Korea in Aug 2010 (Part 3 of 3)

The final part of the Aug trip to Korea is to Everland!!

Everyday is a holiday at Everland! Everland is at another part of Seoul where we need to take an 1 hr bus ride (~10,000won). The entry tickets to Everland is about 45,000 won per person.

The wet weather makes our mood slightly dampened, wearing our poncho around in Everland. We went for a quick fast food bite.

The Korean version of KFC

Still drizzling, we went to the animal zoo part of Everland.

Creepy huge spider

Red Footed Tortoise

Pretty Parrot

Some bird, with perfect posture!

Porcupines

One lonely African Wild Ass

Sleepy Owl

Polar Bear

Baby lions

Squirrel

Cocks and Hens

In Everland's Poncho

We came to Everland, specially for this. Wooden Roller Coaster which inclines at 77 degree! Which meant that you are almost falling perpendicular to ground.

T-express

The 77 deg fall

Wooden Structure!

A video of the ride

An overview

Bus ride into wide zoo

The boar

Tigers

Giraffes

A show to complete the day

We took a 2 hr bus + train ride and were both tired out by the day's event.

We are due for home on 1st Sep evening flight. So we did last minute shopping and caught the flight home.

But before we board the plane, we had our luggage-overweight saga. Our luggage were 13kg overweight, and it will cost us $500. But God's grace is with us. I prayed hard and asked for someone to help. The first guy is a Korean who spoke perfect English, but the girl at the reception refused to allow us to tag along his luggage limit. I prayed even harder, for a second guy. This time, I walked further away from the counter and prayed exceptionally hard for someone who might be on business trip flying back home. And God respond with the perfect person. A person who had no luggage to check in and whom trusted us. He didn't even bother to open up the luggage as we offered to, but grabbed it and checked it in for us. I couldn't believe how much gratitude I have, and the unexplainable joy that God answered my prayer is the most perfect way.

Also, thank God we came back one day early! Typhoon struck one day later and grounded all planes. Praise God for all the grace upon us.

Korea in Aug 2010 (Part 2 of 3)

Ever since the Korea trip, I have been very addicted to Baskin Robbins's Yoghurt Ice-cream! It is really nice. And they have lovely cakes selections!

Pretty, isn't it? And it is affordable. Most of them priced less than 24,000won for the most sophisticated design.

When we reach hotel and settled down, its already late noon. We lugged 3 luggages in stormy weather and were dead tired by the time we are safe in Seoul Hostel.

We decided on lunch/dinner somewhere near our hostel which in Insadong. We shared a Bibimbap and a Kimchi Fish Soup.

We popped over to Dongdaemun that night for a simple sight seeing. And a hearty cup of yoghurt drink to complete the tired day.

However, things did not go well for Janet! She had adverse reactions to the food we had yesterday! It is either

1) Fish

2) Yoghurt

3) Rain (We were drenched while lugging our luggage to Seoul)

And what made worse is that there is no clinic on weekends! And hospital charges exorbitant prices! 300,000 won! We had to settle with some chinese medication from the Pharmacy. And we had to battle the language barrier.

We mainly did shopping at Myeong Dong (again) with Ding Tai Fung for lunch and Ginseng Chicken for dinner! Missy Janet puked them all out though. Poor friend!

After resting early, we are out again to Myeong Dong (again)!

But this time round, food is kinder on her tummy. And it went well! YAY!

A short shopping and we head in search of our Hello Kitty Cafe! It wasn't as easy to find, but thankfully we went into a convenient store to ask for directions and the nice lady drew a really comprehensive map for us!

The hello kitty cafe is near a women's university and the streets near there are fun! Both of us had a nice evening stroll before heading back and ending the day. :)

The next morning, we hit GyeongBokGung Palace! The weather is so hot that it made me really grumpy! And I need to buy myself a bottle of Pepsi to kill my grumpiness!

In the afternoon, to beat the heat, we went to spa! Spas are relatively much much cheaper and common in Korea! Its like 10,000 won (SGD12) for a 12 hour spa pass!

Its a really lovely experience! And would love to be back for the Spa!

Bible Expo 2010, Incheon Korea

And when we left for Seoul the next day, I specially went to Bible Expo to take a look. Initially, they didn't allow us in, but later ran back to us, and invited us in.

Probably, because we are tourist. I'm glad they did, a typhoon came 5 days later and swept them to pieces. :( At least, they won one big praise from yours truly. And for this, I will post the pictures one by one, instead of collaging them together.

So this is at the door of the Expo.

the BIBLE EXPO 2010.

And we first enter the world of the old testament.

As you can see, it is work in progress. So there's people hanging around here and there preparing for it.

This should be setting in Egypt.

Offering time

Slavery in Egypt

Discovering of baby Moses

Famine and the dying of the first borns.

Moses

The ten commandments.

They made an idol and worshipped it.

Modern Christmas

There are a lot of work in progress. Its a pity that a typhoon strikes a week later and swept everything. :( I went back a month later only to find the remains.

Still, it is work well done, for God. :)

Korea in Aug 2010 (Part 1 of 3)

The second trip to Korea was with a close colleague of mine. And we extended the trip and had hell lots of fun!!

And Incheon is having some triathlon, and most of the hotels were fully booked.Try as much as we could, we can only get a suite room in Songdo Park Hotel. And here we go! On 21st Aug!!

And the usual stuff I can't resist - Baskin Robbin Yogurt Ice Cream and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!

We venture out to Namdaemun the next day!

It is summer and it is scorching hot. We couldn't stay long in the heat and had to seek air conditioned shelters.

The next day we had simple Korean food - affordable and yummy!!

The raw beef bibimbap is heavenly!!!! It is not my first time trying raw beef, but raw beef made into bibimbap is really irresistible!! *drool*

And after which, we went to shop at Gangnam! :D

Gangnam is like Raffles Place of Singapore. I like the shopping, though not exactly cheap.