Korea Trip Day 4

Starting our Day 4 at Sorak. 

Outside of our hotel - Daemyong Del Pino Golf & Resort

Able to catch the beautiful sunrise view of Mount Sorak from our hotel.

We had hotel buffet breakfast at 7am and off we went to Mount Sorak.

1st Destination: Seoraksan National Park 雪岳山 - Unification for Peace Buddha 青铜大佛 + Shin Heung Temple 神兴寺

V-collared bear Statue @ Seoraksan National Park

Lots of breathtaking views around! Excuse me for my "cute" hat. :D

As usual, souvenirs shops and cafes are everywhere.

Flowing water without pipe.

Entering the temple

So here's the ~15m high Buddha 青铜大佛.

Ok. Time to go from kid look to mature look~

You could write your wishes on these tiles. Not for free thou~

Water of longevity

Spectacular, isn't it?

Elaine and I

:)

I find this place cool as one side of the trees were barren and the other side were still having leafy greens.

I wonder will there be any water flowing along this river if it wasn't winter.

Ah Wen and me

2nd Destination: Yeoju Premium Outlet 骊州名牌购物中心
Along our way heading for lunch before to Yeoju Premium Outlet, snows were falling from time to time. We requested to go down to experience it.

Snowman made! Not by me thou~ =p

Enough with the snow, it's time for lunch.

Having 马铃薯炖豚骨汤. The soup was fragrantly cooked and heated with pork ribs.

Korean sitting~

Reaching Yeoju Premium Outlet. Raining and snowing at the same time.

Christmas is around the corner!

Heavy snow!! YEAH!

3rd Destination: Everland Resort 爱宝乐园

A short shopping experience at Yeoju, our trip proceeded with Everland, some sort like Disneyland. Upon reaching, we had to take a short bus shuttle to the theme park.

While waiting for our entrance tickets to be purchased, took a short with the nicely-dressed staff.

Entering~

4th Group Photo - Everland Resort 爱宝乐园

1st activity we did there - Animal show

2nd - Visiting a short part of the zoo

3rd Activity - Safari 

White Tiger; Lion; Tiger; Liger (Breed of Lion and Tiger)

Huge bear hungering for food from the bus driver

4th Activity - Ghost House in which we were in a group of 4, sitting in a moving cram and moved into the dark, not spooky house, and shoot the so-called ghost which were lightened with green lights. >.<

The last activity we enjoyed was the Moonlight Parade. We waited for the time and the lights along the street was turned off, staffs were dancing with the theme park song.

Beautiful floats

The performers were also wearing lighted costumes and dancing along their way

Day and night shooting

Leaving Everland, it was time for food again. Getting hungry frequently due to the cold weather.

Having Korean BBQ tonight! 

As usual, after dinner, we would be heading straight to hotel. Moving to a new hotel in Seoul tonight - Manu.

Small but decent room

There are lots of convenience stores around Korea, so we walked our way to the nearby store to do some shopping. :)

Bought this recommended wine. They said it was good, but..... I don like it.

Cookies and cream ice cream (~ 800 to 1,000 KRW). Not nice.

Korea Trip Day 3

We started our 3rd day even earlier as we had to catch a morning flight back to Seoul Gimpo Airport, taking T'way Airlines. Breakfast was not as luxurious as yesterday's. We were taken to 富豪, which we had dinner on our first night, to have abalone porridge. The abalone pieces were in small bits, so I did not take any photo of. We were also served with complimentary dim sums of steamed dumplings and soft pau.

Steamed dumplings and pau. The dumplings tasted bland, but the pau texture was good. It was very soft.

There we went again~~ Flying~~

Caught a shot with Korean Air Hostess who I find quite good-looking. :D

Once we got to Seoul, we were brought for lunch first, having 春川炒雞排.

春川炒雞排. Stir-frying process. A mix of mainly chicken pieces, rice cake and cabbage.

The way we were taught to eat. Wrapped in lettuce including the side dishes provided and their sauce. Yummy!

Done with eating it with fresh lettuce, another method to enjoy the dish was to add in rice and some seaweed slices and tadaa~ Here came the fried rice! Very nice too!

1st Destination: Nami Island 南怡島Completed our lunch, we were ready to take off to the famous Nami Island 南怡島 where shots of the famous drama, "Winter Sonata 冬季恋歌" was taken. To get to Nami Island, we had to get on board a ~15mins ferry ride.

Upon reaching, there were many nicely designed signboards and shops. 

3rd Group Photo - 南怡島

Upon reaching, our tourist guide did not give us any time to take any pics along our way until we reached the main spot.

So, here we were! At the famous Winter Sonata's filming spot!

Taking turns in group for photo-shooting here, we were given time to snapshot places around the island.

I'm so tiny!

Haha!

;)

Now you know where I took my Title Background from. :P

Lovely yellow leaves. Autumn feel! But it's kinda stinky cos of the fallen ginkgo. 

Introduced by our guide to try this hot steaming red bean white pau (1000 KRW). Slurps~

We were the first group to get back to the desired waiting spot.

Cute ferry

At the entrance

My tourist guide bought me this coffee! So good! I mean the coffee. =P

2nd Destination: 春川明洞

After Nami Island, we headed to 春川明洞, in which the first stall we encountered was the famous Fat Mama Fruits House 胖阿姨水果店. She was there to greet us. However, her painful leg prevented her from entertaining us, so her daughter did all the servings. Served us with delicious fresh fruits like strawberries and pears. The dried persimmon was very good too. We bought the dried persimmons packets as souvenirs and one big packet of strawberries (20,000 KRW).

胖阿姨水果店

Carried on with some shopping at the street with the help of some bargaining from our tourist guide and we bought a ear cover for just 3,000 KRW, which would cost around RM10. In Kuching, the cheapest we could get I think would be RM30 and the quality would not be that good. Visiting a nearby bakery store next to 胖阿姨水果店, we were buying some pastries which we found them tempting.

Got this (1,500 to 2,000 KRW) as we were told that this was their hottest-selling item. Very soft baked bun with red bean and chewy custard inside. Yum yum!

3rd Destination: 大浦巷海鲜市场 

It was cold and dark despite it's only 6pm, so we just took a short time to walk around. The stalls were distributed into 2 buildings, selling wet and fresh seafood, and cooked food.

What's this??

Bargaining~~

Cooked seafood

Dealing with the merchants

Having fried rice wrapped in fresh squid (5,000 KRW). No regrets!! So good!!

Off next we were taken for dinner.

Our dining place, but we were not seated here. Instead we were having dinner on the other corner with chairs.

Our Dinner! Steamboat consisting of seafood.

Done with a big tummy, we headed straight to our hotel at Sorak - Daemyung Sorak Resort.

We were given rooms with korean sleep on the floor. Looks like a house to me as there is a dining place with stoves etc.

What I did first when we got back to the hotel. ENJOYING STRAWBERRIES!

After settling down, we walked our way to the hotel's grocery store. Here I was hunting for snacks. :P

Got myself ice cream again. Almond Pistachio Flavor Ice Cream (~1,000 KRW). Tasted weird. >.<

Done for our 3rd day! Time for bed, sleeping in korean style tonight on the warm heated floor! :D