It's Tika, Easy Peasy: A Magnificent Trip to Korea /02

It's always fun when you travel with your friends. We were in Seoul for 6 days and in Busan for only 2 days. All the accommodations were pretty awesome. We got a very nonsense of large room hotel, I mean a huge room. It's like more than fifty square meters for only 2 persons! The tour guides were local people, and they were all nice and friendly. There's a lot of places that we went to.

In my last post, I told you a little bit about Seoul. I'll tell you about Busan to make it even haha. Busan was beautiful, it has more beaches. The sun was more friendly in Busan. We went there by bus and it took more or less 5 hours to Busan. Before the night came, we stopped by the beach of Haeundae Beach. The next day was super great, we went to Gamcheon Culture Village and BIFF - Jagalchi Market. They were rich of cultures and I was overwhelmed by it! When I arrived in Jagalchi Market, they sold a lot of many kind of fresh fish, my mom would've loved this place.

You know, when you join the tour - you'll have anything (places, photos, souvenirs) but one thing you don't get - the experience of the space. But, thankfully we had a free day to stroll around Seoul. This was like the big part of all, strolling around the city without the rules from the tour.

I couldn't describe the spaces while I was with the tour. But when I was hanged with my friends at night through subways and the free day we had - it was beyond fine. My friends and I, who are in the same batch (2014), always had something at night from the very first day we arrived in Seoul. We got random plans to go somewhere and we were just seeing around the city, trying traditional food and taking so many pictures and videos! It was great experiencing such a good thing like that, the exploration of this trip was more than my expectations, so I was glad and grateful.

Last two days before we left Seoul (it's our free day), some of my friends separated and decided to go different places. Six of my friends and I decided to go to more traditional places, like Gyeongbokgung Palace and Namsangol Hanok Village - because the whole trip seemed to concentrate more to modern buildings than the traditional ones (we only went to two palaces and we didn't go in to the one of them). So we went there by subways. The Gyeongbokgung is located in the middle of Soeul City and apart from all those modern things, this palace stands strong and that's what I love about this city, even the country, because they look after 'the past' so well and let it stand and blend in with present's culture.

I know it's a little bit annoying, knowing that I didn't tell you my trip completely, but what I want to share about this trip is that we should respect our own country, like most Korean do that I, so far, witnessed. We should accept the globalization yet we should keep our ancient history and the core of being a good citizen.

Sunset in Busan was the greatest feeling so far in Busan.

Waveon Coffee Shop at its best spot.

Dorothea, my dear roommate who kindly accompany me wherever I went during the trip.

Beautiful colours of Gamcheon Culture Village.

There's a long queue that happened suddenly (still in Gamcheon Village), and strangely it's because of people wanted to take a picture with a statue that was facing the view.

Local Seller at Jagalchi Market.

It's my friend, Arvisista, and her exchange program friend, Youngmi - she's originally from Busan.

My friend Haura tried to negotiate a sweater's price to this old lady and I said "Hey, to make it not too intense, let's take a picture first!" Ha ha ha.