Seoul Trip 20-28th May Day 1

We departed from Singapore at 0800hr and arrived at Seoul around 1535hrs on the 20th May. After clearing immigration, we had to walk a long way to take a train to our destination : Jongno-3-ga. Travelling time = 1hr 15mins. 屁股都要开花了。。。

We couldn't find our hotel when we first exited the station.... Everywhere's in Korean language. Very tourist unfriendly. No one speaks English too.. but you can try your luck in speaking in mandarin and japanese. Nevertheless, we managed to find our way after going the wrong way.. LOL.

We spent our first 2 nights at Jongno Amare Hotel - A typical love hotel. Haha. Open concept toilet with a big Jacuzzi tub, huge TV with programmes all in HD! This hotel has very good service. Besides friendly and helpful staff, they had 2 desktops (OS is in korean) in the room (thus, free wifi) and free drinks in the minibar. As they are supposed to be a love hotel, they don't provide any breakfast. However, there's complimentary coffee (from coffee machines and not those cheapo types) right at the side of the reception area. :) Here's a pic on part of our room.

After putting down our luggage and rest for a bit, we went out to Insadong - within walking distance from our hotel. So convenient! Took a lot of pictures but only selected a few to post here. There were a lot of street vendors and we were even lucky to saw a lotus lantern festival parade while we were up at this special, artistic building.

There was also a little corner with lots of love notes tied to the fence. Some were even found on the trees nearby. Very colorful and romantic~!

After the parade, we headed down to the street and walked back to our hotel area to have our dinner. Our first korean meal - cold noodles with bulgogi pork. The meat was nice.. and noodles were VERY chewy.. but I just didn't like the extreme coldness of the noodles. I prefer Cha/Zaru Soba though. LOL.

Oh, the left corner pic was a package of roasted chestnuts. It's selling everywhere too. They looked big and tasty.. but when I bought to try after dinner.. it was very dry and semi-sweet only. Felt cheated. Haha.

Last picture of this post.. I bought foot cream to use first coz my heels were cracking.. and 3 hairclips from a street vendor. Mine is the red one! I'm giving the other 2 to my nieces (sis's one). Refrained from purchasing too much from those cosmetics shop, coz they are everywhere and I will leave it to the last day. :)

P.S : All photos were taken and edited by my dear. :)