Fall Trip 2016 // Part II

I don't want to procrastinate again for a longgg time. So, I gather my guts to write about my last 5 days trip before 2017 ends (still February tho haha). In fact, for these past few days, I thought about what should I write because when I strolled alone I didn't take too many pictures cause I prefer to enjoy the atmosphere and my me-time. Whatever it is, I hope you won't get bored and don't finish my post until the end. haha.

At the beginning, this 5 days trip wasn't planned tho, but as I think that I need to stay longer there so I bought another ticket and postponed my original return date. Yeah, I know. A lot of people around me said that I'm crazy, and overly fond of South Korea. They said I can come back later because actually, my original ticket was very cheap (I bought that while promotion time). I don't know what exactly thoughts in my mind at that time. I just remembered that I need to stay longer. Kinda regret it now, was already came back from holiday but still need to pay the bill. LOL. Just kidding! I didn't regret it. I love it! Yey~~~

After the first 5 days, I still had a lot of places-have-to-go lists. That's why I wasn't regretting it. Haha.
I remember it clearly, the first day that I had to stroll around there I kinda nervous because it's my first time.

Fall Trip 2016

Back to routines, back to work. Back to my ordinary-not so ordinary- life.

I told you before on my previous post that I went to another country.

And the country is...*drumrolls* SOUTH KOREA.

Yap! I went to South Korea again after my spring trip last year and thanks to God that he gave me another chance to visit that country again in this fall season, which is a season that initially I wanted. Shout out for joy!~~

Unlike my previous trip, this time I was just strolling around Seoul for 10 days. I still glad tho because last year when I arrived at Seoul, me and my friend terribly got sick so yeah.. Ha!

That's okay. God give me another chance. Lol.

Together with my brother's friends, yeah I'm the youngest, we named this trip "FOOD HUNTER". Exactly! Unlike the previous year, I gained weight this time because I ate a lot, A LOT.

The best thing is that I accomplished my bucket list this year. Travel alone! Ok, let's say it's just half because I did strolling alone but still stayed together in the lodging house with one of them (my trip squad member) for the last 5 days. So, I'll write about my last 5 days on different post :)

our first meal
명동왕돈까스 - 홍대

너의 삶은 너의 선택만이 정답이다

Oh Sunday.

Hello there!

A week to go. Next Sunday I'll flight to another country.
Yey! Trip Trip Trip. It's been a long time since my last trip.
I've been waiting over 6 months for this trip. 

Feel excited? Yap. 

Feel scared? Yap too. 

Why? 

Okay, I will tell you later after I came back from my trip, which is hmmm around mid next month.

I'll go there for 10 days I guess, many places to explore and I hope this time I can do something more and find something different and unique. Feel the culture and meet local people, I hope so.

So yeah, it's just a short notice from me.

Will bring another stories about my trip and hope it will be a enjoyable story.

Love y'!

"You'll never know until you go."

Last Part of My Last Year Trip (Seoul) When will you upload it?

Nah. I think I won't upload it. Haha Instead, I will give you a link. I edited some videos from my last year trip and I think it'll enough to close my last year trip post to South Korea. I don't why but I'm not in the good mood to write and post my Seoul trip last year because me and my friend got sick when we arrived at Seoul. So, we didn't had fun enough. And… I didn't have a good story to tell because tbh, now my memories kinda a little bit blurry. 1 year 5 months already passed tho. Haha I know it was my mistake to not write and post it asap. But yeah. Pardon me.
Here's the video link :

Disclaimer : This video contained of me and my friend's face A LOT. So please, bear with it. Enjoy!

Day 5 : Last Day in Jeju Island~

Last day in Jeju..

And there was something that I felt 아까워 (I want to express it in english or indonesian, but I can't find any tho haha) about. Like I will miss this place because the nature, let's just say, before I went here I always imagine that Jeju more or less will be like Bali Island (one of famous island in Indonesia). BUT! It's different, totally different, the nature that they provide gave me different vibe. I love both for sure.

At day 5.. Where will we go?~

Seongeup Folk Village (성읍민속마을)

If you don't have chance to visit Jeju, you can visit this kind of village around Seoul (Namsangol Hanok Village) or the famous one in Yongin (Korean Folk Village). Here, you can see how Korean people used to live and their activities in past. Surely, there are some differences between these 3 village because like our country too, each place have different activities so it affected the village too. Like in Jeju, because people used to (until now) raise black pigs, they have some places to put the pigs, etc.

Day 4 : Our Destinations? Just read it on the blog :) 너무 많아서….

So, finally I continue to write about my South Korea Trip. At day 4, we visited many places at once. It felt easier because we went with guide, so we won't get lost.. So yeah..

Where to go?

Glass Castle

Our very first destination is glass castle. As you can see from their name, inside this area all were made from glass. Nothing much to do, we just took a walk, enjoy the breeze and took a lot of photos. Lol

둘 하르방

failed ㅎㅎ

made of glass tho :o

Day 3-2 : 안녕하수꽈 제주도! Hello Jeju!

If you wanna visit Jeju Island but you go there by yourself. I recommend you to use airplane (is that obvious? lol) We bought ticket beforehand which is Jeju Air because that's the cheapest one. Haha

You can buy it via internet and pay it by credit card even you're a foreigner. They make it easier now, because once my friend wanna buy one via internet but she can't because she is foreigner. Thanks, now it's getting easier.

Anyway.. Let's go go!!!!

Hello! We are ready to go to Jeju ^^

After 55 minutes flight, finally and finally….

Welcome to the biggest island in South Korea, Jeju Island!

The most demanding tourist destination, foreigner or local. For special case, many newlyweds go here for honeymoon.

Here we come!!…

돌하르방!

We took our luggage and now we had to find how to reach our hotel. As we went out from airport building, we were welcomed by rain, and it's cold. ㅠ.ㅠ

Fyi, in Jeju Island, transportation isn't as easy as in Busan/ Seoul. Then, we decided to take a taxi and below was our line to take taxi. Yuhuu~~

line for taking taxi

 Now, we felt hungry. Lucky us, we bought some snacks at Busan.

Kimbab!!!!
looks so simple, but it's so delicious!
ah, miss it :(((

I miss this kimbab so much!! You can find this anywhere, any convenience store. Cheap and delicious, around 2.000 - 4.000 KRW.

I can't eat this right now, so let's just see my photo ate this Haha

At last! Arrived at our hotel (Forest Hostel). Suprisingly, we got a great one :) Forest Hostel is a kind of guest house I think. Clean & cheap, kind of my-like thing. Haha

Laid down for a while and we were ready to get some dinner. We just realised, we just had kimbab today. What should we have for dinner? Hm… One of my friend told me that Jeju is famous for their black pork (흑돼지) and she told me that there is a place near this hotel sell a very very delicious black pork. It was still raining outside, but we didn't have any choice so we borrowed umbrella and went there by foot.

you can choose your favourite one.
why was the weather so clear? fyi, i took this on our last day.

I chose this one
Ok, this is my friend's recommendation

it was raining, right?
i love this place, wide glass window :)

packed with people.

busy..busy
eating

and here it comes, our VIP tonight
Black Pig (흑돼지)

this is what i like about Korean BBQ!
always feel like a festive even just for two

Filled up! Before going back to hostel, we bought some medicine as our body wasn't feeling well that time and barley tea (보리차) as our beverages :p

Time to recharge our energy for tomorrow. Good Night!

Day 3-1 : Gamcheon Culture Village & Flying to Jeju Island

Last day at Busan.

Seomyeon area in the morning. Sooo different tho than last night.
Fyi, it's around 10 AM

생~~~~

After had many deliberation we dedicated the last day here to go to Gamcheon Culture Village (감천문화마을), the main reason why I chose to bring my friend here, Busan.

What is Gamcheon Culture Village? Actually, it is residence area. For real! People are living there, but the residence area has an exception. It is full of art, if I can say maybe it is kind of mural village? Colourful village? Okay, I'll just  show you a lot of pictures to explain it ^^

Day 2 : Busan (Oryukdo Skywalk, Yongdusan Park, Jagalchi Market)

We tried to take a bus instead of subway at second day. Before we left our hotel, we attempted to ask the receptionist but he is japanese (broken korean, broken english T.T). Didn't know what to do so we decided to try on our own.

I wish we have this kind of public transportation too.
Clean.

It was such an amazing experience, even it means we need more effort.

Day 1 : Busan (Haeundae, Shinsaege Centum City, Gwangan Bridge)

At my last post I already told you about how I changed my schedule from 12.10 PM to 09.50 AM. Actually, me and my friend wanna stroll around first that's why we chose that schedule but because the oppa(s) really kind and wanna help us to change the schedule so we won't waste time at Incheon Intl' Airport, we just followed them. Haha

After that, I bought T-Money at ticket counter. I don't know if they don't sell t-money there. But the nice ahjussi who is in that counter help me and give his t-money to me. (So kind, right?) He even helped me and my friend to reload our T-Money card. 

Our KTX Ticket Pass

We continued to walk and try to find our train, we're not quite sure if the train was true so we asked some people there and it's right! We put our luggage at the luggage area and then we looked for our seats, but again we lost. (I knew we lost many times, even on my next stories we'll lost anytime lol). The girl that helped us before, helped us again but because of language barrier, she just told us to follow her and she pointed our seat. Thank you eonni!

Unfortunately, our seats was so far far away from our luggage, so my friend moved our luggage (2 of them) and I stayed to look after our belongings.

Finally we can sit down with peace. Pfiuhh..

To reach Busan, we have to change train at Seoul Station and the stairs's hell begin here. Our train located at Platform 1 (I'm not sure, I forgot actually haha).

We have to bring our luggage (16Kg each), no escalator!
Picture above isn't mine and it isn't my train platform.

For the first time, I felt like, "Oh my God, I'm really in Seoul now." Because as you know, this Seoul Station frequently appeared on Korean TV Shows, so... Haha

I wanna take picture here but we're afraid that we'll miss the train so we just went inside the train. 

I just took picture inside the train.
Better than no picture. ㅋㅋ

After years of waiting.. FINALLY!

As I promised I will try to write about my trip to South Korea as detail as possible and maybe it will help some of you who have a plan to visit this country.

At first, until now I am still thinking that I've been dreaming. I still not quite sure if I really visited that country. You know that feeling if you confused which is the reality or the dream one. But, after I saw my bunch of photos there, I realised that it was real. My trip.

Ok, let's start.

I went to South Korea this April, for exact date is on April 9th 2015. I went there with my friend, just two of us and that friend is a girl too. We decided to go there without tour and we arranged everything, like accommodation (hotel, plane ticket, KTX, some shows, etc), by ourselves. So, we bought the plane ticket last year, at September 2014. Since then, we arranged the next step. Like where will we go or where will we stay at or the routes and so many complicated things. Me and my friends separate our job description. ME.. listing the places and routes, booking guesthouse, hostel, plane ticket and some shows. HER...Making the itinerary (she is an expert on this thing, I can't Haha). We just finished the itinerary at the night before our departure. WOW! Many people said that we're crazy because we never been there, we can't speak korean and just two of us go there. But, my willing to go there is bigger than everything. LOL!

So I feel so thankful to my friend, that she want to accompany me to go to South Korea without tour and it means that we need more effort to arrange everything. When we arranged our itinerary and everything we often argued because of this and that. Yeah, something like that.

Day by day, month by month, I spent my time to wait for that day to come and when it finally comes, I can't believe it. Until now.

April 9th 2015

My day has finally come at the end.