Sunday 11 December 2011

Winter trip to South Korea Dec 2011 - Day 2

Day 2 ( Itaewon - KTO - Chenggyecheon stream - Gyeongbokgung palace - Day city tour bus )

We start our day by buying T money for 6 pax from the convenient store , this is the most convenient technology that easier for you to travel around Seoul by using their public transport especially the subway . We have to load the T money using the loading machine that you can find in the subway . Then you can used this either with subway or by bus . By the way , the temperature today is between 2 to 4 degree , very cold for the Malaysian , but we really can stand and enjoyed the cool weather . We thought it is already snowing but they said snow most probably by end of December .

We go to the subway line 6  and stop at line 1 Jonggak . Overthere we watch the guard changing ceremony , where they matching to the Gyeongbokgung palace from small palace walk through the Gwanghwamun gate . After that we went to KTO office , we spent sometime to see the exhibitions on the korean culture , K pop , korean foods taster etc . The good point , they allocate special praying room for muslim here , another effort by KTO to increase Muslim tourist in Korea . Here also , we met with one malaysian chinese girl whom had been for 3 mths in korea for student exchange program , what a small world !

Next we heading to the famous Chengyecheon stream , very clear and clean water . We spent some time there . We have our lunch at Dunkin Donut . We walk through the Gwanghwamun gate towards the Gyeongbokgung palace , it has very large area .

Finally , we take Seoul City bus tour (Day)  in which we already cover most of the Seoul attraction places ie 43 stops interesting tourist spot ....namely Namsan Tower , the palaces , War Museum , traditional village ...etc. We stop at the Itaewon  near the hotel and have our dinner at Maharaja Restaurant . It cost us for 85000 won ( RM255) , very expensive but what do you expect coz Seoul is one of the expensive asia city .

Night time , we spent our time again at the Cheongyecheon stream . The scenery much more beautiful at night .After spending some time , we headed back to our hotel for a good night sleep.......



Morning ..... View in front of hotel
start walking to the Itaewoon  Subway station

Subway line 6
awaiting for subway to arrive

Exit Jonggak subway station
just across the road .. an old palace

infront of the palace

my youngest son

with his sister

a family photo with the Korean guard snapped by a friendly Korean

the guard start marching

infront of the signboard

the famous stream in Korea

it is infront of KTO office building

KTO buiding

inside KTO

the picture of KPOP group

traditional Korean cloth

another view near the stream

another  Kpop star...

Girl with white cap is a chinese malaysian student

outside of the KTO ... nice art display

with daughter

very clean stream

crystal color of water

really awesome view

one family

snapped by a friendly Korean

eldest son

love the hot chocolate

second son

the menu with price

infront of the Dunkin Donut

infront of the famous palace

the palace ... we just have sightseeing at outside

daughter with beautidul green grass

inside the Tour bus

makan time ..........

we have our foods at this Indian restaurant near the Itaewoon area

At night ... back to the stream

night view ... the road still busy

view of the stream at night

really awesome

back to our hotel ..... Good night !


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