Monday, January 02, 2012

Jeju: Honeymoon Island Day 1

Day 1 of our Jeju Trip, planned by me!

After getting our rented car from the car company near the airport, Anqi drove us to the Backpackers Home located south of the island. Just for 22,000krw per night, it was one of the best guesthouse ever! Really clean and good. And breakfast was awesome. U will see why in the next post.


After settling down, we headed for lunch just opposite the guesthouse.
 My Beef hotpot soup:

Then we headed over to our 1st attraction: Samyang Black Sandy Beach. The sand is really black and glittery!

Then, nearby is the Manjanggul Lava Cave. Cold and dark inside.

And this is the the longest lava column in the world to be discovered:

After that, we headed over to the Gimneyong Maze Park which is just a stone's throw away from the cave. Me and LL got lost in the maze...


Ohwells, dinner was bbq pork!

After dinner, we headed over to the Controversial Loveland.










Apparently most of the people were bored by this museum and didn't even walk around much.....like why? Just keep an open mind and learn about all these stuffs lah...but ohwells, at least I enjoyed my lesson. haha

That's all for the 1st day. I guess everyone is tired out from the flight. So much that we skipped the morning attraction to the Sunrise peak the next day.


At least the guesthouse is freaking awesome.

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Sunday, January 01, 2012

Korea with LL: Seoul and Busan

After the trip to Nami Island, LL and I headed back to Seoul for 1day before flying off to Jeju the next morning.

head this awesome porridge at a restaurant that serves alot of japanese customers: doesn't come cheap I tell u. S$10+ for a bowl.

my pumpkin porridge:

his seafood abalone porridge:


after breakfast we headed over to Namsangol Hanok Village

some performance going on:







and I finally got to try out what I wanted to do when I'm in korea, for 3000krw.

try out the traditional hanbok!

there were various types to choose from. and LL wanted the king's robe so I choose queen's one too

 

this is what the queens like to do in dramas rite?


I absolutely loveee the color

some traditional games:
 



then we headed over to this time capsule nearby.

this stone thingy stores all korean cultural stuffs. in order to celebrate Seoul's 600th anniversay, the time capsule was buried under the ground in 1994, and will open 1000 years later. cool huh?

ok after the traditional village we headed to Hongdae. This place called Sangsangmadang. Its a building with all things artsy. LL bought a few things there.


We had lunch here too. my risotto looks great. and tastes great too.

his prawn and lobster with bacon. which is great too.


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Ok lets skip the Jeju trip first for later and fast forward to LL's last day in Korea, which is Busan.
I brought him to the Haeundae Beach.

And to the top of Lottle Department Store in Nampodong.

Awesome night view I tell u

And we went to have seafood feast in Jalgalchi Market.


Abalone!


Complimentary seafood soup from the shop. great huh.

hee and I got my anniversary surprise from LL. a pair of earrings from Swarovski...


heee.