My Trip to Korea!
April 24-30
We left Denver at 8:00(am) on Tuesday the 24th and arrived in Seoul around 15:30 on Wednesday the 25th. The most I remember about the flight is having to wait 20+ minutes to use the toilet because the K-girls were brushing their teeth.
After going through customs at the airport, we got to our hostel around ...I wanna say it was about 19:30 but I'm not too sure now. We arrived at our hostel, a little place called "Mint Guesthouse" which was located in Hongdae with the lovely directions that were provided on the website. And when I say lovely, I really mean it. The directions were perfect. They hit every escalator coming from the subway, and were super easy to follow. The girl that was working at the hostel (and the owner for that matter) was awesome, and she offered to order us food for dinner. This was a huge help to us because we were so tired. The food was delivered to us (bibimbop) and it was amazing. There was so much food and it only cost us 10 USD total. It was shocking, but I should have expected it because Soo told me that they served huge portions in Korea.
Over the next couple of days, we went on the Palace tour. It was really easy and really cheap to get around in Seoul, even without knowing Korean. The biggest difficulty was getting food.
The first day, we totally ruined the itinerary that Katie had set up because we got a bit lost. But, everything worked out in the end.
The last day (Saturday) we went to Seoul Tower and decided to take a taxi instead of hike the mountain that it is on. That was a horrible choice- driving was a free-for all, the driver didn't seem to care that there were lines on the road, or that there were cars in his way. I believe that he also ripped us off a bit. -_-;
Earlier that day, we hit up the shopping districts and found a bunch of Kpop stuff for our friends here. It was shocking to see how much cheaper the products were in Korea than they were in Japan (but this was also two years ago when we were in Japan. Also, we found out that wasn't necessarily the case once we got to Japan again.)
Most of the trip, we ate convenience store food. We attempted to get food from a chicken place, and it was a disaster. It scared us away from eating out in general and I felt like a jerk because I couldn't order food. It was a relief to go to Japan where I can actually function.
lol I don't remember the names of any of these places.
View from Seoul Tower during late afternoon. It was so smoggy. :/
Here's the night view! :) Pretty neat, right?
