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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Land of the Morning Calm: Korea 2012 Day 3 (Part 2)

I'm now on the second half of my Day 3 post! So to continue:

After the morning stroll at the palace, we've decided to go back first to the hotel to take a rest and have lunch at Doota Mall. After that, we continued our sight seeing! Next stop: N Seoul Tower!

For Koreanovela Addicts, most of you would probably rememeber this place as the place where Gu Jun Pyo met with Gum Jan Di (right?haha!) in Boys over Flowers! And for Thai Movie Lovers, you would know this as the place where "Hello Stranger" was shot! Haha!

Anyway,trivia aside, The "N" in N Seoul Tower stands for "NAMSAN"; it is a mountain located centrally in Seoul where a tower is situated, and which is viewable from all points around the city. Seoul tower is famous for the "LOCKS OF LOVE", wherein couples would bind their own locks on the railings and would throw the keys (not allowed anymore, so just keep it haha!) as to signify "Forever". They said that a koreanovela actually started this "act" and everyone else just followed; and now, the whole deck is full of locks! Amazing!

You would actually feel the love upon ascending the decks and it is just REALLY MAGICAL! Love!

When going here, you can either take a bus or hire a taxi like we did. If you have a private car, you could park it and from there you'll ride the namsan cable car in going to the mountain ( we did this the first time, but since we have a 2-year-old with us, we chose the more convenient way).

Trivia: it was in the cable car where jun pyo and jan di slept during their first date hehe

Anyway, here are the pics:

(Lunch at Doota)

(Road going to the top)

THE Locks of LOVE!

( don't throw your keys! Haha!)

Now, you can go here and just take pictures on the deck or you could actually explore the entire tower and the teddy bear museum inside. We chose to do both! Hehe

(Elevator going to the top)

( observatory )

( Korean Resto HanCook! Actually there is also a rotating restaurant here in Seoul Tower but you would have to make a reservation to eat there! Wish we could eat there the next time we come back! Haha!)

( Inside the Teddy bear museum)

That's it for Part 2 of Day 3! Hope you had fun reading my post!

Xoxo,

Butchik

Land of the Morning Calm: Korea 2012 Day 3 (Part 1)

This is it!!! I'm finally Masipag!! Actually, I'm thankful to the blogger app for iphone/ipad because now, I can finally create posts even if I'm on-the-go!

So anyway, I'm now on our Third Day! Yay! I will be posting two parts for this day since it was a Long

One! Hehe! Here's Part ONE:

On our Third day, we've decided to just stroll around the city. We've started our day early and first went to Gyeongbokgung Palace. You can take the train in going here since it's literally in the middle of the city, with it's own station. One of the things that we love when travelling in a foreign country is the fact that we can actually take the public transportation, which we don't get to do in the Philippines.

There are a lot of Palace around Seoul,so you have to choose the ones that you would like to explore. As for us, we were torn between Gyeongbokgung (The Largest Palace) and Changdeokgung Palace (The one with a secret garden). However, we chose Gyeongbokgung since it holds more history.

(Trivia: It was in Gyeongbokgung where the first source of Electricity in Korea was generated via the big Hall located inside the Palace. This was also where the Royals held their parties before; will show you the pics later)

We strolled around the palace; but since it was already our second time (my mom,dad,sister,and I) we just took a rest, and let my brother and sister-in-law to roam around hehe. It was really a perfect day to just sit down and enjoy the cold weather. It was not really full-time spring yet when we came, so there were not too many cherry blossoms this time as compared to our first visit. But still, the palace looked great and it was just really the perfect day! Here are the pics from palace: