Waaaa..it’s been quite some time since my last post, so I’ll just wrap this up.  This’d be my 6^th day in Korea, the last day of city tour in Seoul.  I won’t put you through pain with long writing and all, it’ll be brief and more pictures. 

On the list for today’s activity, I had Gyeongbokgung Palace, National Museum, passing by Blue House, Ginseng Shop, Cosmetic Shop, and Shilla Duty Free Shop, and lastly Nanta Show, almost forgot about that one.

Luckily that day was splendid, very sunny, very bright, temperature was adequate, a perfect weather for a city tour.  So, I, as seen on the above picture, could comfortably wear leather jacket from Zara with sleeveless white blouse from Promod underneath , burgundy leather skirt from Missguided UK, and yes, my Stan Smith Leather Ankle Boots from Adidas Originals.  When I say “from” it means I bought it from those stores, I’m not endorsed. Unfortunately.

Built in 1395 and said to be the main royal palace of Joseon Dynasty, Gyeongbokgung Palace is the biggest palace in Seoul, also known as Gyeongbok Palace.  From the front gate, there are several gates to the main palace, and man, this palace is so big.  It has 7,700 rooms, 500 buildings, sadly the palace was burnt down during Imperial Japan invasion in 1592.  The architecture of the palace has strong influence from ancient China combined with Joseon Dynasty tradition.  More info here or here

It’s the flagship museum of Korean history and art in South Korea.  Visitors can learn about the life span of Korean folk and its culture here.  It’s located super close to the Gyeongbokgung Palace, walking distance, it’s literally behind the palace.  It's 1.5 km from Yongsan Station.

It’s served as the executive office and official residence of the South Korean head of state, the President of South Korea.  I only passed it by, like literally, saw the building from the bus.  Well, no complains here, it’s not like tourist are allowed inside. 

Now came to my least favourite part of the tour, obligatory visitation to shops.  It is obligatory, apparently in Far East, if you purchase a tour package, you must visit some store, otherwise you’ll get fined from $20-$120 depending on the store.  I mean, yes, Korean Ginseng is the best in the world, the cosmetics are really good and cheap.  Not so much on the Duty Free Shop,  it’s Shilla Duty Free Shop, owned by Samsung Group. It was super crowded, craaaaayyyyzzzzeeehhh.  I get nauseous in crowded shopping store or mall, or shopping street.  There are only two notably crowded places I can tolerate and I even love, which are Makkah and Madinah, other than those two, I’ll avoid it.

This is comedy-cooking show that incorporates cooking utensils in only 1 hour duration. Visitors are not allowed to take pictures, let alone video.  The show is funny, the casts are attractive.  You can find more info in here.

Yaasssshhhh..it’s such a long day, before I went to Myeongdong street, the group went back to the hotel to drop some stuffs, then Emily, my Lady Local Guide, showed us the way to Myeongdong street, which is really near by the hotel, it’s not even 1 km from there.  There are, I’d say hundreds stores in Myeongdong street, there’s a lot of shopping mall, some are high fashion.  It is obviously shopping street with a lot of stores, from local to international brands.  A lot of street food, so if you don’t feel like shopping, you can buy some food, which are also interesting and good.  Again, Myeongdong street is full of people!  

And that’s all for today! All I want was sleep that day, so exhausted.

I did say I’d wrap it up in this post, didn’t I? Yes, on the next day, the last day in Korea, I still had N Seoul Tower, Herb & Amethyst Shop and Chungha Duty Free Grocery.

Commonly known as Namsan Seoul Tower, it’s a communication and observation tower located on Namsan Mountain in central Seoul.  It marks the highest point in Seoul at 236 meters high.  It’s opened to the public in 1980, it has love locks everywhere, oh my God, don’t these people know that after some time these locks will be gotten rid of in order to provide places to the new love locks?

 

Btw, I didn’t go up to the top of the tower, but from what I heard it’s a little bit overrated.  

Again, the last obligatory shops.  I don’t have much to say in Herb shop, basically they promote vitamins made from herbs, so you can be healthy etc etc.  Chungha DFS is our last chance to buy Korean snacks, this one located nearby the airport, so I didn’t mind.

And yeaaahh, that’s my Korean trip.  So far, Emily and MJCT Tour is the best local guide and travel.  Golden Rama certainly had a very good job in making partnership with this korean tour & travel company.  Why do I like Emily so much? She’s actually really nice, the nicest local guide I’ve ever met within Far East area.  She did care about her tour guests, she didn’t try to be sales woman, unlike the local guide in Japan and China.  Lastly and most important, she gave us enough time to explore the objects. So, Thank you so much Emily Lee! I had a great time in South Korea :)

Sorry, you have to tilt your head a little.

So long Korea :D