Escape to South!! -- BUSAN

We run away from the coldness of Daejeon, to the South part of South Korea. The first destination is Busan!!!

Start at 10AM in the morning, we went to Express Bus Terminal from Chungnam National University, it takes like 30 minutes by bus number 102. The ticket to Busan is so expensive .. KRW22,000. Anyway, it took around 3 hours and something, I guess the bus went through Daegu. As soon as we arrived in Busan Express Bus Terminal in Nopo-dong, we went to the information center .. since we planned nothing!! hahaha so information center was our first aid ^^. Got the travel map ... and we started the travel from the closest travel spot on the map that we can go by subway which was Beomeosa Temple. If you have ever been to one of temple in Korea, I suggest you to not come to this place. Why? because I guess there is nothing special, it's all the same. But then if you want to try to have an experience of staying in a temple, you might want to come to this temple, because they offer this service.  Beomeosa temple is very close from the bus station, just take the subway and get out at the first stop Beomeosa Temple, take exit 5 or 7 and walk to a kind of bus stop, the road was kind of hilly and take the bus number 90.

While waiting for the subway, there was a guy with a cute dog suddenly talked to me. He thought I was chinese ... man~~seriously? well, it actually added my ethnicity delusion: Pinoy, Latino, Vietnamese, and hey,, the guy at the embassy thought I was mixed European and Asian ㅎㅎㅎ. Anyway, that guy suddenly touched my cheek hahah I guess he liked me ... then he advised us to go to Gwangalli Beach at night. Actually we had no plan of visiting that beach, but my friend then suggested to go there, too. Maybe my friend thought it was a mystery that a strange guy suggested us to go to that beach. So ... from the Beomeosa Temple station, we took subway to Geumnyeonsan station, took a little walk to the Gwangalli Beach where we could see the Gwangan Bridge glowing at night!!!!

View of Gwangan Bridge from Gwangalli Beach -- Thank you strange man!! ^^

we walked along the beach for a while. I fell in love with Busan since they have this kind of place. You know because you always have a place to go like this, just to hang out, to be alone, or something ^^. There are a lot of cafe and restaurant along the road, too. There is also a photo machine which you can take picture and send the picture to your email ... it's free!!!

The next day ... we visited Busan Aquarium!!Got off at Haeundae station, walked a bit and found the Aquarium next to Haeundae Beach! The normal admission fee was KRW17,000 but if you get the discount coupon you will have to pay only KRW14,000. I always like Aquarium, when I saw a certain animal there, I remember Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

@Busan Aquarium

@Shedd Aquarium

There were some show in the aquarium that you don't want to miss, like magic show (they do it inside an aquarium, too), penguin feeding show, shark feeding show, etc.

Not far from the aquarium, there is Haeundae market which sells kinds of sea product. ^^.

We actually went to some other places the night before going to aquarium, like 40 Steps Cultural Tour Theme Street and Shanghai Street, but nothing much to see.

If you are planning to go to Busan and will use subway a lot, you'd better buy a one day pass. Only KRW3,500 for the whole day!!

This is now for Busan ... around afternoon, carrying our bag, we went to the Express Bus Terminal in Nopo-dong ... bought bus tickets and heading to ... YEOSU!!

More pictures HERE!!!

December 2, 2010

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