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Saturday, July 26, 2014

South Korea Trip - Day 2 - Busan

Route:
Jalgachi Fish Market > Gamcheon Culture Village > BIFF/Gwangbok street > Lotte Department Store

No breakfast provide by Hue Motel. We walked to 7-11 store and had a simple breakfast before we go for great meal later... Yeah~

Another brand of banana milk... Have promotion now...just 1,000 won each. Normal price is 1,500 won. But I did not buy it to have a try.

I like their local made cigarette. Looks slim and "elegant" :)

Jalgachi fish market building. There full of fish selling stalls and restaurants around this area.

Inside the building. This is ground floor - selling fresh seafood.

After ordered your seafood at ground floor, we followed the "chef" and guide us to the level 1 to waiting our food come. To read more > Jalgachi Fish Market

After eaten such great brunch, I think we should take walk to Gamcheon Culture Village. Look at the map, is this a good idea to walk there? You can find my answer HERE.

This is one of the view of Gamcheon Culture Village.

After spent an hour in Gamcheon Culture Village. We took bus and arrived BIFF/Gwangbok Street. This area full with stalls and few cinemas around. The most attract me is the food stalls here.

Looks nice but the stuffs surround it is tasteless

Why so many people queuing up here?

Station 1: "Shaping"

Station 2: Fry~

Station 3: Put some nuts

This is what I queuing up for. Worth for it... very delicious. I should buy more. There have few more similar stalls selling similar 'bun'... but the taste is different. We did buy 1 from another stall.

Sugar can drink. Nothing special for me because I could easily find it in Penang. What it attracted me is the packaging and I thought it just cost 1,000 won. Mana tau, it cost me 3,000 won! It is the most expensive sugar can that I have in my life. Some more, the taste is not tasty than Penang one.

"Homemade sausage" was attracted me to stop by and get a try.

The one rolled with rice cake is tasteless... expected... hehe.

Lotte Department Store @ Nampo-dong... Sky Garden!

Dinner at Lotte Department Store@Seomyeon. Not much ingredient... not cheap right?

~ Day 2 - END ~

Day 1 - KL - Busan (Taejongdae-Seomyeom)

Day 2 - Busan (Jalgachi Fish Market - Gamcheon Culture Village - BIFF/Yongdusan Park/LOTTE)

Day 3 - Busan - Seoul (Geosugong - Cheonggyecheon Stream - Insadong Market)

Day 4 - Seoul (Gyeongbokgung - Bukchon Hanok Village - LOTTE Mart - Namdaemun Market)

Day 5 - Seoul (War Memorial Museum - Myeongdong/LOTTE Duty Free)

Day 6 - Seoul - Busan (Ewha Womans University - Changdeokgung - Dongdaemun)

Day 7 - Busan - KL (Haeundae Beach - Gwanglli-bridge)
My South Korea Itinerary

Friday, July 25, 2014

Busan - Taejongdae Park (태종대 유원지)

Category:

Scenic Spot

Direction:

Seomyeon (Exit 1) → bus stop at about 100meter → take Bus 88 → get off at Taejongdae Terminal (last stop)
~1 hour journey.

Altenatives direction:
(a) Metro Line 1 Nampo (Exit 6) → Bus 8, 30, 66, 88 → get off at Taejongdae Terminal
(b) Metro Line 1 Busan station (Exit 7) → Bus 66,88,101 → get off at Taejongdae Terminal

This is where the bus stop. Along the way, you will see the Taejongdae signboard in brown color.

About 150m walk to the entrance.

After another 200m up hill walk (tiring~)... we have arrived a station where to get a ride to round the park.

For the shuttle train, it cost 2,000 won which you may ride unlimited time within a day. There was long queue even though in weekday.

Our 1st stop: Observation Platform.

Cliff at 1st stop

From Observation Platform, walk ~80m... arrived Yeongdo Lighthouse which is the main attraction view point.

"Under the lighthouse of this resort is a rock called Sinseon Rock, named after the myth that gods and goddesses came down here to relax. At this rock is a figure called Mangbuseok, named after the story of a woman who waited for her husband who had been taken to Japan" - visitkorea.or.kr.

I guess this is the rock it mentioned.

This is the route that shuttle train will bring you. We had missed Taewon Pebble Beach, Gumyeongsa Temple and Taejongsa Temple. I would like to go all but my partner not really willing to do so. Why? 1. hot 2. walk a lot 3. not many people get off to that point 4. Hard to get into train because most of time full of people. We had passed by the last station- Taejongsa Temple. It is blossom but need to walk... up hill again.

Worth to go? Hmm... not really.

back to Day 1 - Busan
Next: Day 2 - Busan

South Korea Trip - Day 1 - Busan

WELCOME TO BUSAN!

Arrived at 8:30am

After exited the departure hall, we found a 7-11 store in our left hand side. What we want to buy in 7-11 store? Of cause is buying transportation card like T-money or Cash Bee. This is used to pay for taxi fares, public buses and subways in several different metropolitan cities and locations, and in some cases, transactions at convenience stores.

Price: 2,500 won (non-refundable). We top up 25,000 won. Enough? Hmm... not really :) In Busan, min fare is 1,200 won. Depend on distance, there is same fare if you transit to few stations.

Walked out from Airport building and walked to Metro Train building which opposite on right of the Airport. Taking their metro train to Seomyeon station which our motel located at.

On the way walking to our motel, we saw a food banner and turned into the alley. We found behind/center of this building has some local food stalls. I guess it is market. We looked around, we can't find more food picture display outside (since we don't know Korea language). We just simply stopped by one of a stall which have picture displayed. The boss is so friendly to welcoming us. We put down our luggage and tried to make order. We would like to have something hot, but their do not understand any single of English. After duck and chicken talk, we surrender and just point to the picture which we know they are noodle in cold soup. By the way, the boss is so friendly and showing us how to eat this type of noodle by adding some sauces :)

It is not so difficult to find if you follow exactly what Google map shown. Lift is only available up to 3rd floor. Lift area is small. I think only can fit 2 persons plus some luggage. Overall, I'm satisfied their room and toilet condition. We are staying at 3rd floor. This motel surrounded by restaurants and convenient store. So no worries about your eat. And, this area happening at night. You won't not see many people during day time.

I have forgot to print out my itinerary and no internet available. We had wasted our time to get these 2 things where we not willing to direct connect to our Malaysia internet (it is expensive) at initially. Anyway, after worked hard to find WIFI, we have to turned on to mobile data and asked my friend to send me my itinerary file. Initial plan is to go Beomeosa Temple > Taejongdae Park. Each of these 2 places need to take about 3 hours for round trip. Due to time constraint, we only can choose one. So we choose to Taejongdae Park since it is less time than Beomeosa Temple. After online search, direct take bus from Seomyeon station is more convenient.

Here we go! This is the last stop of bus #88. We need to walk up to the main entrance.

Here is Taejungdae Park's signature landmark. To read more -> Taejungdae Park.

This is the dumplings that we bought from Lotte department store at Seomyeon station. Size is big and taste is good. I think they used to put chicken and glass noodle. Anyway, I still prefer Malaysia Chinese dumpling because the taste is more stronger :)

These are Korean famous drinks - Banana milk. It is hard to get the banana flavor milk in Malaysia. At first, I thought they only have banana flavor. Now I only know they have more flavors! (pure milk, honeydew, strawberry etc)

Street food! Fried fish cake, fried green chilli, fried prawn, fried crab stick etc.

2,000 won for 3 items. The taste is not bad. I saw local people put 'sauce' in float. What we called in malay is "banjir". Since we do not know the taste, so we just request only some. I wish I could have 1 more try... hmm...

Our 1st dinner in Korea. This restaurant just near by our motel. Why we choose this restaurant? Because of its reasonable price lah~ We are not come here for food. So we did not really emphasize on their food. Anyway, the taste is good!