August 21, 2012
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Trip to Korea Day 2
Woke up 6am, slept and next thing, it was 9am already. The thing about staying in a hotel with no windows is you lose track of time and can just keep sleeping indefinitely. Wife woke up about an hour earlier apparently and let me sleep in.
Decided that room was okay and we’d be extending for another day’s stay. Thing was, moving in and out of hotels would have wasted valuable time as there was the “twilight” period between 12pm checkout and 2pm checkin plus the need to be at the hotels means we cannot be elsewhere. Instead we spent the day at Coex shopping. Samsung Note 10.1 had a long queue. And wife wanted to buy Samsung covers found out that LTE version covers were different from the 3G covers.
By 3pm we were running out of things to shop and went to next door temple. Good trip and after that back to Coex where we ate and nua a bit before heading off to “rainbow” bridge by cab. Think it was near 8pm when we dropped off and realize we were at the wrong bridge. Started walking along back to the correct bridge. Lots of people were walking, running, cycling along the path next to river. Half an hour later, we reached the correct bridge but either the timing was wrong (almost 9.30pm) or something, there were no more rainbow lights. We saw a line of duck and ducklings following it.
A short break and we started walking back, along the bridge for half an hour before reaching civilization and took a cab just two MRT stops away, back to Hotel California.
Group of students doing some orientation stuff
Reached COEX too early, almost everything not open yet
Ooo.. wish I had taken one of these
Ah so that’s where they store the cutlery…
Everything comes with these…
My first real Korean food was bibimbap!
Dumplings became one of my wife’s fav in Korea
Too hot and spicy though. But almost all the food are.
The external of COEX
This was the temple just besides COEX (cross the road)
Back to COEX
Had a meal and rested in the restaurant for a long while
Decided to head to Rainbow Bridge… this is a scene of Korea at night.
Went to wrong bridge so we walked to path to the correct bridge
Don’t know how the chair is still standing at that angle
Saw the ducklings following mama duck!
So cute!
Reaching the next bridge. Had to take a break as we’ve walked about 1.6km from the previous bridge already.
Disappointed as no lighted Rainbow Bridge. In the end gave up and had to walk to nearest MRT status (about 800m away) because there is no transport out of here.
There was a mummy walking with her little girl just in front of us.
Something about bicycle lanes?
Bike shop was closing when we reached here
Errr….
