Korea Day8

23 Oct, Day 8

This day was a booked tour day.

Booked a tour to go Nami Island, Petite France & The Garden of Morning Calm.

There’s a bus that will bring us to the destinations. The walking that we would do, would be just at those places, so our legs would be saved? 😊

We had to be at Myeongdong Station Exit 2 to meet up with the guide. He had messaged me via Whatsapp the previous day as reminder etc.

Don’t know where exactly is Exit 2, so we took the Subway to Myeongdong, although walkable, and use the signage in the station to go to Exit 2.

I booked it from Klook as well.

We were early, and there were people there already and the guides were there as well.

Once the people were more or less there, the guide gathered us and guided us to our bus.

The route would be to Petite France, then Nami Island, then The Garden of Morning Calm.

It took about an hour+ to reach Petite France. We had about 1.5 hours there. More than enough.

I remember the guide said it was built by a rich man, who got fascinated with France, and bought lots of items related to France and set up this place. Then made it available to public after that.

Then, I wasn’t paying good attention, so… :P

I saw this place from Running Man show as well as The Zone: Survival Mission.

Some of the things there are quite eerie if you are along in the place. Some dolls looked, well, not the kind I would like to see.

Taking pictures outside would be simpler. Nice weather, a bit cold though.

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Enough pictures, then the bus took us to Nami Island, Ferry terminal to get over to the Island.

The guide also shared that lunch can be done at the Island itself, or at a dakgalbi (spicy grilled chicken) restaurant just at the Ferry terminal area. The guides would help both sets of visitors whichever option they choose.

Lunch first or take ferry to Nami Island first.

We chose lunch first and did the dakgalbi.

They had stir-fry and BBQ version. We chose BBQ. They had a fried rice option, but that comes with stir-fry version, which we didn’t know before that.

Anyway, doesn’t matter. I am sure we ordered enough to fill our tummies. 

The food was good! Just a little spicy, still ok for Zyan to eat.

He’s a problematic guy.

Eat until very full, then the guide helped the lunch goers to board the ferry.

The ferries depart about every 20 mins, so we needed to watch out time to be back on time for next destination.

Nami Island is nice. However, very crowded. Not sure if it is due to it being a Sunday as well.

As you get older, you tend to stay away from crowded places. LOL

Karinna’s main idea is to see the autumn red foliage leaves. It’s getting redder, but not that red yet.

Some of the trees were, I guess I would get nicer in the next few weeks.

We didn’t walk the whole island. The time we had probably would allow us to do that. 

We walked around some distance and ensuring that we had enough time to make it back to take the ferry to meet up with the guide. :P

It’s important to adhere to timing when doing a tour with a group.

Somewhere near the central part of the island, there were some activities that people can pay to try.

Zyan tried.

Young man, ok to try. Old man, old woman, don’t want to try. LOL

A video was taken for Zyan during his paid activity. 😊

Then we took a slow walk back, bought coffee, sat down a little here and there.

When we go back to the bus, we were probably 10-15 mins early. Well done!

The drive to the next destination, took a little longer. Partly due to bad traffic that day.

The Garden of Morning Calm was also originally a private place. But I didn’t hear the subsequent lines from the guide. Anyway, it’s ok. Just soaked in the beautiful garden. 

It’s a nice place for pictures. Looked like you can have a picnic here as well.

Good for paktor couples. LOL

Purple lalang!

Then it’s time to go back Seoul. The ride back to Seoul took like 2 hours. Bad traffic.

We were alighted back at Myeongdong.

His head very heavy!

Since we were there, we went back to the Myeongdong Kyoja place to have the kalguksu and mandu. Evening time is easier to get seats.

Hmmm…tasted better when we came here the first time. But it’s not too bad too for the 2nd visit.

Then went back to rest. Next day is a free day. Didn’t know what to do. LOL