Korea Tour (part 3)

Day 4:


We woke up at the same time as day 3 at the resort by the wake up call. After we got changed into our warm clothings, we went down to B1 to have our breakfast. It was a buffet breakfast. It opens at 7 am to 9 am. They usually serves us cereal, boiled eggs, sausages, porridge, salads etc. What I'm amazed at is that the bananas are cut in half. Very rare I see those O.o.
As we step outside, it was more colder than ever. The weather was -22 C that day. Oh my!! It was also windy too. Our day starts with a walk at Cheonggyecheon Stream in Seoul, which is a river tour of course. I think Libera came to this stream before during their visit to Korea. But I'm not sure if this is the stream they went to. Anyways, the river was quite clean than our river which was filled with rubbish. One of the colleagues touch the river. But felt nothing. Maybe our hands were cold because of the weather. Ha ha!! The walk was quite long but we managed to finish it.

Can anyone translate this? :)

Next location is visiting Deoksugung palace to see the changing of the guards ceremony. But unfortunately, we didn't manage to see it due to the weather. So sad. But we must go on. As we explore the palace, Jenny explain every detail about the history of the palace. My feet are starting to feel numb during the whole event. Of course, we're not forgetting a group photo in front of the king's throne room. Outside the palace, we saw a man making some Korean words with only one hand. Amazing! O.O

Before we continue our tour for the day, time for lunch. We had Korean ginseng chicken soup. Inside the chicken has rice in it. It took me for awhile to finished everything. We even had a bitter drink which was suppose to be put into the soup. 

After lunch, we proceed on to N-Seoul Tower to observe the whole of Seoul city. It's located on top of a hill. Before we head to the observation deck, we went to Teddy Bear Museum first. It's also inside N-Seoul Tower. There are two exhibitions: One is past, and the other is present. We went inside the past museum first. Instead of using people, they use teddy bears to represent the event that people doing in the past. The teddy bears can even move too. Aren't they cute? :) 

Even in the present side, it's all the same. Same moving teddy bears. So I don't have to explain that^^.

We then went up to the deck using the elevator for a fantastic view of the city. It was amazing. Even when we went to Victoria Peak, we didn't even see the observation deck there :(. Anyways, we had our family photos of the tower. I wish you could see them. One is day time, the other is night time. 

Wow! Our day is almost done. But it's not yet finished without visiting the largest theme park in Seoul. And that is Lotte World Theme Park :D. We had 4 hours to play some rides or enjoy the view of the theme park. Once we got our 1 Day passes and a photo taking in front of the castle by Alex oppa, we're on our own. This theme park has two parks: Adventure Land (indoor) and Magic Island (outdoor). It's similar to Genting Highlands because they both have indoor and outdoor theme parks and there are some similar rides we know too. Yeah, it's like a Korean Genting Highlands and Disneyland combine together. Ha ha!!

I rode 3 rides this time than Disneyland. Plus, it's also on Wednesday, so not many people and not so crowded inside. Great :D!! Before we explore around the theme park, we sat on the monorail around the indoor park.
The first ride I rode is Pharoah's Fury. It's a roller coaster kind of ride that takes you inside the Egyptian tomb accompanied by Egyptian kind of music in the background, as if like you're in a real Egyptian cave to find Pharoah's treasure just like Indiana Jones style. Of course, the audio is all in Korean so I didn't understand what they were saying. I screamed a lot during the ride until I got no voice. Oh yes. I forgot to tell you. Before your ride, you'll see a hall of famous Egyptian artifacts. 
That was one scary ride. Next ride is Swing Tree at Magic Island. It's like a spinner ride that takes you round and round. During the ride, something thought in my mind: "Now I know why I didn't took that ride in Genting". My head was dizzy after the ride.

At first I thought this was my last ride but it's not. I'll tell you later. We went back inside Adventure Land, as it was still very cold outside. We rest our legs by sitting down on a bench behind the stage. I did have some photos with the people who dressed up as pirates. After our feet were well rested, we continue walking around.
When I saw the carousel and teens like my age riding that, I went to line up. Well, at least I have to have some non-scary rides. I had enough of scary rides for the day. But when the ride ends, my horse ends up in a higher position. I had a hard time climbing down, as I'm quite short. And that was my final ride.

Dinner is on our own again. We went to a fast food cafe and order a pizza baguette for me, since my parents don't want to eat fast food. Well, I got to taste a bit of fast food sometimes, okay. I began eating my baguette while watching a stage show. My parents went off to find a restaurant to eat. The reason why I sit there is because in case they miss the parade show, at least I get to watch. But good thing they didn't :). Mom suddenly call me to come with her to an Italian restaurant where they both had pasta for their dinner. Since I just finished my baguette, except for my fries and cola, I went back to the stage and wait for my parents there. When they came, the parade hasn't start yet, except for the crew members showing some actions to the crowd while music was playing throughout the whole park. After waiting for so long, the parade began. It started at 7 pm. It was so magical with lights and it's held in the indoor park instead of outside. But to be honest, I still think Disneyland's parade is the best. Mom took the photos of the whole parade again. Sorry if some of the photos were quite blur because of the lights on the floats and costumes and our camera quality isn't that fantastic but enjoy.

It's time to go back to the hotel. What a fun night it was. We came back to our room tired but happy :). I wonder what is gonna be installed for us on the next day.


To be continue......