Woke up quite early in the morning to catch Naminara Republic shuttle bus to Nami Island... which depart from Tapgol Park at 9.30am....Our itenary for today is Nami Island-Cheoggyecheon Stream and Dongdaemun for shopping... So very excited... we will visit the famous filming location in Korea.... a must visit place is Korea.... Asked the easiest way to Tapgol at the concierge desk.... and he gave us the map from the hotel to Tapgol Park...See...the hotel even prepare a guide map....complete...But we lost for half an hour...
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| Ready to go |
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| High rise building |
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| Map |
Found this place while finding our way to Tapgol Park.....forgot to read the information of this park... busy to find our way to the Tapgol park... and looked around for clue...
Asked one Korean lady for direction.... sign language...ha ha ha ha funny but 감사함니다...We found the park after walked about 10 minutes to the direction the lady showed us... A bit information on Tapgol Park... The reading of the Declaration of Independence was done here and this place is one the important part of the Korean independence movement (March 1st Movement 1919). It was once a Buddist temple, the site of 15th centrury Buddist temple and and gets its name from the Wongaksa Pagoda (10 storied stone pagoda). There are lot of monuments can be found in the park, mostly representing or dedicating to the patriots and victims of Japanese brutality
(Wikipedia, 2011).
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| Tapgol Park Entrance |
Found our bus at the right side of the park... and walaaaaaa.... there's Insadong...<big grin>...Tips: Naminara Republic provides a daily trip to Nami Island from Insadong and it cost KRW23,000 round trip (bus ticket+ferry+admission). Reservation is required at least one day before your trip... but please book early... since it is always full... Please visit their website or drop by Nami Island Seul Center office at Insadong.....
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| Salesman |
Sadly... we didn't get to go to Nami Island today... we've been told that our name is not in the list of passenger.... gosh... what happened... they had sent us confirmation on the reservation... Special thanks to Kim from Naminara Republic office Insadong... who came specially to meet us and explain what had happened... there was mistake from their side that they didn't record our reservation... He helped us to process our reservation for wednesday.... Because of this we change our plan to Everland.... and guide us how to go there from their office... It was lucky we had our itinerary ready... we can easily know what to do next...
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| To Everland |
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| Greeted by Tulip |
Went to the nearest subway... then catch bus no 5002 to Everland.... Attraction at Everland will be animal safari (white tiger) and Tulip Festival (March 18th - May 1st 2011). Everland is having their own festival all year around based 4 season theme.... they have rose festival in May and winter festival.... a lot more.... Information available at their website... Entrance fee for Everland is KRW38,000... but there is special discount coupon for tourist...can be downloaded from their website....
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| White Tiger |
Then we went to Dongdaemum at night... The market is open until 5.00am in the morning... Took subway do Dongdaemun history abd cultural park station (line 2,4 and 5) from our hotel after took a bath and food....
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| Sculpture from recycle bottle |
Can choose which shop you prefer... along the road... there's also shop that sell various item... including street food....
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| Street food |
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| Yummy...But seriously don't know what it is... |
At the end only the guys bought 1'shirt... The ladies just did window shopping. Went back to the hotel at around 3.00 am by bus no 11.... leglah..... subway only operating till 11.00pm or 12.00am.... can't remember...
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