we actually planned to visit Manganggul Cave but gave it a miss because of time constraint.
As soon as we stepped into the cave, the temperature dropped and it was the perfect kind of temperature (although Priscilla say very cold) because it was getting very hot outside. We could hear water dripping and the sound of it is so relaxing haha.
One picture of the cave because every part of the cave looks almost the same.
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This is actually the exit of the cave haha.
Then as we walked on, we saw the folk village...... then I realised we just wasted our time yesterday....................................... Lol could've went to Hello Kitty/Innisfree museum.
See!!!!!!! It looks the same la wth.
Then got a random bird park.
Then we saw this white peacock. Too beautiful!!!! Looks like snow. I think its called snow peacock. Lol anyhow one.
After that there were still many other themes but time was running out and we didn't want the bus to leave without us so we speed walk across them.
After that we went to Suweolbong trekking and basically we just walked by the beautiful seaside. the water is blue and from far we could see different shades of blue which made it even more beautiful!
Haha I alread tell you Jeju got a lot of rocks because its a volcanic island (that's why we get awesome Jeju volcanic clay mask) haha.
We walked for dam far la until I want to die seriously.
Headed for lunch at Spirited Garden, korean buffet style lunch. Got black pork again haha but I forget to take a picture because it was too hot and I was half asleep.
After that we just toured around Spirited garden! It's like a botanical garden but much prettier than ours, duh.
Dol Haruebang all dressed up haha!
Anyway after that we headed to Mount Sanbang and there is a legend behind this Mountain which I forgot. We were supposed to climb 470 steps (I think) up then we can pray to the buddha on the top of the mountain and drink the natural mineral water. I didn't take any pictures when climbing la cus I want to die already what hello.
Then I reallllyy wanted to give up on the way but I also reallllyyyy wanted to go up and pray and drink the water. And so I did it.
At first I thought like wth la damn dirty to drink water that drip from the cave cus the cave itself is dirty one what!!! But everybody was doing it so I did it too. The water tasted crisp, fresh, cold and delicious lolol.
After that I walked down another 470 steps and by the time I finished, my legs were trembling. Lol weakling.
After that we just waited for the other people to come down (we were one of the first ones to finish going up and down) so we just slacked around before getting to the last destination, Cheonjeyeon Waterfall. We could choose between teddy Bear Museum and the waterfall but since many chose the waterfall, we followed. which means climbing and CLImbing and clIMbing again.
Shot took by Priscilla. I just passed her my whole camera to take pictures because I AM SO TIRED.
Then we climb up and down and up and down to see the waterfall!!
After we were all done, the bus brought us back to our guesthouse again. We rested a bit and headed out for dinner with our other 2 roommates from Indonesia. They brought us to Dong Mun market to get some Jeju chocolates at only 6 boxes for 10,000₩ = SGD$12.60.
Overall, I must say the adventure in Busan and Jeju was a super tiring one because of the climbing and climbing and climbing. But to get to see the scenaries we don't get to see here, it was worth it.
See you in Seoul in the next post!
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