After all this time in the Mongolian and Russian wilderness Seoul was quite the shock, albeit a good one!
For the first few nights we were based in Yeongdeungpo district, with the little streets packed with restaurants and bars. And Speaking of restaurants, the number one thing we did in South Korea was eating 🤤 Just too many things to try and taste! And it was always great! Okay maybe except once were Melanie led us into a restaurant only serving guts, but we couldn't read the menu 🙈 Was quite chewy 🤣
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| Love the busy streets |
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| Night life |
Besides bars and restaurants there were lots of little "hotels" for romantic excursions 😍
More than once during our stay in Korea we had hotels which were clearly catering to couples. Often the wallpaper had a "romantic" touch or tried to be "classy" with logos of European brands or text in German! which didn't make any sense 😆
Hair brushes and combs, not the single use kind! were common. Also condoms (single use😜) and lots of cosmetic products and tinctures were standard in almost any room we had all over the country. As in Japan you would often get some slippers and leave the shoes at the entrance. Another speciality which almost every room had was a computer! I guess you've got to get your StarCraft training in everywhere 😜
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| Speak easy bar, entrance through the fridge! |
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| Eating and drinking |
Apart from eating we did some shopping 😄 Having left the charger for my MacBook Air in the car we visited the famous Yongsan Electronics Market. *
Hundreds if not thousands of little stalls selling all kinds of electronic stuff. To stay connected we got ourselves a unlimited 4G data SIM card which worked perfect. The translation apps helped quite a bit getting around as not much is labeled in English! Speaking of apps, Google Maps doesn't work in South Korea! Apparently the one thing North Korea has that the South doesn't, link 🤷♂️ We used the local mapping apps from Kakao and Naver but mainly relied on OpenStreetMaps.
We also had to stroll through the Myeondong shopping street with its many little boutiques. Selling mainly cloths, shoes and cosmetics. And yes that how it sounds with every other shop blasting its tunes out into the little alleys 😵
All this shopping obviously came at a price... As we entered South Korea only with our (rather small) backpacks a little trolley was needed 🤦♂️ Still less luggage as the average Thailand-Backpacker 😂
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| The LandCruiser wouldn't fit either 😆 |
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| Getting our shoes repaired on the street |
As a typhoon was heading to Seoul we decided to leave the city and take the train to head south east, avoiding the storm and rainy weather!* After getting the MacBook stolen in South Africa I've got now two chargers left but no MacBook 🙈🙄
