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Korea Day 6: Changdeokgung Palace, Huwon, Picasso Street & HanGang River
After being chased out the day before at the first coffee prince shop, we've decided to head back there again and this time... it was empty. I was like "you're kidding right?" Anyways, we ordered coffee and a cake. My coffee was horrible cos I ordered something and assumed it would be just coffee black but it turned out that it was coffee black and lemons. Ewwww... It's like coffee turned sour and I didn't like it. Oh! I saw the rude waiter and I stared at him. I think he remembered us. ha!
After that we headed to Changdeokgung Palace and Huwon. It's a really pretty place to be for family and friends on a nice Sunday morning. Really peaceful and quiet. We took a good long stroll till we reach to the other side of the entrance. We didn't know where we were exactly but I didn't want to walk back the same place as it was pretty far. So we walk and walk until we passed by this street food stall that was selling rice cakes and maggots soup?! You read it right, it was maggot soup. Should have taken a picture down. It was like in this huge metal pot and inside was maggots and black soup. Yuck. I didn't want to try it. It was the only stall that I've seen so far selling maggots.
While we were eating and figuring out way out, suddenly an uncle popped by from beside us while we were looking at the map. Elaine got a shock. haha! Poor girl. I just felt that there was somebody else closed behind me. I presume he was like a tour guide somewhere as he was wearing KTO clothes. I told him we were looking for the nearest subway and he pointed us to where it was. We weren't lost, just looking for the subway till he popped up beside us. Then it's flea market time! We headed to Picasso street and that's where I finally see the true flea market style. I loved it till it started drizzling and people where closing up their stores. It's surprising that I didn't buy anything from there. Oh! Elaine and I saw a cute guy tending to one of the stalls. haha! :bk_love: No pictures, sorry!
We had ummm... bbq pork for dinner! I don't know what is it called exactly but it was yummy. :) There was some language drama going on there before we finally ordered our food. hahaha!
Our final stop of the day was at HanGang River. We took the magical boat and it was actually a showcase of magic. If I knew early, I'll probably chose the live one cos I prefer a live band. It was so cold that I decided to have a beer on boat. I think it was a pretty bad choice cos after half a can, my face was red and burning like a lobster. Hmmm... I can't lie when I drink. Tsk tsk. We definitely saw beautiful Cherry Blossom trees. We got semi-lost and passed by this street stall. The uncle was watching porn openly and it was a total turn off. I was grossed out, period. We headed back quite late and that was day 6 for us.
Hi! Chances upon your blOg while planning for my Korea trip next week. :) do I need to join a tour guide in order to enter changdeokgung palace? Read somewhere that you need to join a tour guide to enter or can just enter with entrance fee?
ReplyDeleteHey Aimei, I didn't join the tour. We just walked around on our own, unless you want to hear about the historical stuff on the palace, you might want to consider the tour guide. Yes - if I remembered correctly, there is a entrance fee to be paid. Hope this helps. :)
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